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hey guys it’s me again in this video we’re going  to talk about a very interesting hormone called  

igf-1 and if you ever heard of that it stands for  insulin like growth factor number one now let me  

just kind of give you some background on what this  hormone is in the brain you have this little gland  

called the pituitary all right and the pituitary  makes growth hormone growth hormone is sent down  

to the liver where then liver is triggered will  trigger this hormone to be produced by GF so igf-1  

is an extension of growth hormone so whatever  growth homas doing IGF is doing you kind of  

look at it like a GF is the worker bee that’s can  that is instructed by a growth on them okay now  

the chemistry of growth hormone is very similar to  insulin lust the name in some like growth factor  

right and in what happens in the liver IG f is  made and then you have the pancreas makes insulin  

so you have the pancreas that makes influence  and the liver that makes IGF right flow these  

two hormones work together back and forth back  and forth to determine what fuel you’re going  

to use if insulin is kicked in when you’re eating  you’re going to use sugar fuel when you don’t eat  

when you fast you’re going to use fat fuel okay  you’re going to use some stored sugar but mainly  

fat fuel so we have this determination of if you  want to burn sugar or fat so IGF works when you’re  

not eating and insulin works when you’re eating  okay so that’s the kind of the back and forth but  

to see the IGF is a hundred times greater than  insulin so for example over time if you destroy  

your liver or the liver gets like fatty you lose  the capacity to make IGF which then forces your  

body to make more insulin so that’s the the  diabetic situation so the liver is very very  

vital in protecting you against diabetes now  the thing the three big things that lower IGF  

our insulin stress which is cortisol and estrogen  okay and what happens is it’s triggered by protein  

now just a moderate amount of protein because  if you have too much protein you’ll trigger  

insulin so a small amount of protein between  three and six ounces you will trigger IGF all  

right exercise intense exercise will trigger IGF  fasting or intermittent fasting will trigger IGF  

sleeping high quality sleep will trigger I GF  alright so I just want to kind of give you a  

little background and what this hormone is and it  does help you in anti-aging so again start eating  

those vegetables those cruciferous vegetables  start taking care of your liver do everything  

you can to maintain the liver function and to  keep your IGF very very high thanks for watching