SARAH GETS STRONG: A CROSSFIT/PALEO LOVE AFFAIR *

When it comes to the Paleo Diet, there always seems to be a  discussion of insulin response, insulin sensitivity, insulin levels, etc. I’ve illustrated the importance and definition of insulin and how it relates to the Paleo Diet in my writeup, “CrossFit’s Love Affair with Paleolithic Nutrition: What it is, How it Works, and Why it Rocks Our World”, and have since then found more evidence supporting reasons to keep insulin levels low and controlled.

This study, for example:

• “Researchers at the Buck Institute for Age Research have discovered a novel way in which insulin affects cell metabolism and cell survival. Surprisingly the insulin signaling pathway, which is involved in aging, diabetes and stress response, is active at a deeper level of cell activity than scientists expected.”
  
  
• Buck Institute faculty and lead author Gordon Lithgow, PhD explains that the “new research, in the nematode worm C. elegans, revealed that insulin is also active at the level known as translation, where RNA specifies protein synthesis.”

• “Lithgow says the discovery of this new level of regulation opens a host of opportunities. ‘We are desperate to understand why aging is a risk factor for disease, we want to know why diabetes is associated with aging,’ said Lithgow. ‘Here we have an insulin signaling pathway involved in aging, diabetes and stress response.’”
  
  —- SOURCE: NewsWise.com