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Increase your Growth Hormone Naturally with proper nutrition and Specific Exercises.

Part 1 of 2

Growth hormone decline begins between age 25 and 30 and causes the signs and symptoms of getting older. As growth hormone levels of youth fall, a metabolic-slowing process begins, changing everything from the way your body stores fat to how easy it is to repair and grow muscle. Follow this workout style and restore youth hormones that accelerate your fat burning metabolism and grow muscle…

You hear about “Low-T” all the time, but what most people fail to recognize is the role somatotropin (AKA, Growth Hormone or HGH) has in the aging process.

Most people believe that HGH is a muscle-building hormone, and yes, they are right.

But what’s commonly ignored is the role HGH plays in your metabolism.

It’s one of the reasons you gain weight as you approach middle-age, even if you don’t change your diet at all.

Why Body Fat Increases with Age
Growth hormone secretion at age 30 is on average HALF of what it was at age 20. By age 50, it’s halved again - to just 25% of age 20 levels.

One of the first noticeable signs of growth hormone decline is an increase in fat tissue, even without a change in diet and even with regular exercise.

Here’s the reason you gain weight between age 30 to 45 even without changing your diet:

HGH and Carbohydrate Metabolism: HGH keeps your blood glucose levels balanced and has anti-insulin properties. It stops insulin from sending your body into “fat storage mode.” Take it away, and the increased levels of insulin in your blood tell your body to store excess glucose as fat.
HGH and Fat Metabolism: HGH improves your body’s ability to use fat as fuel. Fat cells have HGH receptors on them. HGH stimulates fat cell breakdown and keeps cells from taking on lipids in your blood.
Take away the HGH levels of youth and your metabolism dramatically changes.

Due to its anti-insulin properties, growth hormone suppresses fat uptake. At the same time, it stimulates fat cell breakdown.

Excess fat is one of the first noticeable signs of growth hormone decline. The other sign of GH decline is something everyone talks about:

The Reason Muscle is Harder to Build

Growth hormone fuels muscle and bone development.

You knew this part.

It works by telling your liver to secrete insulin-like growth factor (IGF-1).

IGF-1 increases amino acid uptake, protein synthesis, and myoblasts. Myocytes (muscle cells) develop from myoblasts.

Additionally, when IGF-1 is released, your body produces cartilage cells that make bones grow and increase bone density. That’s why bone density declines with age.

More growth hormone results in higher levels of IGF-1, higher levels of IGF-1 create more myoblasts. Muscle cells (myocytes) develop from myoblasts.

Lack of growth hormone is why muscle gets harder to build.

Do You Have Any of These Symptoms?
Somatopause is the medical term for growth hormone decline.

Doctors observe it through blood tests that measure how many nanograms per day of somatotropin (growth hormone) your body is secreting. They also point to the symptoms of decline:

Weight Gain
Bad Cholesterol Levels Increase
Good Cholesterol Levels Decrease
Muscle Mass Decreases
Bone Density Declines
Energy Levels Fall
S*x Drive Declines
Skin Wrinkles
All of the signs of getting older are tied directly to growth hormone decline. It’s even linked to the development of degenerative disease.

You already have or you will experience these symptoms if you are over age 30 and not exercising in a way that stimulates growth hormone production OR not receiving GH injections.

Do nothing and the symptoms will only get worse.

Growth Hormone Loss Is Natural,
But You Can Fight Against It

It’s natural for growth hormone secretion to decline as you age.

At around age 25, growth hormone levels begin to sharply decline. Your body stops releasing it. By age 30, somatotropin levels are one half of age 20 levels. By age 50, they’ve declined another half to 25% of age 20 levels.

Raw numbers? These are all per year…

Age 20: 800 micrograms of HGH are secreted (on average)
Age 30: 400 micrograms of HGH are secreted (on average)
Age 40: 300 micrograms of HGH are secreted (on average)
Age 50: 200 micrograms of HGH are secreted (on average)
Beyond: levels remain about the same age 50 through age 90.
This means at around age 50, your body will produce the same level of growth hormone per year – on average – until you are 90+ years old.

