Dang really? I might have to jump in this sale then. At what dose do you see the most fat reduction without the risk of sugar spiking?
If you’re on a GLP, typically up to 4iu won’t move morning fasting glucose above the 100 threshold.
This is highly dependent on the individual, and typically, is at its worst when starting (the liberated fatty acids pay a role in this). As the visceral and liver fat most sensitive to the GH signal gets depleted and you’re down to less responsive fat stores (older visceral fat, fibrosed fat from high inflammation) blood won’t be quite as saturated with FFAs, insulin sensitivity will improve, and glucose should drop.
Cardio is important to burn off some those FFAs or you may end up worsening insulin sensitivity over time.
The unused FFAs will be redeposited in fat once you eat and insulin is released, but it’s redeposited away from visceral fat, taking on a more youthful distribution so there’s less “central adiposity”, which worsens with age and dropping GH / IGF levels.
You’ll make your life easier and lose some of the GH phobia with a continuous glucose monitor.
Stick with it long enough and GH will melt deep visceral fat away and get you peeled in places you’ve never gotten as leaned out in as much before. Vasculature so unfamiliar you might think you’ve got some kind of medical issue, lol. (When did I develop a road map of veins on my inner thighs?). The scale won’t move much from rHGH alone, but lean mass seems to increase enough to keep the scale stable as fat disappears. But it’s a long game. Expect it to take months, probably 4, for significant visible improvements to become apparent at a modest dose like 4iu.
Get your baseline IGF-1 tested. When you decide to stay on forever, as you likely will, that’s the number that you’ll use to gauge how high of a dose you can use long term safely.