Gain Muscle & Lose Fat: Breakthrough News For CapTri Users
Bulletin No. 44, Gain Muscle & Lose Fat: Breakthrough News For CapTri Users
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If there were a nutritional supplement that could dramatically and naturally elevate your levels of growth, would you want to take it?
You bet you would! So hold onto your hat, we’ve got some exciting news that may change the way you think about your diet and the kinds of supplements you use.
Researchers in Spain have released a study proving that dietary manipulation with special lipids, like CapTri, can cause more than a 900 percent increase in growth hormone levelsa peak that is reached two hours after ingestion and is maintained for over three hours (1).
Just think: If you’re eating every two or three hours like you should be on the Parrillo Nutrition Program and supplementing with CapTri®, you can keep your growth hormone levels naturally elevated each day. So that’s why CapTri®, a powerful medium chain triglyceride oil formulated by Parrillo Performance, works so well when used in conjunction with proper nutrition. But you’re probably saying, “Hold on, isn’t CapTri a supplement for adding calories to your diet or replacing a portion of carbohydrates when dieting?” Yes, you’re right, but there’s even a bigger picture to look at when using CapTri as part of your nutrition program.
There is evidence that by combining the right foods and supplements you can actually manipulate the body’s hormones. This is called “Dietary Endocrinology” and it’s an area we’ve been working in for years. But now there’s research to prove that this method of regulating the hormones does work and is being used in he field of medicine as well.
So let’s find out more about how CapTri® can help increase your body’s ability to regulate it’s own hormones. So let’s start with growth hormone.
In case you’re not familiar with the physiological benefits of increasing GH levels, let’s review them. Growth hormone acts to channel the protein portion of your meals to muscle tissue for growth and repair of tissues. It does this by increasing nitrogen retention, meaning that more of the protein you eat is turned into metabolically active muscle tissue instead of being broken down and excreted as waste products in the urine. In effect, GH switches on the cellular machinery that makes muscle proteins.
At the same time, it shuts down the use of glucose for energy, helping to spare muscle glycogen stores. GH literally shifts the body from a carbohydrate-burning mode into the fat-burning mode. By sparing muscle glycogen, GH helps yield more energy for muscle-building workouts.
What’s more, GH promotes fat burning. This powerful hormone stimulates “lipolysis,” which is the breakdown of body fat stores. Fat is released from storage tissues into the bloodstream and is then taken up by the cells and burned for energy.
Also, the researchers found that the special lipids did not increase blood glucose levels, so there’s no danger of a hypoglycemic reaction. Translated to real-world nutrition, here’s what that means to you: By combining CapTri with slow-release, high-fiber carbohydrates as recommended in the Parrillo Nutrition Program, you should be able to an increase in insulin with very little increase in blood glucose. In theory, this lets you have the muscle-building action of GH and insulin, without suffering the fat-building activity that usually accompanies insulin.
The practice of using food and nutritional supplements like CapTri to manipulate body hormones, called “dietary endocrinology,” was developed by Dr. Barry Sears. Dietary endocrinology asserts that food, when properly used, can be as powerful as drugs in controlling the body. In fact, Dr. Sears is conducting research using foods as replacement for drugs in treatment of life-threatening illnesses such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease (2).
Along parallel lines, Parrillo Performance is researching the use of foods to substitute for drugs in bodybuilding and other sports. The results on both fronts have been impressive, particularly the results achieved when CapTri is added to one’s diet. Frankly, I believe that during the next century, the science of dietary endocrinology with revolutionize the fields of medicine and athletics.
In truth, though, this is happening today. I see it with the people following the our program. How then can you fast-forward yourself into the next century of nutrition, today?
First, understand that the flow of dietary energy to either fat stores or muscle is controlled by hormones. So is the rate of fat burning. Thanks to research, we already know that the hormones of greatest importance to bodybuilders and athletes can be largely controlled by diet or exercise. Proper diet and exercise can alter the levels of key hormones in your bloodstream, and these hormones act as the triggers for muscle growth and fat loss.
The three most important hormones controlled muscle growth and fat loss are insulin, glucagon and GH. All are responsive to diet, and of particular importance is GH because of its unique ability to stimulate muscle growth and fat loss at the same time.
You’ve just seen how GH works its magic. But what about insulin and glucagon? Where do they fit into the picture?
