Seems to block insulin spikes... I've been testing it for the last month and most of the time when I eat something that would give me an insulin spike..like candy I've eating cottage cheese afterward and there doesn't seem to be a spike..
And also I eat it every night before bed and if I eat the wrong foods it's mainly at dinner time because the wife isn't eating like me..and she fixes simi-healthy foods but not perfect.. But with all this bad food ..I'm losing weight..
Maybe I'm wrong.. but it seems to point to blocking most of the insulin spikes.. Anyone know if this is true ??

What leads you to believe your blocking insulin spikes ? Are you running some kind of blood test or what ?

You ever eat a snickers or other candy and get a rush ??
I don't if I eat cottage cheese on top of it.. Also with the amount of little cheating here and there but I usually eat Cottage cheese after and I'm still losing weight..
I read somewhere that if you eat cottage cheese with Whey or Iso powders that that cottage cheese will make it absorb more slowly.. I just wonder if that is true with any food and cottage cheese.. If it slowed down Sugars absorbtion then you would spike less..
Inquiring Minds wanta-know :)

I think that it has to do with protein being broken down more slowly in the stomach. It may delay the sweets emptying from the stomach.

Yea I just wondered if anyone else noticed it or new of a report about..

I'm not stating that it's fact ..just something I've noticed but could be something else...like hard work at the gym :)

Sorry, not trying to hijack your thread, but I was wondering why I don't ever get a rush after eating something sweet. I don't know if it's made any more, but there used to be a supplement called Ultimate Orange. A guy at work said it made him bounce off the walls and he had to stop taking it. He brought me some and I took it.... and nothing. Why is that?

C man, some people are more carb sensitive then others. I dont get sugar rush's myself (although i LOVE sweets).

As for your questions CASD i have absolutly no idea.

Both protein and fat slow your stomach down, so food enters your small bowel slower, therefore gets absorbed slower. The cottage cheese is acting a bit like a drip-feeder, rather than any changes to your metabolism.

Andrew.

Well then I would assume that if it does slow it down which I beleive, then that could cause less of a spike because it wouldn't be hitting you all at once.. Which would help the insulin from going through the roof which means less fat production..

Well then I would assume that if it does slow it down which I beleive, then that could cause less of a spike because it wouldn't be hitting you all at once.. Which would help the insulin from going through the roof which means less fat production..

If it is working for you go with it, but the interaction you are talking about is somewhat more complex than you might imagine. High GI foods cause an increase in blood glucose - but are not the only way of creating an insulin spike, which can be also casued by eating protein and low GI foods. The increased insulin with some low GI foods (when protein is present) actually lowers blood glucose levels, even if the glucose in the low GI food gets absorbed faster than a high GI food.

It is possible the cottage cheese is slowing down the absorption. It is also possible that the protein + high GI carbs are spiking your insuling but reducing blood glucose over just high GI carbs. Or it is perhaps more likely that the effects of mixing foods on insulin and blood glucose are not well understood and something else is happening. It is not clear to me that spiking insulin is necessarily always a bad thing, even during the day, outside of workouts. Protein with meals significantly increases insulin levels (although I don't know if one would call it a spike). However, 'spiking' it with both carbs and fats in a meal is likely to be really bad and result in fat gain. But with just carbs it might just fill up your depleted glycogen stores faster and get the glucose out of your bloodstream???

I'm not sure I understand the point? Are you saying that eating cottage cheese after junk food lessens the negative effects of the junk food? If that's the case, I'd say it's wishful thinking. Whether or not is slows the absorption of the sugars, I don't know for sure. I suppose it would, but either way, it's a pretty moot point.

Fraid not - a few weeks ago, I was killing some time by testing my blood sugar with my girlfriend's mother's kit. I hadn't eaten anything for about 2.5 hours, so I'm pretty sure my blood sugar was normal. When I tested it pre-meal, it was 84. Then I ate 1/2 cup of 2% cottage cheese and 1tbsp of natty PB (pre-bed snack on a cut.) Then I tested it about 15 minutes later and my blood sugar was at 104. You add in more carbohydrates from candy or whatever, and it'll definetely go up further. It may slow down the digestion of sugary foods, but it by no means "blocks" their rapid absorption into the blood stream and the resulting insulin spike.