Let's be extra careful with this bug. The Corona Virus has reached the Unites States.

The Corona Virus is now in the general population here in the United States. We need to be extremely cautious as this virus is highly contagious and can be transmitted easily. Taking the proper steps to prevent the spread of this disease is crucial. If you are a healthy individual the chances of hospitalization is low, however if you have pre-existing conditions or susceptible to upper respiratory issues like bronchitis or asthma you need to be extra careful as this disease could prove to be very harmful to those individuals.

The following steps to take during this outbreak of Corona Virus and straight from the CDC. Please be careful and follow these guidelines to help slow this virus down.

There is currently no vaccine to prevent coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The best way to prevent illness is to avoid being exposed to this virus. However, as a reminder, CDC always recommends everyday preventive actions to help prevent the spread of respiratory diseases, including:

Avoid close contact with people who are sick.
Avoid touching your eyes, nose, and mouth.
Stay home when you are sick.
Cover your cough or sneeze with a tissue, then throw the tissue in the trash.
Clean and disinfect frequently touched objects and surfaces using a regular household cleaning spray or wipe.
Follow CDC’s recommendations for using a facemask.
CDC does not recommend that people who are well wear a facemask to protect themselves from respiratory diseases, including COVID-19.
Facemasks should be used by people who show symptoms of COVID-19 to help prevent the spread of the disease to others. The use of facemasks is also crucial for health workers and people who are taking care of someone in close settings (at home or in a health care facility).
Wash your hands often with soap and water for at least 20 seconds, especially after going to the bathroom; before eating; and after blowing your nose, coughing, or sneezing.
If soap and water are not readily available, use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer with at least 60% alcohol. Always wash hands with soap and water if hands are visibly dirty.

Vitamin C Are you getting enough?

