Cenegenics Nutrition
A diet designed for your individual needs and lifestyle to support age management, fight cancer and boost your immune system. For most individuals a low glycemic index diet is preferable.
The glycemic index is a ranking of carbohydrates based on their immediate effect on blood glucose (blood sugar) levels. It compares foods gram for gram of carbohydrate.
High Glycemic Index: Carbohydrates that breakdown quickly during digestion have the highest glycemic indexes. The blood glucose response is fast and high. This category includes foods such as low fiber bread, pasta, white rice, potatoes, crackers, french fries, etc.
Low Glycemic Index: Carbohydrates that breakdown slowly, releasing glucose gradually into the blood stream, have low glycemic indexes. This category includes foods such as broccoli, spinach, cauliflower, hemp or sprouted grain bread, and high fiber fruits including apples and pears.
A low glycemic index diet is simply one which favors the use of foods with a relatively low glycemic index.
Benefits of a Low Glycemic Diet
- A low glycemic index diet lowers fasting insulin levels which promotes the ability to burn stored fat and improve body composition. Without lowering fasting insulin, weight loss is almost impossible no matter how much exercise you do or how much you restrict your caloric intake.
- Elevated fasting insulin levels are also associated with many chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease. A low glycemic diet lowers fasting insulin levels.
- Elevated fasting insulin is also correlated with elevated CRP which is a measure of your total body inflammation. This correlates with diseases such as cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer's disease, diabetes, arthritis, and cancer.
- Low fasting insulin also results in greater effectiveness of human growth hormone replacement therapy and higher natural IGF1 levels by allowing higher levels of IGF-1 to be produced by the liver, since high insulin levels may reduce IGF1 production through a negative feedback loop.
- Lowering insulin and glucose levels reduces the damage to cellular proteins caused by glycosylation or the binding of excess sugar to cellular proteins as measured by HgA1c. Glycation of proteins, or the sticking of sugar to protein molecules, is thought to be one of the mechanisms of aging.
You will receive instruction on an enjoyable low glycemic index diet as part of your Cenegenics program.