Type 1 diabetic 💉 interested in nutrition, metabolism, bodybuilding, and diabetes management. Lost 160lbs+ 💪 - Advocate for normal blood sugars.
Joined February 2022
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When I started getting healthy ~5 years ago, I wasn’t trying to be a bodybuilder. I just wanted to lose weight and feel… normal.
I was tired of being the fat guy my whole life.
My Type 1 diabetes was out of control and wiping me out physically, mentally, and emotionally.
Then one day I decided to change for good. The old Mike was done.
Somewhere along the way, I fell in love with the process of training and nutrition. It became part of who I am.
What started as white knuckle willpower turned into ironclad discipline.
In the process, I got my T1D under control. Consistent sub-5% A1Cs. No more rollercoaster blood sugars. No more debilitating hypoglycemic seizures...
People think T1D makes this impossible. It doesn’t. If anything, it forces you to be more precise, more consistent, more accountable.
T1Ds with grit make great bodybuilders. We’re already students of our own metabolism. We understand how insulin, food, and training all interact and we live it every day.
Can't wait to take the stage again this year and show how I've grown as a competitor, as a T1D, and as a person.
#type1diabetes #t1d #npc #bodybuilding #fitnessjourney #contestprep
Cause of death isnt out yet, but collapses like this during contest prep are most often cardiac arrhythmias triggered by severe electrolyte imbalances from diuretics and aggressive water/sodium manipulation.
Stay the fuck away from diuretics.
RIP
Bodybuilder Mateusz Chmura Dies at 33 After Collapsing on Stage During Competition
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Michael Fitzpatrick retweeted
In today’s episode of exploiting diabetics for profit:
Dexcom holds our life-sustaining CGMs and years of our health data hostage to force us to waive our constitutional right to a jury trial and agree to mandatory arbitration and a class action waiver in their favor.
Hey @dexcom NOT OK! In fact it is horseshit! Requiring people with diabetes to immediately accept new terms (including mandatory arbitration and a class-action waiver) or immediately lose access to glucose readings (medical device) is unacceptable. Patients should not have to surrender legal rights and device privacy to access their own medical data. @statnews
Michael Fitzpatrick retweeted
Hey @dexcom NOT OK! In fact it is horseshit! Requiring people with diabetes to immediately accept new terms (including mandatory arbitration and a class-action waiver) or immediately lose access to glucose readings (medical device) is unacceptable. Patients should not have to surrender legal rights and device privacy to access their own medical data. @statnews
Michael Fitzpatrick retweeted
New home gym hack just dropped: the hack squat chest supported row.
It's effectively a poor man's MegaMass Linear Row with the ability to change out handles and load as heavy as you'd like.
Versatility is king and this could be a nice movement addition to your training without adding any new equipment.
This is the $299 home gym version of the absolutely ELITE MegaMass Linear Row that's all over the internet.
It's by a budget brand called Mikolo and can be found at Walmart.
It uses 12 and 14-gauge steel, takes quite a bit of assembly, but is on linear guide rods and has a similar feel with many hand positions as the real McCoy.
I prefer a T-Bar row because of the changing strength curve, but these feel extremely locked in and they often take up less space in a home gym.
Michael Fitzpatrick retweeted
Hi @grok since people don’t want to believe me, why don’t you tell them how much bullshit this claim is 🙂
Brussels sprouts alone carry 136 identified human carcinogens.
Your kid spitting them out isn't being difficult.
🎥: @anthony_chaffee
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Brussels sprouts do not carry 136 identified human carcinogens. This exaggerates research on trace natural plant compounds tested as rodent carcinogens in high-dose studies, while cruciferous vegetables are associated with protective effects against cancer.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2217210/
cancer.org/cancer/risk-pr…
lpi.oregonstate.edu/research-insid…
Michael Fitzpatrick retweeted
What a privilege it is to be able to wake up and try again. Thank you Lord. 🙏🏼
Always use the safeties on the Smith Machine. You may think you can click it in place manually before things get hairy, but you're wrong.
