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GH Gut In Bodybuilding – What Causes It?

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Health & Fitness, Science, Education, Self-improvement

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πŸ—“οΈ 21 March 2017

⏱️ 15 minutes

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There is a belief that is widespread in the bodybuilding community that using HGH, MK-677, or other GH releasing peptides will cause your intestines to grow, start protruding outwards, consequently giving a very unaesthetic distended look of the abdominals known as GH gut.…

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0:00.0

So, guys, Derek, moreplace, more dates.com.

0:02.0

Today we're going to be talking about what I think is the cause of GH gut and bodybuilding.

0:07.3

And my hypothesis may be a bit different than the traditional, you know, it's all the HGH that grows their organs because that's not necessarily the case.

0:18.5

So I'm going to delve into it with you guys and to lay out what I think exactly is going on.

0:23.0

So there's a belief that is widespread in the bodybuilding community that using HGH-MK-677 or other GH releasing peptides is going to cause your intestines to grow, start protruding outwards and consequently give give a very un-aesthetic distended look

0:40.1

of the abdominals and it's called GH gut or bubble gut.

0:44.0

And I just want to lay out my hypothesis

0:47.3

on exactly what I think is going on here.

0:49.4

Increased GH levels will not push organs against the stomach.

0:53.1

While increased GH levels can cause parts of your

0:55.7

body to grow bigger, mostly your bones, the amount of GH it would take to cause your intestines to grow

1:01.1

so much that they would literally be pushing your stomach wall outwards is not anything anybody is

1:08.2

using. Bones and tendons in the body may grow fairly substantially with extreme dosages of GH.

1:13.7

We see that all the time.

1:14.8

But intestines growing to the point of nearly exploding out of the abdominal wall is not what's going on here.

1:21.6

The true cause of GH gut, in my opinion, is typically the overconsumption of food with carbohydrates in particular being the

1:29.9

main macronutrient responsible and on top of that GH abuse can also indirectly cause GH gut

1:37.1

but the mechanism by which it causes it is much different than what most believe in my opinion

1:42.0

it's not uncommon for a large bodybuilder to be taking in upwards of nearly 1,000 grams of carbs a day,

1:48.3

especially when a bodybuilder is trying to gain more size.

1:50.5

They need to increase their caloric intake accordingly,

1:52.8

which means eating more carbs even after they've already been eating significantly more than the body needs.

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