Boost Growth Hormone As You Age

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 28 October 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Let’s talk about the best ways to increase growth hormone, especially as you age.

In adults, growth hormone is crucial for muscle building and fat burning. It’s also important for building tendons, ligaments, collagen, joints, and bones. However, growth hormone dramatically decreases with age.

Side effects of a deficiency in growth hormone can include:

• Difficulty building muscle

• Cognitive issues

• Lowered mood

• Higher levels of LDL

• Hair loss

• Insomnia

Here are the top things that can block growth hormone:

• Insomnia

• Sleep apnea

• High blood sugar

• High insulin

• Chronic stress

• Liver problems

The pituitary gland produces growth hormone. Instead of replacing the hormone with a synthetic version, why don’t we support the gland that makes growth hormone?

How to increase growth hormone naturally:

1. Try Pituitrophin PMG from Standard Process

2. Do intense exercise

3. Take milk thistle (if you have a liver problem)

4. Get on the Healthy Keto® diet

5. Do cold immersion therapy

6. Do heat therapy

7. Do intermittent fasting

Some people find their muscles look flat or dehydrated after getting on keto. In this situation, it’s important to drink plenty of water with electrolytes, especially potassium and sodium. This will help keep the muscles hydrated. You could also try increasing your carbs to 50 grams per day by consuming foods like berries but still avoiding refined carbs and sugar.

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0:00.0	I'd like to discuss a very, very important hormone called growth hormone in relationship to how
0:05.5	to increase it, especially as you age. Unfortunately, as we age, growth hormone just really tanks.
0:13.2	If you're over 65 years old, your growth hormone is likely to be 65% lower than what it should be.
0:21.0	And growth hormone in an adult versus a child works completely differently. So if you don't have
0:26.9	enough growth hormone as a kid, you're going to be shorter. But in an adult, it has everything to do
0:32.4	with protein synthesis. I'm talking about muscle building, building of your tendons, your ligaments,
0:40.8	your collagen, your joints, and your bones. Now, what's pretty wild about this is that the levels
0:49.5	of growth hormone in someone over the age of 60 are equivalent to someone younger with a growth
0:55.3	hormone deficiency pathology or some dysfunction with the pituitary gland because the pituitary gland
1:02.0	makes growth hormone. So a lot of people are deficient in growth hormone and they don't connect
1:07.1	the dots on what that's doing to their body. They're going to have a difficult time building muscle.
1:12.3	The growth hormone also has everything to do with fat burning, the breaking down of lipids or fats,
1:18.0	primarily in your midsection. So someone with lower growth hormone is going to have a problem with
1:23.9	muscle building. They're going to have cognitive issues. Usually have a lower mood relating to either
1:30.4	depression or anxiety. They may have higher levels of LDL, hair loss, and insomnia. But growth hormone
1:38.4	in typical an adult helps you with protein, very similar to testosterone. So not only does growth
1:46.4	hormone go down as you age, testosterone also goes down as well. So growth hormone is produced by
1:52.6	the pituitary gland that's in your brain and that hormone signal comes down and works through your
1:58.8	liver initially and it works with this other thing. It's like a hormone. It's called insulin-like
2:04.4	growth factor number one. Now it sounds kind of a strange name, but basically you can think of that
2:09.9	very similar to growth hormone because it has very similar functions except for growth hormone has
2:15.4	a more potent effect on fat burning. Whereas IGF1 or insulin growth factor number one has a weaker
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