Michael Fitzpatrick retweeted
Our latest paper:
Effects of 10, 90, 120 and 150 G.H -1 CHO on Substrate Metabolism, Exogenous Oxidation and Exercise Capacity: Implications for CHO Personalization ovid.com/10.1249/MSS.0000000…
Congrats @HenryJMartyn on 2nd PhD study and huge thanks to all coauthors @LJMUSportSci
Michael Fitzpatrick retweeted
This is the third or fourth time I've tested a high fat, meat based diet and the last. My body just does not like it! 😳
The higher the fat, the higher my glucose and insulin, more inflammation, more and more pain in my body.
No energy.
Heavy tired legs.
Never again will I eat a high fat carnivore diet. 😅
Animal based. - fruit, animal products, raw milk, low fat is where I feel my best and where my metabolic markers are best.
So now for a gradual introduction of fruit and a lowering of the fat. 🍉🍇🍑🥩🥚
Sorry if my experience doesn't align with yours. We don't have the same body - obviously....
Four and a half years of experience and experiments have shown this to be true again and again.
I thought I'd give it one more try now that my bowel can handle the high fat, but the other results were still the same. 🙄
Gradually increasing my pain, inflammation, misery... 🥹
Michael Fitzpatrick retweeted
Doctor Explains: Men Over 40 Lose Weight Eating MORE Not Less (Based on ... youtu.be/z-TFejNnPSs?is=bXpY… via @YouTube
Interesting *observational* study of 9,036 adults with T1D using closed-loop insulin delivery I got from @cstoken
Average insulin use was 49 units/day, or 0.617 U/kg/day. Men averaged 0.665 U/kg/day vs 0.584 U/kg/day for women. Interestingly, those achieving >70% TIR averaged even less at 0.55 U/kg/day.
It's important to not use these averages as a benchmark for how much insulin you "should" be taking. Insulin needs vary tremendously between people (and even the same person throughout the year, speaking from personal experience from a bodybuilding perspective). We need as much insulin as we need to safely achieve good blood glucose control. Needing more insulin isn’t a failure, and using less isn’t a goal in itself.
Really weird nugget in the study was that people achieving >70% TIR actually reported slightly HIGHER carbohydrate intake. Researchers found no significant relationship between carb intake and total daily insulin requirement (which is the opposite of what I thought).
The authors said the findings “do not support a limitation in CHO intake in order to improve glycemic outcomes” (not sure I agree with that either, but data is data!)
This doesn’t mean more carbs yields better control. But it is interesting real world data that challenges the assumption that higher carb intake inherently means more insulin or worse T1D control. I think it’s important to keep challenging our assumptions and following the evidence as we figure out what lifestyle works best for each of us.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/article…
#T1d
Michael Fitzpatrick retweeted
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New creatine paper in JISSN claims 10 g/d helps middle-aged and older adults keep muscle, strength and cognitive function, with or without exercise. I read all 33 pages. The data don't support those conclusions. A 🧵
This new creatine study is insane.
People who never trained took 10g of creatine a day and gained more lean tissue (2.43 lbs) than people who were lifting 3x a week with no creatine (0.31 lbs).
Here's the breakdown: (1/18)
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The lean tissue gains in the no-exercise creatine group were measured by DXA body scans which creatine affects by increasing intracellular water that registers as lean mass. The decision to exercise or not was self-selected by participants not randomized.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC13…
medicalnewstoday.com/articles/creat…
Michael Fitzpatrick retweeted
Hey @grok Based on the best and latest evidence, if I want to avoid a heart attack and I can only measure one thing, one metric, what would it be? Concise answer
Totally random but does anyone remember ShoeNice? Dude was absolutely mental.
Here he is downing a whole bottle of 190 proof Everclear in about a minute 🤮
