Low carbohydrate (carbohydrate), high protein diet programs are the latest diet craze. However, before you jump on the band wagon,
you might want to think about a few things:
1. Reduced carb (ketogenic) diets deplete the healthy glycogen
(the storage form of glucose) stores in your liver and muscles. If you deplete glycogen stores, you also dehydrate,
usually creating the scale to drop drastically in the very first week or 2 of the diet. This is generally interpreted as
weight loss when
it's actually mostly from dehydration and muscle loss. By the
way, this is one of the reasons that low carbohydrate diets are extremely
popular in the moment - there's a rapid initial, but deceptive fall of scale weight.
Glycogenesis (formation of glycogen) occurs in the liver and
muscles when adequate quantities of carbohydrates are consumed - hardly any of this happens on a low carb diet.
Glycogenolysis (breakdown of glycogen) occurs when glycogen is broken down to develop glucose for use as fuel.
2. Depletion of muscle glycogen causes you to fatigue easily,
and makes exercise and movement uncomfortable. Research
indicates that muscle mass fatigue increases in just about direct proportion to the rate of depletion of muscle mass glycogen. Bottom
line is you don't feel energetic and you exercise and move
less (often without realizing it) which isn't perfect for caloric expenditure and basal metabolic rate (metabolism).
3. Depletion of muscle tissue glycogen causes muscle atrophy (loss
of muscle). This occurs as muscle glycogen (broken
down to glucose) is the fuel of choice for the muscle during movement. There's often a fuel mix, but with no muscle
glycogen, the muscle fibers that agreement, while resting to
maintain muscle tone, contract less when glycogen isn't immediately offered in the muscle mass. Depletion of muscle
glycogen also causes you to work out and move under
normal which leads to muscle loss as well as the inability to maintain sufficient muscle tone.
Also, in the absence of sufficient carbs for gas, the human body at first uses protein (muscle) and fat. the initial
phase of muscle depletion is rapid, caused by the use of
easily accessed muscle protein for alpilean pills (
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excess protein doesn't prevent this because there is a caloric deficit.
When insulin levels are chronically very low as they may
be in suprisingly low carb diet programs, catabolism (breakdown) of muscle mass protein increases, and protein synthesis stops.