Part 3 Conclusion

Maximizing Healthy Lifestyle Choices

In our efforts to reduce the risk of heart disease, regular exercise plays an important part in maintaining a healthy lifestyle. The increased delivery of oxygen-rich blood to tissues is a vital part of the process—but it can also produce destructive free radicals. Clearly, the solution is not to stop exercising! Rather, a series of recent studies shows how supplementation with vitamin C can mitigate free-radical damage from intense exercise.British researchers evaluated the effects of just two weeks of modest vitamin C supplementation (200 mg twice daily) on the recovery from an unaccustomed bout of exercise. Eight healthy men were given either a placebo or vitamin C supplementation each day, and after 14 days performed a 90-minute-long running test. The supplemented group had less muscle soreness, better muscle function, and lower blood levels of the oxidative stress-induced molecule malondialdehyde. And although both groups experienced post-exercise elevations in levels of the inflammatory cytokine interleukin-6, increases in the supplemented group were smaller than in the placebo recipients. The scientists concluded that “prolonged vitamin C supplementation has some modest beneficial effects on recovery from unaccustomed exercise.” Timing is critical, however. When the researchers repeated their study with subjects who took vitamin C only after exercise, no benefit was seen.Oxidative stress during exercise induces significant changes in proteins, producing compounds known as protein carbonyls. Measuring levels of protein carbonyls is therefore a useful indicator of oxidation. Exercise scientists at the University of North Carolina studied the impact of vitamin C supplementation (500 or 1,000 mg/day for two weeks) compared with placebo on oxidative stress indicators in 12 healthy men. As expected, exercise acutely reduced total blood levels of antioxidants in both groups. Levels of protein carbonyls increased by nearly four-fold in the placebo group, while vitamin C recipients experienced little or no elevation. This vital study demonstrates that vitamin C can protect against exercise-induced protein oxidation in a dose-dependent fashion.Muscle soreness after exercising can be a big disincentive to continue on a healthy fitness program. That’s why the subsequent findings of that UNC group are so important. The scientists gave vitamin C supplements (3,000 mg/day) or placebo to a group of 18 healthy men for two weeks before and four days after performing 70 repetitions of an elbow extension exercise. Not surprisingly, considerable muscle soreness ensued, but it was significantly reduced in the supplemented group. The release of creatine kinase, an indicator of muscle damage, was also attenuated with vitamin C, compared with the placebo group. Blood levels of natural antioxidants fell significantly in placebo subjects, while vitamin C supplementation completely prevented this change. Results such as these suggest that the supplemented group would be much more enthusiastic about exercising the next day!
Minimizing Unhealthy Lifestyle ChoicesVitamin C may offer important protective benefits for smokers and those who are passively exposed to to***co smoke. Smoking has been linked with elevated levels of C-reactive (CRP) protein, an inflammatory marker linked with an elevated risk of cardiovascular disease. As Life Extension readers know, it is crucial to monitor your CRP levels through regular blood testing and to keep your CRP under control in order to limit cardiovascular problems. Fortunately, vitamin C has been shown to play a role in helping to combat excessive CRP levels.Researchers in Berkeley evaluated the impact of antioxidant supplementation on blood levels of CRP in both active and passive smokers. They studied 160 healthy adults who were actively or passively exposed to cigarette smoke and randomly assigned to receive placebo, vitamin C (515 mg/day), or an antioxidant mixture (including vitamins C, E, and lipoic acid). Subjects in the vitamin C group underwent a significant 24% reduction in their plasma CRP concentrations, while neither of the other groups showed a significant change. This remarkable result provides strong support for chronic supplementation with vitamin C, whether or not you smoke.Smoking causes cancer in part by directly damaging DNA, which is a vital first step in the onset of cancer. In studying the effect of vitamin C supplements on reducing DNA damage in blood cells, Danish researchers gave relatively low doses (500 mg/day) of vitamin C as plain-release or slow-release tablets combined with vitamin E (182 mg/day), or placebo, for four weeks to a group of male smokers. The slow-release formulation of vitamin C reduced the number of DNA damage sites measured in white blood cells just four and eight hours after a single tablet, a positive result that was still evident at four weeks. The plain-release tablets also exerted a protective effect at four hours, suggesting benefits of long-term vitamin C supplementation in minimizing DNA damage.Once DNA is damaged, however, smoking induces pro-inflammatory changes that can allow a malignant cell to become a dangerous tumor as well as causing blood vessel damage associated with atherosclerosis. Vitamin C supplementation is a logical approach to reducing the impact of these inflammatory changes, as was shown recently by a British investigative team.15 They studied 10 smokers with the high-risk lipoprotein ApoE4 gene as well as 11 non-smokers, all of whom took just 60 mg/day of vitamin C for four weeks. Remarkably, these high-risk smokers on this low-dose regimen responded with a marked reduction in levels of a host of pro-inflammatory cytokines. As the authors themselves pointed out, this study identified core molecular mechanisms that help explain the known benefits of vitamin C supplementation in smokers.Literally scores of other studies have been published demonstrating the benefits of vitamin C supplements in smokers and those passively exposed to cigarette smoke. One study found that 500 mg of vitamin C twice daily for just two weeks reduced the depletion of vitamin E caused by smoking by up to 50%.Two other studies investigating low and high doses of vitamin C supplementation revealed its benefits in improving endothelial function, a cornerstone of cardiovascular health, known to be impaired in smokers. The first study showed that just 60 mg of vitamin C daily given to a group of smokers for 12 weeks improved endothelial function as assessed by flow-mediated vasodilation. In the second study, Dutch researchers found that 2,000 mg/day of vitamin C for two weeks reversed endothelial dysfunction caused by the abnormal migration of monocytes7 implicated in atherosclerosis.Furthermore, Berkeley public health researchers successfully reduced levels of F2-isoprostanes, a sign of oxidative stress and cell damage, in a group of 67 passive smokers who were given vitamin C supplements daily for two months. The researchers stressed the value of these findings in preventing to***co smoke-induced health damage in non-smokers

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