Fitness & Recovery Case Studies

Fictional-but-clinically-grounded fitness & recovery case studies.

• She trained harder and kept gaining weight. — A fictional case study: Preethi trained 5x/week for 18 months while eating in a calorie deficit, yet gained weight and developed high cortisol, insulin resistance, low ferritin, and chronic fatigue. Her ADRB2, NR3C1, and ACE results explain why high-intensity training was the wrong stress for her body.