At the cellular level, insulin binds to the glucose transporter present on cell membranes so that glucose can be ferried into cells to be burned as fuel or stored as glycogen. Insulin also does two other things: It drives amino acids into cells and stimulates protein synthesis both powerful and anabolic actions (3). Insulin, however, is a double-edged sword because it acts to increase fat synthesis and fat storage (3). Fortunately, this fat-storing activity of insulin is kept in check by glucagon. The primary action of glucagon is to trigger the breakdown of fat and glycogen for energy. The key is to keep insulin and glucagon in proper balance to get the muscle-building effect of insulin and the fat-burning effect of glucagon. As it turns out, the ratio of insulin to glucagon is a consequence of the ratio of carbohydrate to protein in the diet (2,4). Furthermore, additional research has shown that the insulin to glucagon ratio is a major determinant of the set pointthe amount of fat your body is programmed to carry (5). Too much insulin will make you fat, while more glucagon will make you lean, all on the same number of calories (5). In simple terms, this means that not only the number of calories, but the type of calories, will determine whether you get fat or lean.
Precise dietary control of insulin and glucagon through manipulation of the carbohydrate and protein ratios, plus the use of CapTri, is no doubt why people have such great success on the Parrillo Performance Nutrition Program. Often I see people eating more calories on our diet than they diet before, yet they’re still losing fat at a rapid rate. Our program is structured to cause a hormonal response in your body that turns on the muscle-building and fat-burning metabolic pathways. Dietary energy is thus channeled toward muscle-building, while causing the body to use stored fat for energy.
Besides protein and carbohydrate, your other major source of calories is fat. Dr. Sears, in his work in dietary endocrinology recommends a ratio of 30 percent protein, 40 percent carbohydrate and 30 percent fat (as energy) for optimal muscle growth and fat loss. These are essentially the same numbers we use in our Nutrition Manual, which contains detailed instructions on how to adjust this ratio to meet your individual needs.
An important difference, however, is that we have found a tremendous increase in fat loss when CapTri® is used in place of regular oils and fats. CapTri simply works differently than conventional fats. It is burned very rapidly, more like a carbohydrate than a fat. Conventional fats go through a complicated metabolic pathway, requiring incorporation into protein substances called chylomicrons which transport through the lymphatic system. Furthermore, before conventional fat can be burned as fuel, it must be carried into the mitochondria (cellular furnaces) by a special transport system called the carnitine shuttle. This is the reason why conventional fat is so readily stored as body fat: the carnitine shuttle is not activated as long as carbohydrates are available for use as energy. You basically have to use up all your blood sugar before fat-burning will proceed at a significant rate.
CapTri, on the other hand, has a specially designed molecular structure that lets it bypass these steps that limit the burning rate of regular fats. CapTri is absorbed directly into the bloodstream as rapidly as glucose, without going through the lymphatic system (6). Even more impressive, CapTri directly enters the mitochondria and is immediately burned as fuel, not needing to ride through on the carnitine shuttle (6). Finally, CapTri has virtually no tendency to be stored as body fat, in marked contrast to other fats and oils (6).
Add those beneficial actions to the ability of CapTri to elevate GH levels, and you’ve got a very potent supplement. CapTri and the Parrillo Performance Nutrition Program are like a metabolic switch, that, when flipped on, lets you turn on muscle growth and fat-burning at the same time. Let’s face it, if foods and nutritional supplements like CapTri can exert such a powerful effect on the body, then who needs drugs? Dietary endocrinology is the future of sports nutrition, and the future is here at Parrillo Performance.
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References
1. Valls E, Herrera F, Diaz M, Barreiro P, and Valls A. Modification in plasmatic insulin and growth hormone induced by medium chain triglycerides. Span. Ana. Ped. 11: 675-682, 1978.
2. Sears, B. Essential fatty acids and dietary endocrinology: A hypothesis for cardiovascular treatment. Journal of Advancement in Medicine. 6: 211-224, 1993.
3. Guyton AC. Textbook of Medical Physiology. W.B. Saunders, 1991.
4. Westphal SA, Gannon MC, Nuttall FQ. Metabolic response to glucose ingested with various amounts of protein. Am. J. of Clin. Nutr. 52: 267-272, 1990.
5. de Castro JM, Paulin SK and DeLugas GM. Insulin and glucagon as determinants of body weight set point and microregulation in rats. J. Comp. Physiol. Physcol. 92: 571-579, 1978.
6. Bach AC and Babayan VK. Medium chain triglycerides: an update. Am. J. Clin Nutr. 36: 950-962, 1982.
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