10-09-2011, 10:17 AM
It's really important for me to know what exactly GR does to insulin. I want to keep the insulin level in my blood low, to slim my waist. The FG I use immediately increases insulin:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.10...V/abstract
Because both FG and GR increase insulin sensitivity, in the end, the pancreas will shoot less insulin into the blood stream when blood sugar rises. But it would be nice if I could get there without the immediate insulin increases from FG.
Most of the GR work done was on mice. A good summary is in this excellent overview of cortisol and insulin effects on weight loss:
http://www.vrp.com/stress/weight-loss-co...ted-pounds
Goat's rue helped all mice lose weight. But only in obese mice, insulin decreased after 28 days.
Since my Body Mass Index (BMI) is still just above 25, I'm technically obese. So I trust GR will decrease my insulin over time.
I drank all of my GR tea yesterday night, and this morning I woke up with a good swelling, and looking for things around the house to clean. So my prolactin is high enough when I take 3,000 mg FG at noon, and 6 cups of GR tea at night. Libido is OK, so I have enough progesterone from the FG, and not too much prolactin. My libido is normally low because of the anti-androgen in hops.
So I plan to make a whole pot of GR tea for today from 1,000 mg. And decrease FG to 2,000 mg. I may end up replacing all FG with GR, but that would leave me without a source of progesterone. But then I can still switch to FN seed tea for progesterone. I still have about 200 g of powdered FN seed here
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.10...V/abstract
Because both FG and GR increase insulin sensitivity, in the end, the pancreas will shoot less insulin into the blood stream when blood sugar rises. But it would be nice if I could get there without the immediate insulin increases from FG.
Most of the GR work done was on mice. A good summary is in this excellent overview of cortisol and insulin effects on weight loss:
http://www.vrp.com/stress/weight-loss-co...ted-pounds
Goat's rue helped all mice lose weight. But only in obese mice, insulin decreased after 28 days.
Since my Body Mass Index (BMI) is still just above 25, I'm technically obese. So I trust GR will decrease my insulin over time.
I drank all of my GR tea yesterday night, and this morning I woke up with a good swelling, and looking for things around the house to clean. So my prolactin is high enough when I take 3,000 mg FG at noon, and 6 cups of GR tea at night. Libido is OK, so I have enough progesterone from the FG, and not too much prolactin. My libido is normally low because of the anti-androgen in hops.
So I plan to make a whole pot of GR tea for today from 1,000 mg. And decrease FG to 2,000 mg. I may end up replacing all FG with GR, but that would leave me without a source of progesterone. But then I can still switch to FN seed tea for progesterone. I still have about 200 g of powdered FN seed here