VipRoids
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This one is going to annoy people, because it annoyed me. I was running secretagogues like everyone else and feeling good about the fat loss, until routine bloodwork showed my fasting glucose creeping in the wrong direction. Nobody had ever told me that was part of the deal.
The mechanism is not exotic. Growth hormone is a counter regulatory hormone. It liberates fatty acids and it makes tissues less responsive to insulin, which is fine in pulses but becomes a problem when you keep forcing GH up for months. Your pancreas compensates by pushing more insulin, a state called hyperinsulinemia, and that keeps your sugar normal while quietly changing your metabolic profile.
What nobody talks about is the lag. You feel leaner, stronger, recovering faster, so the rising glucose gets read as a lab error or a bad night. Then one day it does not recover and the damage has been accumulating without any visible alarm. The real question is whether people are tracking this early enough to catch the shift before it matters, and if not, why glucose gets skipped when everyone obsesses over lipids and liver enzymes.
The mechanism is not exotic. Growth hormone is a counter regulatory hormone. It liberates fatty acids and it makes tissues less responsive to insulin, which is fine in pulses but becomes a problem when you keep forcing GH up for months. Your pancreas compensates by pushing more insulin, a state called hyperinsulinemia, and that keeps your sugar normal while quietly changing your metabolic profile.
What nobody talks about is the lag. You feel leaner, stronger, recovering faster, so the rising glucose gets read as a lab error or a bad night. Then one day it does not recover and the damage has been accumulating without any visible alarm. The real question is whether people are tracking this early enough to catch the shift before it matters, and if not, why glucose gets skipped when everyone obsesses over lipids and liver enzymes.