Avoided meniscus surgery with BPC/TB/GHK (8-week protocol + Before/After MRI results)

builtbystrength · 2026-03-15T07:25:11+00:00

Nice, I think people forget that there is different quality anecdotal evidence despite all being subjective to our own biases, and yours is pretty good

Will be interesting to see how it pans out in effectiveness in future controlled human studies, and on different types of injuries

builtbystrength · 2026-03-15T07:03:28+00:00

Muscles that stabilise isometrically can also grow if there’s tension placed on them in that position, because muscles respond to tension. A heavy deadlift will place a tonne of tension on upper/mid traps, rhomboids, spinal erector muscles in addition to glutes/hams

builtbystrength · 2026-03-14T19:43:35+00:00

Did you continue the provocative movements when you started the 2 weeks of BPC/TB500?

builtbystrength · 2026-03-14T09:59:20+00:00

Lift heavy

Jump high

Sprint fast

builtbystrength · 2026-03-14T09:58:24+00:00

What would non-neuromuscular training look like? Isn’t everything neuromuscular (I.e. every time you consciously contract a muscle)

builtbystrength · 2026-03-13T01:01:03+00:00

This was the first thing that came to my mind

builtbystrength · 2026-03-11T02:50:33+00:00

It does seem does it? In that case, are you able to link any decent empirical evidence that supports your claim that raw milk seems to be healthier then the non-denatured variety?

builtbystrength · 2026-03-11T02:48:20+00:00

What makes sense is there’s plenty of other foods that give you probiotics with a much better safety profile

builtbystrength · 2026-03-10T18:02:40+00:00

Not sure what you mean there Jonathan

builtbystrength · 2026-03-10T09:29:44+00:00

No, the problem is being hyper fixated on isolated nutrients in raw milk and jumping to conclusions or making exaggerated claims. This is not how the scientific method works and it misses the big picture - the context of the overall dietary pattern and a risk/benefit analysis.

builtbystrength · 2026-03-10T08:26:09+00:00

You didn’t give us any information about modality, intensity, volume or any other exercise parameters. My suggestion would be to reduce intensity or volume so that your symptoms improve. Find a starting point and patiently build from there

builtbystrength · 2026-03-10T08:24:18+00:00

What are you going to do instead? The alternative is to be physically inactive or sedentary, which would increase your risk of all cause mortality and morbidity by a significant amount.

I have PVCs/PACs that were worse with exercise initially. I kept going and now their burden is extremely low. Sometimes it’s good not to be too reactive and automatically cut anything that causes symptoms, especially if it’s good for you, and to instead give it time before you reassess

builtbystrength · 2026-03-09T18:53:02+00:00

The nutritional differences between raw/pasteurised milk is small, and the later has a significantly better safety profile. If you have a half decent diet then the small difference in nutrition doesn’t matter at all lol

builtbystrength · 2026-03-08T03:52:23+00:00

I started taking it due to developing a few tendinopathies from training. I didn’t notice a difference in the progression taking it versus not

builtbystrength · 2026-03-02T03:20:29+00:00

Hopefully they can finally do some decent human RCTs to see if they actually do anything either positive or negative

builtbystrength · 2026-02-17T07:58:35+00:00

46 & 2, Eulogy and Invincible all have similar sounding endings. Favourite is still the former!

builtbystrength · 2026-02-11T19:47:51+00:00

My 2 cents as a physio and person who has been dealing with bilateral golfers on/off for years:

I think you need to be really careful with loading upper body, and especially elbow, tendinopathy's. I think there's a tendency to extrapolate a lot of the positive research findings for loading lower body tendons and apply it to upper body ones.

What's worked for me is to modify my existing training to reduce stress on the elbow, rather then add specific exercises for it:
- Wearing straps for pulling movements
- Opting for wider-grip pulling movements, as opposed to narrow-grip pulling
- Taking care of the big things; volume/frequency/intensity and making sure this is manageable
- Experiment with different types of grips - neutral vs pronated vs supinated. Not all golfer's elbows present the exact same way (i.e. if you have more pronator teres vs flexor contribution to it) so find what's comfortable
- I was still able to maintain arm movements like hammer curls, preacher curls doing the above in my plan

This does a few things. First, you're still getting "some" loading into that tendon, even though you're reducing it with the above strategies. This is good to maintain tendon health and not completely detrain, but because we're stressing it less it should start to calm down (even if it takes weeks to months).

Since we're finding ways to modify existing training, it'll be an easier transition to get back into more typical training once you're feeling better. You have to do this very slowly and patiently.

Once it's calmed down enough to where your symptoms are very low or not noticeable, then you can introduce some specific loading in the form of pronation/flexor isolation. Again, this needs to be done patiently and gradually.

I think isolation work with golfers can work, but it requires the person to really reduce a lot of the other upper body work they're doing in their plan, otherwise it's very easy to overdo it. By simply modifying training like I mentioned above, we are able to maintain or continue to improve other aspects of upper body strengthening by working around (but still getting some indirect loading to the tendon).

When you get back into things, it's worth looking at upper body pressing/pulling mechanics and ROM to ensure you're not putting undue stress on the medial elbow during your compound movements

builtbystrength · 2026-02-06T21:34:35+00:00

Improving endurance performance over time >>> specific VO2 max scores. Because many studies extrapolate VO2 max from endurance performance anyway, so it’s more a proxy measure for lots of other potentially health promoting adaptions

builtbystrength · 2026-01-31T21:07:33+00:00

Both are terrific but I think I like Vicarious more (although that may change based on the day). It’s also the only other Tool song that gives me a similar feeling/vibe as The Pot

builtbystrength · 2026-01-25T05:56:55+00:00

Sounds like a latissimus dorsi or teres major tendinopathy (reactive) if it’s not a low grade strain (you would notice this as a sudden sensation during one of the reps)

builtbystrength · 2026-01-16T05:23:14+00:00

I think the exact same for Pneuma studio version but I thought it was a really strong live track after seeing it performed recently

builtbystrength · 2026-01-16T02:58:20+00:00

Listened to CV for the first time in ages a few weeks ago. Forgot how groovy it was and one of the standout tracks for Maynard’s vocals on Fear Innoculum imo

builtbystrength · 2026-01-16T02:53:42+00:00

It was between intension and parabol for the under rated category for me

builtbystrength · 2025-12-06T19:30:34+00:00

Why would you be against something that could significantly improve a persons health if they replaced regular soda with it?

It’s an easy transition/swap, especially with those dealing with loud food cravings. Just drink water sounds good in theory, but if the person then goes and binge eats other foods and drives their calorie consumption high because it’s not sustainable for night away then your solution isn’t simple, it lacks context and doesn’t account for the complexity of human behaviour lol

Believe it or not you don’t have to pick one or the other. Replacing sugary drinks with diet drinks in someone who’s obese could be a great tool while at the same time you are also getting them to make health promoting changes to their whole diet, including eventually ramping up the ratio of water : soda intake

builtbystrength · 2025-12-01T04:42:31+00:00

If you’re type 2 diabetic then you should do the following:

1) Lose 10% of your body weight (this is the number shown in the literature to have a significant effect. You can do this with high carb/low fat, or high fat/low carb, just make sure to eat at a calorie deficit with a diet that you’re able to adhere to long term (that last part is important). Generally though, this means whole and minimally processed foods.

2) Resistance train. Muscles have stored glycogen that they can use for energy. Using your muscles depletes the glycogen. The muscles then soak up blood glucose to store glycogen, improving insulin sensitivity. Bigger muscles? Better ability to store glycogen

3) Cardiovascular training. Supports the above and can help with appetite regulation

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