It then draws fluid to it (blood), just like any other muscle being worked or stretched. The carbing-up, however, is not.Īll that abdominal muscle is now being stretched because it's so full. This slows gastric emptying and also leaves little water to make the desired glycogen (glycogen is three parts water to one of glucose), so the whole digestive process is slowed. Why? Because he's probably not taking in sodium and is on diuretics. Especially if the prep guru in charge is promoting a lot of carbs pre contest.Ī dehydrated bodybuilder wishing to saturate his muscles with the glycogen derived from hundreds of calories of rice and potatoes is going to have a hell of a time of it. Stuffing food into that big bag of muscle also adds exponentially to the challenge a bodybuilder faces. More muscle mass also includes abdominal muscle mass. Muscle mass is at an all time high today, more so than in the '80s and '90s, with just a small handful of exceptions. That's not entirely true, but it's true enough to toss a wrench in the gears of the current argument. There's a ton of arguing going on about how the '80s and early '90s bodybuilders didn't have distended guts even though they were using insulin and Gh.
So, there's a lot of muscle, and it sticks out. How is a 270 pound guy at 5'10" going have the little trim waist of a bodybuilder who weighs 230 at that height? He's not.
That means today's mega-huge bodybuilders have to deal with a mega-huge amount of abdominal muscle.Īnd therein lies the rub. The abdomen is covered in muscle that grows right along with all the other muscles, depending on genetics and how it's trained. Gh and insulin, not to mention steroids, androgens, anti-cortisol drugs, diet, training supplements, etc., contribute to muscle growth. Muscle growth is something we can all get behind. Someone show me a noncancerous gall bladder the size of cantaloupe and I may change my mind, but not until then. But, once again, we hear of no such cases.ĭon't put too much credence into uncontrolled organ hypertrophy. But with the reported use of Gh and insulin being what it is, there should be wild reports of 12 pound spleens and eight foot aortas. There is little doubt that the concomitant correct use of Gh and insulin causes muscle to grow. So, really, how does one justify blaming directly Gh or insulin? The only time we ever hear of abdominal distention associated with Gh or insulin use is during post-contest commentary by internet experts.īy virtue of omission, we can pretty well see that there's no abdominal distention associated with pharmacological doses of Gh and insulin, which, in most cases, greatly exceed the doses competitive bodybuilders commonly use.
In fact, even the bodybuilding sites publishing articles on Gh and insulin use don't warn of abdominal distention. But let's call it 18 IU for argument's sake.ĭoctors prescribing Gh or insulin don't tell their patients that they'll experience radical abdominal distention with its use. I see doses in the 4-12 range daily as being more common.
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As much as you'd like to believe they do, top pro bodybuilders do not typically do more than that. In the case of Gh, common doses in off-label muscle wasting cases range from 9-18 IU a day.
Even double that is still less than many diabetics (the people for whom insulin was originally invented) who take as much as 50-60 units a day, even more for the obese. In the case of insulin, a bodybuilder using insulin correctly is hopefully not taking more than 10-12 units before and after he trains. So, the evidence we must rely on is empirical. There are just as many published, peer reviewed, university studies indicating that Gh causes abdominal distention as there are those that prove insulin does – ZERO. But what is so widely rumored to be the cause might not necessarily be so. You've heard it called "growth hormone gut," "slin-gut," "roid belly," etc.
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