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After I wrote this I realized my thoughts were actually only half correct. The lightheadedness would be due to vascular shunting away from my head, but the blood is undoubtedly shunting away from my gut, too, to my muscles - not to my gut. I'll have to do a bit more reading to try and piece this one together. My GP had no…
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Hey thanks everyone for the feedback and support. Lots of great comments in there. To briefly address a few pseudo-questions, I do not find I am lacking in protein as such, but I eat a low-carb diet. The only carbs I get are incidental, i.e. from dairy and nuts. I've been diabetic 41 years, was sick as a dog the first 20,…
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A-ha! This was exactly what it was - thank you, awesomesauce.
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Cool, thanks everyone. What a nice community - I've been on the Intertubez a long time and am not sure I've seen a single post without a snarky flame-post. How refreshing! With gratitude, Matthew
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Well yeah I guess I could have phrased that a lot more simply - but I hadn't heard "chin-ups" in about 30 years for whatever reason. I'm not so concerned about less reps with pull-ups, I'm concerned about having so much less height on the work. My understanding is that this means I'm not working the entire length of the…
