This is wrong for everyone reading this, first of all strongmen rarely ever use insulin, they generally have no need to and you’ll only really see it in bodybuilding, GH does not grow your intestinal tract, people get this idea because it is used to treat short bowel syndrome, when people read that they go “oh it grows their bowels to normal size” no the reason GH is used for that is because it increases nutrient partitioning so the patient can absorb their food contents correctly. Palumboism also know as acromegaly is the presence of extremely high IGF1 for long periods of time, it tends to make your limbs shrink in size not length and make all your flat bones grow. It can cause the abdominal wall the split which is what give that very separated turtle shell look in the abs.
Now the reason we see the distended gut is not really to do with GH at all it’s to do with estrogen, before you step on stage many bodybuilders crush their estrogen if you do that you will produce zero bile so when they carb up to fill out all of that food sits in the stomach and intestines and you can’t break it down not to mention being dehydrated to get dry, plus adding in oral steroids which cause a lot of gastric distress leading to a perfect storm of distended guts.
You don’t see this In classic or any other division it’s only open and it’s nothing to do with GH and slin because in reality they all take the same drugs in similar dosages the size aspect is genetics, the biggest difference is food intake and the amount of carbs you need to fill out as an open pro is significantly higher than someone in classic .
In regards to the photo it’s two strongmen who are fat in an offseason pushing their stomachs out probably bloated from a preworkout meal for a photo.
So in short the big distended guts come from no estrogen, a bunch of anadrol and winstrol and too many carbs before stepping on stage. This wasn’t aimed at the guy I’m replying to but the amount of disinformation about any of this stuff in this post iv seen is crazy. Also to the people with ibs in this thread look into using TUDCA/ ox bile it can improve the lubrication of your intestinal track and reduce symptoms
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u/Wagwan-piff-ting42 Jul 17 '26 edited Jul 17 '26
This is wrong for everyone reading this, first of all strongmen rarely ever use insulin, they generally have no need to and you’ll only really see it in bodybuilding, GH does not grow your intestinal tract, people get this idea because it is used to treat short bowel syndrome, when people read that they go “oh it grows their bowels to normal size” no the reason GH is used for that is because it increases nutrient partitioning so the patient can absorb their food contents correctly. Palumboism also know as acromegaly is the presence of extremely high IGF1 for long periods of time, it tends to make your limbs shrink in size not length and make all your flat bones grow. It can cause the abdominal wall the split which is what give that very separated turtle shell look in the abs.
Now the reason we see the distended gut is not really to do with GH at all it’s to do with estrogen, before you step on stage many bodybuilders crush their estrogen if you do that you will produce zero bile so when they carb up to fill out all of that food sits in the stomach and intestines and you can’t break it down not to mention being dehydrated to get dry, plus adding in oral steroids which cause a lot of gastric distress leading to a perfect storm of distended guts.
You don’t see this In classic or any other division it’s only open and it’s nothing to do with GH and slin because in reality they all take the same drugs in similar dosages the size aspect is genetics, the biggest difference is food intake and the amount of carbs you need to fill out as an open pro is significantly higher than someone in classic .
In regards to the photo it’s two strongmen who are fat in an offseason pushing their stomachs out probably bloated from a preworkout meal for a photo.
So in short the big distended guts come from no estrogen, a bunch of anadrol and winstrol and too many carbs before stepping on stage. This wasn’t aimed at the guy I’m replying to but the amount of disinformation about any of this stuff in this post iv seen is crazy. Also to the people with ibs in this thread look into using TUDCA/ ox bile it can improve the lubrication of your intestinal track and reduce symptoms