5% Rich Piana : Freak Show Natural Muscle Builder

5% Nutrition Freak Show is designed to help you optimize your insulin to use carbohydrates and force them to be used as fuel rather than the body store them. Insulin controls how the cells in your body absorb and utilize nutrients, such as carbs and protein

Optimising Insulin for Improved Glucose Management

Carbs are the ultimate nutrient for growing and getting strong and they are the body’s preferred energy source. However, too many carbs (with too many calories) means that they can potentially get stored as fat. This is where Freak Shown enters the arena as it contains ingredients that help you to manage carbohydrates better, with better insulin sensitivity meaning carbohydrates are more likely to be used to make your muscles full and pumped all day long rather than cause the bloated belly seen all too often on those with impaired insulin sensitivity.

The King of Anabolic Hormones?

While testosterone has often been declared undisoputed heavyweight champion of muscle building hormones, there is a case to be made that it is actually insulin which trumps it. Without insulin, your body's muscles are unable to either perform at their best, nor are they able to reach the pumped appearance bodybuilders want. Without insulin, the body will keep storing and storing the foods it eats, and they won't be used for muscular energy during workout. Some people are more insulin sensitive and this allow them to utilise carbohydrate intake more efficiently. Their bodies instead direct the carbs to muscle, keeping blood sugar low and thus enjoy the performance and phsyique enhancing properties of carbohydrates without the negatives experienced by the average joe.

 For most people, usage of a supplement like Freak Show means they can handle more carbs than normal and by doing so achieve faster gains in the gym.

Freak Show Ingredient Overview

Gymnema Sylvestre – This herbs helps to keep the blood sugar levels stable and helps to pull water into the muscles along with carbohydrates. This helps to make the muscles look fuller and harder (assuming you have muscles in the first place) 

Banaba Powder – This is another natural herbal ingredient which has insulin mimicking properties. As such, it ensures again that for a given carbohydrate load your body more swiftly clears blood glucose and both drives carbohydrate to muscles while also helping with fat loss (as low blood glucose is essential for optimised fat burning).

Berberine - This is a serious glucose disposal agent which seems to have gotten very popular in recent years. Once again, it acts in a similar capacity to the aforementioned herbal ingredients by mimicking the actions of insulin so that even when you ingest a high volume of carbs in a given meal, berberine will help move these carbs out into your muscles quickly.

Cinnamon extract – Better known as a food spice or dessert additive, cinnamon is also a spice which has been shown in numerous studies to help regulate blood sugar levels. 

Bitter melon - Clinical studies have shown that bitter melon can lower levels of blood glucose in the body, as well as increasing serum levels of protein.

Na-R [+] - Alpha Lipoic Acid –  5% Nutrition have elected to go with a more novel form of this ingredient by bonding ALA to a soidum salt. The end result is greater bioavailability and solubility so your ALA goes a lot further than before. 

Chromium – Chromium is an essential trace mineral that is key for insulin metabolism. Chromium has been used for decades to help users optimise body composition thorugh improved carbohydrate management.

Fenugreek – Fenugreek has been used as a testosterone booster, but studies have also shown that is can lower levels of blood glucose.