Insulin for Bodybuilders: Effects, Uses, and Risks

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Bodybuilding is an extreme sport in which higher level competitors often go to great lengths to excel.

While some prefer to stick to natural methods of building muscle, others turn to pharmaceuticals such as anabolic androgenic steroids and insulin.

Though people traditionally use insulin only in medical contexts for diabetes, bodybuilders often exploit it for muscle-building purposes. They use it to cause muscles to absorb nutrients quickly after a workout.

This article details how some people use insulin in bodybuilding and describes its effects and potentially serious side effects.

Insulin is a peptide hormone produced in the cells of your pancreas, which is an organ located in your abdomen just below your liver (1
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