5 Ways To Naturally Increase Growth Hormone To Burn More Fat

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How To Naturally Boost Growth Hormone

On today’s episode of Live Lean TV, I’m sharing 5 ways to naturally increase growth hormone to burn more fat.

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What Is Growth Hormone?

Ok, let’s talk about growth hormone.

When I say growth hormone (GH), I’m referring to the natural growth hormone that is produced by your body, via your pituitary gland.

I’m not referring to supplementing with often illegal and unnatural synthetic hormones that has been covered by the media in professional bodybuilding and sports over the past few years.

Of course, that’s not what Live Lean TV is all about.

Live Lean TV is all about teaching you how to naturally optimize your healthy hormones, so you can be healthy for life.

When most people hear growth hormone, they often think it’s primarily an anabolic hormone for muscle building and strength gains.

This can be true, but growth hormone has an even more powerful effect on fat loss and keeping you looking and feeling younger.

Growth Hormone Benefits

Growth hormone is often called the anti-aging hormone as it can help you:

1. Stay young as it’s production stimulates the liver to produce insulin like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) which simply helps repair all the tissues, cells, and bones in your body.
2. Improve protein synthesis for muscle gain and for faster recovery after your workouts.
3. Free fat stores from the body so they can be burned for energy
4. Improve your immune system
5. Potentially decrease the risk of diabetes and heart disease

5 Ways To Naturally Increase Growth Hormone To Burn More Fat

If all that sounds good, here are 5 tips to increase growth hormone naturally.

#1. You Must Workout With Higher Intensities

Growth hormone is an exercise related hormone, meaning if you want to naturally optimize your production of GH, you must workout.

However, not all types of workouts have the same effect on growth hormone production.

Walking on the treadmill and lifting pink dumbbells will not optimize your growth hormone production as much as higher intensity workouts like HIIT training and lifting heavier weights.

The reason for this is growth hormone release is tied to having high lactate levels.

High lactate levels are produced when not enough oxygen is available, thus creating that lactic acid burn during your workouts

Training with higher intensity has been shown to trigger a bigger release of growth hormone after workouts.

In other words, the more intense you train, the more growth hormone is released.

This is just another reason to keep the weights up, even when your goal is fat loss.

Best Time To Workout To Optimize Growth Hormone

The time you workout can be somewhat beneficial in optimizing growth hormone.

However, I’d call this a minor benefit, so don’t worry if you don’t train at this time.

Since growth hormone release has various secretion patterns, typically at 12pm it has a high secretion, thus making it an optimal time to workout.

Typical 24 Hour Growth Hormone Secretion Patterns

See below for a timeline of how typical growth hormone secretion patterns occur within a 24 hour window.

• 7 am: low secretion
• 9 am: medium secretion
• 11 am: low secretion
• 12 pm: high secretion (optimal intense resistance training time)
• 2-5pm: low to medium secretion
• 7 pm: medium to high secretion
• 12am: very high secretion (should be in a deep sleep by 11pm)
• 3-6am: small peaks

#2. Focus On HIIT Workouts For Your Cardio Training

Once again, HIIT workouts that follow a high intensity interval followed by a short rest period are also shown to trigger a bigger release in growth hormone.

This is just another reason why I love sprint training for fat loss.

#3. Improve The Quality Of Your Sleep

Since up to 75% of growth hormone is produced during sleep, it is super important to take the necessary steps to not only get enough sleep, but to also improve the quality of your sleep.

Typically 7-8 hours of sleep a night is optimal, but you should also focus on sleep quality by going to bed earlier, as growth hormone release has various secretion patterns, which is at it’s very highest at 12am.

This means that you should be in deep sleep by at least 11pm, to get all the growth hormone benefits.

Another tip to improve sleep quality is to turn down the temperature to 68-72 degrees Fahrenheit.

Being too hot when you’re in bed often obstructs quality sleep.

#4. Reduce Consumption Of Insulin Spiking Refined Carbohydrates

Since growth hormone is an antagonist hormone to insulin, try to keep the insulin spiking refined carbohydrates to a minimum.

This simply means when insulin levels are continuously higher, growth hormone levels tend to be lower.

Balance is important.

#5. Supplement With Specific Amino Acids

You can supplement with specific amino acids that can act as agents to help release more growth hormone.

However, the jury is still out on this one.

Although certain amino acids like arginine, lysine, and ornithine may act as agents to help release growth hormone, this often depends on the individual.

Plus, the dosage required is probably so high that it could cause digestive issues.

I would probably skip this one and focus the majority of your efforts on your workouts.

Disclaimer: Once again, I do not recommend you purchase growth hormone products that actually contain HGH, unless it’s prescribed by your physician.

Does Growth Hormone Decrease As You Age?

As you age, growth hormone production and IGF-1 typically decreases.

These declines, in addition to many people losing muscle tissue as they age, is just another reason to make weight training a priority during your Live Lean journey, regardless of what your age is.

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