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Growth hormone is a crucial hormone that among numerous roles keeps your lean and energized. When everything is in order, growth hormone works with cortisol and adrenaline to burn fat and build muscle. Growth hormone is part of the switch between burning glucose to burning fat. Sometimes the switch gets stuck in the “store fat” position because the body perceives too much external stress, restricted calories, overexercise, insufficient sleep, or toxins.


Fixing the Growth Hormone Deficit.
🟣Eat Healthy Protein. Think foods like grass fed beef, SMASH fish (salmon, mackerel, anchovies, sardines, and herring) whey protein shakes, and pastured eggs and chicken.
🟣Exercise. Exercise raises growth hormone and the more strenuous the greater the effect. Think HIIT exercise.
🟣Eat Healthy Fats. Omega 3’s have been shown to raise growth hormone. Consuming a healthy mix of omega farts can help your body be more sensitive to insulin and keep the fat burning switch to “on”. Consider, flax, chia, MCT oil, SMASH fish.
🟣Supplements. Some key supplements include Vitamin D and creatine.
🟣Fast. Multiple studies show that intermittent fasting increases growth hormone. A 14/10 protocol is ideal (14 hours overnight fasting). I urge caution with this method if your stress levels are already too high. Fasting can increase cortisol production.