Postprandial insulin signaling aids kidney sodium and potassium retention, signals liver glutathione production, keeps free sex hormones down, supports normal thyroid hormone levels, and improves athletic recovery.

“postprandial insulin signaling gets a really bad wrap a really bad wrap in a lot of Keto communities but it's so good for us we need it at the level of the kidneys to hang on to sodium and potassium and other electrolytes we need it to signal to the liver to make enough glutathione this master an oxin in the human body we know that insulin signaling increases glutathione this has been shown in ICU patients we know that we need insulin at some level to keep sex hormone binding globulin down so we have free hormones especially testosterone for men we know that we need some insulin signaling for our thyroid hormones to be normal and we know that in athletes if you give them some carbohydrates their recovery post exercise is better in terms of the free testosterone to cortisol ratio and in terms of immune function”