Gut Distention and Growth Hormone
Today, roughly one-third of top bodybuilders are sporting what is commonly referred to as the “GH gut”. Their midsection is distended, giving them a pregnant look. Many blame the current decline of popularity of bodybuilding upon these guts, and blame the guts upon steroid use. After all, it was only in the last 15 years that these “roid guts” started becoming prevalent. At the same time, it was only in the last 15 years that drugs like growth hormone, insulin, and IGF-1 arrived on the scene. Therefore many bodybuilding fans equate the two in a cause-effect relationship.
It’s true that growth hormone and insulin do cause everything to grow. And that means everything. Bones, muscle tissue, and everything else in the human body begins growing once again. It does lead to the eventuality that the intestines are likely growing too, which could lead to distention.
Further investigation leads to another question. It’s safe to assume, based upon the overall growth of most professional bodybuilders in the past 15 years, that most professional bodybuilders are using some new combination of the aforementioned GH, insulin, and IGF-1. Yet only about one-third of them are displaying the trademarked protruding midsection. They’re all growing, but only a third of them are growing in the midsection. How can this be possible?
As the epidemic became more obvious, bodybuilders stopped living in denial and began coming to terms with both the causes and effects of this new stomach distention. In the beginning, they just claimed they added ‘too much size’, and vowed to ‘get the stomach under control this year’. The fact of the matter is, the use of these new hormones weren’t causing this phenomenon alone, and they knew it. In order for GH and the other compounds to work, the bodybuilder had to consume a great deal of additional calories. After all, bodybuilders were suddenly walking onstage 30 pounds heavier than they were two years ago. This required a lot of drugs, to be sure. But it also required a tremendous amount of food – way above and beyond what they had been eating. If the bodybuilder had been eating 6,000 calories per day to reach his 250-pound bodyweight, how many calories did he require to reach 280 pounds?
It turns out the vast majority of blame for the increase in midsection size among professional bodybuilders was due to large amounts of food being consumed many times per day. These men were eating full meals, 8 to 10 or 12 times per day. This was leading to a stretching out of the internal fascia, as well as the connective tissue of the abdomen – something that cannot be “undone”.
Today, bodybuilders are beginning to combat this problem through more sensible eating. They are consuming fewer calories, even if it means scaling back the size they are able to attain. They are eating smaller meals, consisting of fewer fats, which leads to faster digestion. They are recognizing the fact that bigger isn’t always better, and there is a point of diminishing returns when it comes to caloric intake. Their gains are taking longer to achieve, but their midsections are staying relatively intact in the process.
Dane Fletcher
http://www.articlesbase.com/alternative-medicine-articles/gut-distention-and-growth-hormone-740761.html
Gut Distention and Growth Hormone
Today, roughly one-third of top bodybuilders are sporting what is commonly referred to as the “GH gut”. Their midsection is distended, giving them a pregnant look. Many blame the current decline of popularity of bodybuilding upon these guts, and blame the guts upon steroid use. After all, it was only in the last 15 years that these “roid guts” started becoming prevalent. At the same time, it was only in the last 15 years that drugs like growth hormone, insulin, and IGF-1 arrived on the scene. Therefore many bodybuilding fans equate the two in a cause-effect relationship.
It’s true that growth hormone and insulin do cause everything to grow. And that means everything. Bones, muscle tissue, and everything else in the human body begins growing once again. It does lead to the eventuality that the intestines are likely growing too, which could lead to distention.
Further investigation leads to another question. It’s safe to assume, based upon the overall growth of most professional bodybuilders in the past 15 years, that most professional bodybuilders are using some new combination of the aforementioned GH, insulin, and IGF-1. Yet only about one-third of them are displaying the trademarked protruding midsection. They’re all growing, but only a third of them are growing in the midsection. How can this be possible?
