During the last couple of years there have been several “new” dietary strategies which are supposed to help bodybuilders get extremely lean. One thing these diets have in common is a fairly high protein intake, somewhere in the neighborhood of 25-30% of daily calories. Another common feature is to reduce carbohydrate intake in favor of higher fat intake. Some go as far as to limit carbs to 30-50 grams a day, while providing around 70% of the calories from fat. The fundamental idea behind these approaches is to reduce carb intake to reduce insulin levels. Because insulin is a inhibitor of fat breakdown, the thought is to get reduce insulin in the system so the body can burn more body fat. Sounds great, but it doesnít work for several reasons.

Research has shown that dietary manipulation with special lipids like CapTri can significantly cause an increase in growth hormone levels ó a peak that is reached two hours after ingestion and which is maintained for over three hours. There is evidence that by combining the right foods and supplements you can manipulate the hormones, and this is called dietary endocrinology. Increasing growth hormone has significant benefits. GH acts to channel the protein portion of your meals to muscle tissue for growth and repair, while at the same time shuts down the use of glucose for energy, helping to spare muscle glycogen stores. GH also promotes lipolysis, which is the breakdown of body fat stores. Researchers have found that special lipids, like CapTri®