Michael Fitzpatrick

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

@EscapeLow Ha great example

@ItIsMikeFitz Yep. Doctor Tro, usually.

Ever notice it's never a fit person that's criticizing you for tracking your macros?

@BowTiedYukon I suspect chronic low t and not training anywhere close the failure. Powderpuff sets 2-3 days a week for 30 mins

Alex doesn’t look like he hasn’t eaten in 2 years. I don’t think there will be too much mogging happening any time soon

@theproof Dude was also talking smack on people who eat potatoes. That earned him a mute from me. What a putz.

This is why I left X for a bit. It hurts my brain

I think when you crossover from overweight to obese on the bmi scale you are creating much more risk… exponentially the further you are and the longer you are there. 25-29 bmi lean i do believe can live a very long healthy life. But a bmi of 20-24 at the same lean bodyfat percentage has a better chance of living longer. Age wise i would say 45 years or older should start working on an exit

@mikeoniron @MiocanDanijel Smart people see the numerous black swans like this and start asking questions and digging deeper. Zealots will ignore and double down on stupidity.

@ItIsMikeFitz @MiocanDanijel Genuinely agree. Or even just stop to consider if he is following his own advice. And, if he is.... why?

The moment they pronounce you Lean Mass Hyper Responder of 2026 ♥️

@FowardAssist @grok what are potential consequences if I don't wait a full 48 hours after doing a power red blood donation before training legs super heavy?

@ItIsMikeFitz What happens if you don’t wait?

The only bad thing about donating blood is I have to wait 48 hours to train hard again.

Costco currently has home gym flooring on sale for $14.99/mat. They're vastly better than foam tiles and are cheaper and easier to move around than horse stall mats. If you're building a gym on a budget, these are a great option.

@ryanattar @ScottAppliedSci @KenDBerryMD So handsome 😍

@ScottAppliedSci @KenDBerryMD

Am I the only one who thinks Bryan Johnson is just a healthy 48 year old who looks his age??

@AMC_2023_ @RedCross Sure do! Was low 6 months ago, 17 iirc. Recently I had it tested again and was 90. I do supplement ferritin daily

@ItIsMikeFitz @RedCross Do you ever test for your ferritin?

Oil change time! @RedCross #powerreddonation

@BornFree_isms @RedCross Nope

@ItIsMikeFitz @RedCross Curious, do you notice anything regarding BG after? Maybe for your size not so much 🤔

@CoachDanGo Glyceine helped immensely with sleep for me

What's one supplement that changed your life?

@BornFree_isms @RedCross 💉😎

@ItIsMikeFitz @RedCross Well no issue finding great vein access there! 👏🏼🩸

@BornFree_isms It's true, well documented. Doesn't affect everyone but definitely a segment. Just something to be aware of if you eat that way 😊

@ItIsMikeFitz Oh no….don’t tell the keto-bros they may have low testosterone 😬

FYI to my #T1D brothers (and sisters!): get your testosterone checked. Not just total testosterone. More importantly, get Free T and SHBG checked too. Especially if you have symptoms. Total testosterone can look normal or even solid on paper, but if SHBG is high, your Free T can still be low enough to cause low testosterone symptoms. This is something that can show up in Type 1 diabetes because injected insulin does not reach the liver through the portal vein the same way natural pancreatic insulin does. That lower liver insulin signaling can increase SHBG, which can lower Free T. You can also see a similar pattern in people who chronically diet very low carb or follow “low insulin” diets. So don’t just look at total T and assume everything is fine. If you feel off, look deeper.

@pradkrishna Sure! I did

@ItIsMikeFitz Ok boss.. Can we go with TRT

@Tellit007 Love when that happens 🤣

Someone used Grok to try and prove statins don't work. Grok disagreed. The Minnesota Coronary Experiment was a dietary swap. Saturated fat out, corn oil in. It lowered total cholesterol and showed no cardiovascular benefit. Worth knowing. Not a statin trial. It tells you what happened when you replaced one dietary fat with another in a 1960s institutionalized population. It tells you nothing about what happens when you inhibit HMG-CoA reductase, upregulate hepatic LDL receptors, and reduce the number of ApoB-containing particles circulating in the bloodstream across decades. Those are different mechanisms. Different pathways. Different evidence bases. Grok named this distinction explicitly in the same thread. The person asking cited Grok's answer and kept going anyway. Remarkable. The Cholesterol Treatment Trialists meta-analysis: 170,000 patients, 27 trials, consistent dose-response reduction in cardiovascular events proportional to LDL-C drop. Not one dietary swap study. Blinded pharmacological RCTs. PCSK9 loss-of-function (LOF) carriers: born clearing ApoB more efficiently via enhanced hepatic LDL receptor activity. Lifelong lower circulating particle burden. 88% lower coronary heart disease risk. Nature ran that trial. No pharmaceutical funding. When your own AI referee names the distinction and you use that answer to deny the distinction, that is a move worth naming. The diet-heart hypothesis and the ApoB causality hypothesis are not the same question. Confusing them is not a critique of statins. It is a category error.

@NewSchedules Nothing wrong with getting checked to make an informed decision with your doctor. More information is good 👍😊

@ItIsMikeFitz I don't have symptoms or anything, but checking this is still on my list of things to do. However, I have to take care of other priorities first.