Serious hypoglycemic episodes where there is serious danger are very rare. Mild hypoglycemia where it's fixed in 5-10 minutes with a glass of orange juice is common especially if you are trying to get away with as few carbs as possible. Even trying to kill yourself with insulin is often unsuccessful.
You can avoid the gut if you go mild on the dosage and don't pound extreme amounts of food. You have to really work at it to end up completely blowing out your waist. But bodybuilders are extremists so they often push too far. Most top bodybuilders use insulin but they've never been leaner. The GH helps a lot.
You don't need to start at anywhere near 20iu twice daily. I would try 10iu of the "R" like an hour before workouts and see how it treats you. Start with even 5iu to assess tolerance. The R is long acting enough to cover the whole workout period so you wouldn't do 2 shots before and after like you might with Milos' Humalog protocol.
With experience you learn when you need to start eating and when the dose has basically petered out. I remember Duchaine saying he would take Humulin R, drive ro the gym, workout, drive back and when he was through the door he felt he needed to eat. But I wouldn't go anywhere without some juice or glucose tabs when insulin is active. You don't want to get stuck in traffic while going hypo with no carbs on hand. With Humalog I learned that if I hadn't gone hypo by 2 hours it was not going to happen even if I stopped eating at that point. Sometimes I would induce hypoglycemia purposely just for the pleasure you feel eating finally. Once I had taken Humalog sitting 3 feet from my fridge reading getbig. After an hour I could feel hypo coming on but continued playing with my cell for another half an hour. Then I started seeing stars and sweating profusely and had barely the energy to stand up and open the fridge Lol.
Reminding me of a friend who couldn't afford HGH but, like you, loved the science part of it and was very well-read. He learned that there is an inverse relationship between blood sugar and GH. That when blood sugar is low GH production increases. That's why you produce the most GH naturally when you sleep because that's when you are most fasted. When I told him about the results of my Insulin Sensitivity test that my TRT doctor (an endocrinologist that worked primarily with diabetics) had me do. Where it showed clearly that when they injected insulin into one vein forcing my blood sugar to drop, and when I was blacking out, my GH would shoot up, and then when they would inject Dextrose into another vein my GH production would drop as my blood sugar increased. This gave him an idea.
Using slin he would intentionally get himself into a hypoglycemic state, like you, he realized that the dangers of slin are exaggerated and even when you are in a state where you are dripping with sweat you still have a lot of time to get in some sugar before you pass out. The idea was to stimulate his own GH production.
It worked. He had a marked increase in his IGF level when he got it tested after a few weeks of this protocol.
Now I wonder how many people reading this will head to Walmart for some Novolin R and do this themselves. Just be sure to pick up some glucose tab as well or better yet, have a plate of pancakes and Corn syrup (which is just pure dextrose) in front of you when you start sweating and getting woozy.
