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you know the big problem with growth

hormone is that

it decreases with age so

if you’re noticing uh various things

with your joints

with your muscles

it could be the decline in growth

hormone but growth hormone is involved

in fat burning it’s involved in

building up collagen and cartilage and

muscle and it also helps your endurance

when you exercise so it’s involved in

performance it also helps you recover if

you have trauma like whether from an

injury surgery

or even a stroke and it’s also involved

in the cognitive function of your brain

so

if you’re low in growth hormone you may

find that that can affect your memory or

focus and your concentration also if you

are a young person

and you don’t have enough growth hormone

it can actually

make you a bit shorter than you should

now i’m definitely not going to

recommend you take growth hormone

it’s probably

a big problem in sports

but you don’t need to do that okay there

are natural things that you can

do to boost growth hormone to counter

this aging process

it all starts with a hypothalamus okay

so you got this hypothalamus up in the

brain

that sends a signal down and tells the

pituitary

to release growth hormone so the growth

hormone is created by the pituitary but

there’s another hormone up here that

tells the pituitary to create growth

hormone and then growth hormone goes

right to your liver

and it works through another hormone

called igf number one insulin-like

growth factor number one so in other

words igf number one does the work of

growth hormone so i just want to talk

about what will stimulate or boost

growth hormone

and then

on the flip side what will inhibit or

suppress growth hormone well guess what

in the deep part of your sleep when you

hit the delta wave

that’s when you have a

major release of growth hormone so

of course if you’re not sleeping you’re

not going to have nearly as much growth

hormones so sleep is a very

potent way to keep the growth hormone

doing its job

number two intense exercise okay

not mild

exercise but intense exercise the more

intense the more growth hormone

stimulation so you have the potential to

increase your growth hormone by up to a

thousand percent

if you do intense exercise and i think

out of all the exercises

sprinting is at the top of the list but

there’s a lot of other ones that you

could do to increase your pulse rate and

use your whole body to really activate

um this intensity that you need to do um

just kind of walking on the treadmill is

not going to do much to growth hormones

you’re going to have to really

use a lot of effort okay intense effort

but guess what if you over train and you

don’t get enough sleep

then you’re it’s probably not going to

work so we want to do this intense

exercise without over training this is

why we want to do high intensity

interval training okay short duration

lots of rest low blood sugars are

another uh powerful way to stimulate

growth from them right so guess what

that’s on the keto plan that’s on a low

carb diet so unfortunately diabetics who

have high amounts of sugar in their

blood because they’re not told

about this dietary sugar and

carbohydrate connection usually it’s all

about just managing your blood sugars

they usually have very low growth

hormone levels

so we want to keep the blood sugars low

to trigger growth

hormone number four amino acids so

protein so you need protein to stimulate

growth hormone so if you’re not getting

enough protein guess what you’re not

going to have enough growth hormone

there are several amino acids that will

trigger growth hormone but the big one

is arginine in one study they found that

you have to take between five and nine

grams of it to increase growth hormone

by 100

okay now i’m not recommending that you

go out and get arginine i don’t think

you need to do it i just wanted to bring

it up as a potential thing to increase

your growth hormone sometimes

people are concerned about taking

protein especially branched amino acids

when they’re fasting and having that

increase their blood glucose levels

and that can do it but apparently

arginine won’t increase your blood sugar

level so that’s interesting good to know

also there is a very unique amino acid

blend

that i recommend for certain people

that

need to maintain their muscle mass

during fasting that doesn’t have the

same effect

of other proteins of turning into sugar

it’s like i think

99.8 of it turns into muscle tissue so

you don’t have that stimulation of

glucose which is good so i will put that

link down below if you fit into that

category but typically when you eat

protein so it’s going to turn into

glucose that’s going to increase insulin

and that’s going to knock you out of the

benefits of fasting but the point is

that you need sufficient amino acids if

you want to

increase growth hormone number five

fasting

fasting has

the largest influence

over growth hormone okay you can

potentially increase

growth hormone by up to two thousand

percent if you’re a male

if you’re female you can increase it by

thirteen hundred percent

so

this is really really powerful so

i’m definitely recommending sleeping

more sleeping deeply adding fasting okay

doing keto and intense exercise those

are the the key factors here but then

you also have niacin which is vitamin b3

that has the potential to increase

growth hormone not by a lot but it can

definitely boost it then we have vitamin

d okay that you can get from the sun

no cost to that and that can increase

growth from let’s talk about what can

inhibit growth hormone you got stress

and cortisol right which is going to

affect your sleep the more cortisol that

you’re exposed to let’s say from a

medication you’re on prednisone for

example

the more stress you have the less growth

hormone you’re going to have so if your

diet is high carbohydrate you’re not

going to have nearly the amount of

growth hormone that you really need

also goes along with this

hyperinsulinemia okay so of course if

you’re eating sugar you’re going to have

high insulin

but high insulin also

will

knock down

growth hormone especially if it’s

sustained or chronic elevation insulin

we see

you know great majority of the

population

and also

pre-diabetes and also the first part of

diabetes where your body is compensating

but eventually

the pancreas runs out of insulin and

then now the blood sugars go really

really high so then of course the doctor

might even give you more insulin to

regulate your blood sugars

all right next one obesity so the bigger

you are fat wise the less growth hormone

you’re going to have why probably

because of this right here

hyperinsulinemia all right next one is

low thyroid if your thyroid is not

working correctly

you’re not going to be able to nearly

produce

enough growth hormone

now since

growth hormone works through the liver

we need a healthy liver for that to work

so the more damage you have in your

liver the less growth hormone you’re

going to have and i’m talking about a

fatty liver talking about

an inflamed liver and also cirrhosis of

the liver

alcohol has a pretty potent

inhibitory or suppressive effect over

growth hormone okay

and of course age as you age

you have less growth hormones so we’re

really trying to do all these things to

compensate for this darn aging thing

that we’re we’re forced to deal with so

there you have it

kind of growth hormone in a nutshell

and i think

at this point it’d be very very smart to

get a little more information

about the main organ that you have

growth hormone connecting to

so check out this video on the liver

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