My belief used to be all this GH and insulin use is why we're seeing these big abdomens on not

just bodybuilders, but also on athletes.

So, you know, you'll see track and field athletes who are insanely muscular, insanely lean,

but they have huge protruding abdomens that do not appear to be fat.

Because you still see a six-pack ripped on top of it, but from the side, they look pregnant.

And again, the thinking was, well, is this just organomegaly, right?

Are there organs just getting bigger?

Now, you've talked a little bit about an alternative hypothesis, right?

Yeah, I think it is multifactorial, but there is seemingly, I think the largest cause of it now is significant distension caused by the excessive food intake and the result of significant

gastrointestinal issues that result from the absurd diet models because to get that many calories

and get that much protein carbs often, especially peri workout when you're using insulin and you

need to make sure you don't go hypoglycemic in your workout, they'll be slamming

like, you know, 100 to 200 gram shakes that have hydrolyzed way in the branch cyclic dextrin plus

aminos plus creatine plus glutamine plus this. And oftentimes they're essentially in a state of, like, I'm sure you've

had a cheat day where your stomach was like incomparable to, you know, days when you're fasting,

for example, it's a massive difference. You can't, you could fasting, you could do a vacuum and see,

you know, completely invert your stomach almost versus when you have a giant

cheap day and just go off the rails, you couldn't keep your stomach in for the life of you.

You have to be flexing just to keep it not looking like you have a gut when you're sitting

down.

That is a perpetual state of reality for bodybuilders who weigh that much to sustain that food intake

and the physiques that they have because it's not a

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