Another low-carb myth… busted!
Sometimes, the best thing to do when you go low-carb is keep your mouth shut — because the moment people find out you’re on the protein train, they try to derail you by repeating every myth and outright lie they’ve ever heard about the diet.
And there are plenty of them — like this one that’s bound to come up sooner or later: A low-carb diet is bad for your kidneys.
Hogwash!
If your kidneys could talk, they’d thank you for going on a diet of all-natural animal fats and proteins — because they’ll no longer have to work overtime filtering out all the toxins that come from a modern garbage diet high in processed junk.
It’s the best thing that’s ever happened to your kidneys, and the latest research in theClinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology proves that going low-carb won’t hurt them.
In fact, there were no differences at all in kidney function in any of the 307 patients put onto either a low-fat or low-carb diet. None at all. The low-carb patients had completely normal kidneys in every way — including no problems with filtration rates, kidney stones, and blood electrolytes.
Another myth, busted — but it’s one thing to simply not hurt the kidneys, as the new study found.
It’s quite another to actually help them, and other studies have shown that going low-carb can do just that. In one study last year, the diet actually reversed kidney damage in diabetic mice.
No surprise. Obesity and diabetes are what hurt kidneys — and the healthy animal proteins you’ll enjoy as part of a low-carb diet will shrink your gut, prevent diabetes, protect your heart, and help your kidneys… all at the same time.
Now that’s how you diet.
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Anonymous
Carbohydrates greatly impair fat utilization by raising the hormone insulin. High insulin levels also drive up the hormone cortisol, which tells the body to store energy as fat. When you eat carbohydrates at a meal, fat burning is stalled for the remainder of the day. So if you eat carbohydrates in the morning you are hampering your body’s ability to burn fat right off the bat. If we can keep insulin levels low by avoiding carbohydrates, we can accelerate fat loss. Since insulin sensitivity is at its highest in the morning and lowest in the evening, it would stand to reason that avoiding carbohydrates during the morning and early afternoon, or really as long as possible, would be best for enhancing fat loss.
So to recap, with carb-backloading we are avoiding carbs during the most insulin sensitive parts of the day and thus avoiding interfering with fat loss. We weight train later in the day when our bodies are the least insulin sensitive. The weight training will increase our muscles insulin sensitivity making them primed for glucose uptake, which you will give them via your post-workout carboyhydrates as well as proteins. Since we’ll be doing this carb loading at a time when fat cells are the most dormant, it makes for pretty sound plan.
