Thread: jitters PWO?

firstly, what is happening? are my insulin levels crashing due to the insulin spike of my PWO shake?

Most likely
Follow up you PPWO meal sooner.

What do you eat before you workout and how long before?
How long do your workouts go?

The only thing I can't relate is what gear adds to the mix, someone else would have to pipe in on that or perhaps hit up IronMan or post a related question in the anabolics section.

Glucoregulation During and After Exercise in Health and Insulin-Dependent Diabetes. Exercise & Sport Sciences Reviews. 33(1):17-23, January 2005.
Camacho, Raul C.; Galassetti, Pietro; Davis, Stephen N.; Wasserman, David H.

An elegant control system prevents hypoglycemia despite dramatic increments in glucose usage by working muscle. Insulin excess disrupts this control system, leading to hypoglycemia. Recent hypoglycemic episodes blunt the glucoregulatory response to subsequent exercise, and exercise blunts the glucoregulatory response to subsequent insulin excess. These mechanisms of glucoregulatory failure may cause hypoglycemia in insulin-dependent diabetics during and after exercise.

Now you're not diabetic, but clearly, you're experiencing some blood sugar issues postwork shake. I'm going to suggest here that your AAS is acting to upregulate your insulin sensitivity, but its action is being opposed by that glucose load.

Not only does the detrose, maltodex, and banana give you a hit, but so do the roughly 40% of the amino acids (glutamine and other glucogenic amino acids are directly converted to glucose)...and when in excess, will be converted to fatty acids, and its these fatty acids that are causing your insulin sensitivity reversals).

See the proiblem here? You got a couple options. Back off the extra carbs and just use the shake and a fibrous source of protein, or mix your protein powders to slow down release, and time that next meal to avoid feeling bad, because its not a good thing - that blood sugar swing.

Make sense?