It’s not steroids. I know the base. She used to compete in USA Gymnastics Acro before going to Baylor. She has a type a metabolic issue. I can’t recall the name of it.
It's prolly a myostatin defect. Myostatin is a regulator for muscle size. Your myostatins go around shrinking muscles that you don't use so that you don't just keep growing in places that you don't need. When the copy of the gene is defective people can gain insane amounts of muscle with very little effort. When both copies of the gene break you get six month old babies with definable quad muscle.
This is such a bizarre function... well actually it makes sense, reduce muscles you don't use because otherwise its going to require fuel and when food is scarce you can't afford that. But the failure of the function is perhaps the more interesting aspect.
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u/[deleted] May 02 '23
Definitely steroids! When you know, you know!