Eating After Your Workouts

Have you ever rewarded yourself after going to the gym by enjoying a special treat?

Chocolate? Star Bucks? Pizza?

Well as is turns out, what you put in your body after you workout is extremely vital to determine the benefits, if any, you will receive.

In a recent study released from the Journal of Applied Physiology shows that what you eat after your workout can actually influence its positive effects on your body.

What the researchers found was that all exercise sessions increased insulin sensitivity.

This was to be expected, reports Dr. Mercola, as exercise is one of the most powerful tools you have available to normalize your insulin levels. This is important because elevated insulin levels are one of the primary drivers for high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes and weight gain. But the foods you eat are equally important to maintain healthy insulin and leptin levels.

What this means is that you don’t need to starve yourself after a workout, and in all actuality doing so may slow down your metabolism because your body goes into starvation mode.

Take a few minutes and read through Dr. Mercola's review of the study, post- exercise meals and his 5 Principles of Exercise.