VipRoids
Active member
Posting this because it stunned me at the time and I keep thinking more people here are one blood panel away from the same conversation.
I have been using GH secretagogues on and off for a while. Fat loss was there, sleep was great, skin looked better, the usual story. Went in for routine bloodwork, nothing dramatic. The fasting glucose came back higher than it had ever been for me. The tech, completely casually, asked whether I was on anything that raises growth hormone, because she had apparently seen that pattern before.
Here is what I learned digging afterwards. GH is not just a growth hormone, it is a counter regulatory hormone for metabolism. One of its jobs is resisting insulin. In short natural pulses the effect is transient and harmless. Keep nudging GH up artificially for months and the reduced insulin sensitivity stops being a footnote and starts being a feature. Your pancreas answers by secreting more insulin to keep glucose looking normal, which can work for a long time and conceal the shift, until the compensation gets tired.
People in this space post their IGF numbers proudly, compare sleep quality, compare fat loss. Ask how many of them track fasting glucose or insulin alongside, and the room goes quiet. We celebrate the downstream marker of the pathway and ignore the metabolic bill that accumulates upstream.
When you run secretagogues, is glucose on your panel at all, or is the first lab conversation the place you find out, the way I did.
I have been using GH secretagogues on and off for a while. Fat loss was there, sleep was great, skin looked better, the usual story. Went in for routine bloodwork, nothing dramatic. The fasting glucose came back higher than it had ever been for me. The tech, completely casually, asked whether I was on anything that raises growth hormone, because she had apparently seen that pattern before.
Here is what I learned digging afterwards. GH is not just a growth hormone, it is a counter regulatory hormone for metabolism. One of its jobs is resisting insulin. In short natural pulses the effect is transient and harmless. Keep nudging GH up artificially for months and the reduced insulin sensitivity stops being a footnote and starts being a feature. Your pancreas answers by secreting more insulin to keep glucose looking normal, which can work for a long time and conceal the shift, until the compensation gets tired.
People in this space post their IGF numbers proudly, compare sleep quality, compare fat loss. Ask how many of them track fasting glucose or insulin alongside, and the room goes quiet. We celebrate the downstream marker of the pathway and ignore the metabolic bill that accumulates upstream.
When you run secretagogues, is glucose on your panel at all, or is the first lab conversation the place you find out, the way I did.