I spoke with Jean Piere Fux about a year ago, and I asked him about his exteneded stomach.He told me he had a major hernia for 2 years and didnt even know it, thats was there was so much inflamation around his stomach.I didnt beleive him until he lifted up his stomach he shower me the scar from the surgery.I also noticed that he is alot smaller but his stomach is no longer distended at all, so I would say I have to beleive him on the whole hernia thing.He said he had to stop training for over a year after his hernia operation because the hernia was really bad.I have seen people who have had a bad henia before and it caused alot of inflamation in the stomach area