As the epidemic became more obvious, bodybuilders stopped living in denial and began coming to terms with both the causes and effects of this new stomach distention. In the beginning, they just claimed they added ‘too much size’, and vowed to ‘get the stomach under control this year’. The fact of the matter is, the use of these new hormones weren’t causing this phenomenon alone, and they knew it. In order for GH and the other compounds to work, the bodybuilder had to consume a great deal of additional calories. After all, bodybuilders were suddenly walking onstage 30 pounds heavier than they were two years ago. This required a lot of drugs, to be sure. But it also required a tremendous amount of food – way above and beyond what they had been eating. If the bodybuilder had been eating 6,000 calories per day to reach his 250-pound bodyweight, how many calories did he require to reach 280 pounds?
It turns out the vast majority of blame for the increase in midsection size among professional bodybuilders was due to large amounts of food being consumed many times per day. These men were eating full meals, 8 to 10 or 12 times per day. This was leading to a stretching out of the internal fascia, as well as the connective tissue of the abdomen – something that cannot be “undone”.
Today, bodybuilders are beginning to combat this problem through more sensible eating. They are consuming fewer calories, even if it means scaling back the size they are able to attain. They are eating smaller meals, consisting of fewer fats, which leads to faster digestion. They are recognizing the fact that bigger isn’t always better, and there is a point of diminishing returns when it comes to caloric intake. Their gains are taking longer to achieve, but their midsections are staying relatively intact in the process.
Dane Fletcher
http://www.articlesbase.com/alternative-medicine-articles/gut-distention-and-growth-hormone-740761.html
Today, roughly one-third of top bodybuilders are sporting what is commonly referred to as the “GH gut”. Their midsection is distended, giving them a pregnant look. Many blame the current decline of popularity of bodybuilding upon these guts, and blame the guts upon steroid use. After all, it was only in the last 15 years that these “roid guts” started becoming prevalent. At the same time, it was only in the last 15 years that drugs like growth hormone, insulin, and IGF-1 arrived on the scene. Therefore many bodybuilding fans equate the two in a cause-effect relationship.
It’s true that growth hormone and insulin do cause everything to grow. And that means everything. Bones, muscle tissue, and everything else in the human body begins growing once again. It does lead to the eventuality that the intestines are likely growing too, which could lead to distention.
Further investigation leads to another question. It’s safe to assume, based upon the overall growth of most professional bodybuilders in the past 15 years, that most professional bodybuilders are using some new combination of the aforementioned GH, insulin, and IGF-1. Yet only about one-third of them are displaying the trademarked protruding midsection. They’re all growing, but only a third of them are growing in the midsection. How can this be possible?
As the epidemic became more obvious, bodybuilders stopped living in denial and began coming to terms with both the causes and effects of this new stomach distention. In the beginning, they just claimed they added ‘too much size’, and vowed to ‘get the stomach under control this year’. The fact of the matter is, the use of these new hormones weren’t causing this phenomenon alone, and they knew it. In order for GH and the other compounds to work, the bodybuilder had to consume a great deal of additional calories. After all, bodybuilders were suddenly walking onstage 30 pounds heavier than they were two years ago. This required a lot of drugs, to be sure. But it also required a tremendous amount of food – way above and beyond what they had been eating. If the bodybuilder had been eating 6,000 calories per day to reach his 250-pound bodyweight, how many calories did he require to reach 280 pounds?
It turns out the vast majority of blame for the increase in midsection size among professional bodybuilders was due to large amounts of food being consumed many times per day. These men were eating full meals, 8 to 10 or 12 times per day. This was leading to a stretching out of the internal fascia, as well as the connective tissue of the abdomen – something that cannot be “undone”.
Today, bodybuilders are beginning to combat this problem through more sensible eating. They are consuming fewer calories, even if it means scaling back the size they are able to attain. They are eating smaller meals, consisting of fewer fats, which leads to faster digestion. They are recognizing the fact that bigger isn’t always better, and there is a point of diminishing returns when it comes to caloric intake. Their gains are taking longer to achieve, but their midsections are staying relatively intact in the process.
