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Making the Best of Things

By eating high glycemic and delivering the insulin spike in one fell swoop, your blood sugar levels will fall quickly during sleep. Before too long, the growth hormone bursts will begin, but they’ll be augmented by the insulin spike and subsequent drop of blood sugar levels below baseline.

Growth Hormone

Growth Hormone (GH) is a hormone responsible for cellular growth in the human body. Throughout the day, GH is synthesized, stored and secreted by the anterior portion of the pituitary gland. Factors such as low blood sugar, sleep, and exercise stimulate the hypothalamus to produce and release hormones that increase growth hormone synthesis and release in the pituitary gland.
On the other hand, elevated blood levels of cortisol, glucose and even growth hormone itself decrease production and secretion.

Sleep and Hormones ,

Dysfunctional sleep can lead to chronically elevated cortisol levels and low levels of growth hormone, resulting in poor body composition and overall health.
Eat protein and good fats during the day to keep insulin levels low, your blood sugar stable, and growth hormone up.
Eat carbohydrates at night to maximize fat burning and anabolic signaling during sleep. Don’t go to bed hungry!
Once you’ve developed a routine, stick to it and eventually it will become second nature.
Cut back on stimulants (like caffeine and energy drinks) when you’re trying to regulate your sleep cycles. Excessive use can really aggravate the problem. In general, try to avoid coffee after the morning is over and make sure you drink plenty of water.

Leptin

One week of dieting can lower your leptin by 50%. for weight loss, leptin is lowered to an extreme level affecting the body’s ability to mobilize fat and keep hormones at healthy libido levels. This is where a big helping of sweet potatoes and bananas after a day of low carbohydrate dieting can actually spur fat loss, because you have now opened the door for leptin again and it mobilizes fat as a result

Reactive hypoglycemia, or postprandial hypoglycemia

Reactive hypoglycemia, or postprandial hypoglycemia, is a medical term describing recurrent episodes of symptomatic hypoglycemia occurring within 4 hours[1] after a high carbohydrate meal (or oral glucose load) in people who do not have diabetes. It is thought to represent a consequence of excessive insulin release triggered by the carbohydrate meal but continuing past the digestion and disposal of the glucose derived from the meal.