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@bencurthoys@mastodon.social
2026-04-19 15:14:05

My metabolism has gone into summer mode, and the dose of insulin I took with lunch that has barely been keeping the spike below 15 all winter is now bottoming me out despite several doses of sweets.

Screenshot of glucose monitor
@aredridel@kolektiva.social
2026-05-19 14:52:16

Unfair advantages commonly accepted:
- Having more money to train
- Having more time to train
- Being able to relocate to high altitude to train
- Having genetic predisposition to efficient metabolism
- Having a build with extra large lungs
- Having a build with extra leg muscle
- Having an extremely compact build
- Having extremely long limbs
- Taking ibuprofen to help inflammation
- Taking many supplements to improve muscle growth
- Taking ice baths to improve recovery
- Taking hormones for birth control
Unfair advantages we don't allow:
- Taking metabolic steroids to improve muscle growth
- Doping with red blood cells to improve oxygen carrying
- Taking amphetamines
- Taking hormones to improve recovery
- Taking hormones for gender reasons
- Having a body that produces more testosterone than the normal distribution for your gender would indicate, if you're a woman
- Having a body that produces more testosterone than the normal distribution for your gender would indicate, if you're a man and they don't decide it's completely normal and allow it anyway.