Metabolic Compensation: The Epidemic In Physique Sports
I can’t tell you how many athletes come to me to “fix them” these days. It’s always the same story: we review bloodwork, certain markers and hormones are out of whack, and we conclude that they have metabolic compensation. Metabolic compensation, which we refer to as simply met comp, is defined as dysregulation and dysfunction of the key hormones that regulate metabolic functions.