Thank you for weighing in. I really have a hard time believing visceral fat is the first to go. That makes absolutely no sense at all to me. I'm a firm believer in VAT being the issue and directly caused by insulin resistance.
Do you happen to see their bloodwork? Interested in signs of insulin resistance.
Yes insulin resistance over a long period of time, fat cells multipling. making more insulin resisitence, stretching the abdominal wall... GH and insulin contributing and a host of other things.
And before someone asks me to start posting up pics im not going to go back into the EMR and get the DICOM images and then try to blur them out. Not gonna happen. I cant even do that anymore where i am currently at unless is burn a CD from the film library as we dont use GE pacs here. What i will do is next time i see it ill take a shot with my cell phone and crop out the patient info. Ill even label the visceral fat for all to see but its as clear as night and day and i sometimes cant believe we are still having this discussion. I remember ppl guessing about this this 15 years ago and it guess its been perpetuated. Enough already. Yes GH will cause a few % of organ growth but not even enough for me to call it enlarged on a scan and certainly not enough to cause the protruding abdomens we see on stage and in the gym.
As a side note, visceral fat accumulates in many as we age. years of resistance catching up. Its just the bb lifestyle the way it currently is accelerates things. I personally love a CT scan with a ton of visceral fat..i can read it much easier.
To answer your blood work question. We actually did check there blood work sometimes but i was never really looking at glucose, we almost always checked HDL as most of the guys on AAS had HDL's in like the teens or low 20's. We used to then joke about how much there coronary calcium score was. We got pretty good.
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