HGH, Slin, & Blood Glucose Monitoring

[Dimensionx]

Ok, so I mentioned this a while back, since have gone and bought a Glucose monitor.

What I am wondering is what is the optimum Blood Sugar levels for a lifter, specifically what is a "target" range to shoot for when taking say, 2.25IU's of GH and say 10IU's of Humalog together, twice a day, in the morning and after the gym.

A "Normal" blood sugar level is typically below 120. Mine drop's to around 70-80 regularly, below 70 and I start knowing it from the Hypo symptoms that just start to come on.

Now, following the recommended 10G of Carbs for each IU of Slin seems SOOOO inappropriate for doing Slin. EVERYONE is different, and process sugar differently. Now, when using Slin your not trying to get your natural insulin production "spiked" with sugar to cram the Nutrients into your muscle cells, after all we are shooting a good amount of it ourselves.

So, based on this trying out the 10g of carbs for each IU of slin and I kick it up to ~170ish on the meter. That's not really a "Bad" number for an "after meal" reading. But, it seems to me that if I do not suffer Hypo symptom's until below 70 then I could eliminate some carbs with my slin use while cutting.

Does it not make more since to have your blood sugars stay ~100 when cutting? If they dip then you pop some glucose tabs. In NO way am I suggesting that everyone try this, I'm just curious why since we are taking this possible risk we are not doing accurate research and sharing it with one another.

Any opinions?

Shawn

[##spiderbaby##]

Dimensionx, good questions. I want to know the answers myself. If you dont mind i will post this at another site and hopefully we can get some consensus.

[Dimensionx]

It's on AR as well, and left a mention for IronMaster as he is one of the most knowledgable people I know about it.

Shawn

[AnotherUser]

I was actually contemplating the same thing today. I've been using 8 I.U.'s of Humalog after workouts, and today I dropped the carb intake post workout to only about 60g. I personally will keep my initial meal to ~60g of carbs, and then ~40g every hour after that for about 3 hours. Remember that the real spike comes at the 2nd hour. But anyway, one thing to think about:

The carbs serve 2 purposes that I know of:

1) They prevent hypoglycemia

2) They are shuttled into your muscles and stored as glycogen, the storage form of glucose. Every glycogen molecule stores x number of water molecules with it (don't recall exactly how many). So basically, you are superhydrating your muscles which creates an anabolic environment for them to grow. It also makes your muscles look fuller.

So don't cut yourself short on the carbs!

[Dimensionx]

Good point:-).