Prolonged Fasting and IGF-1

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 10 January 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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How does prolonged fasting affect IGF-1? Listen to this podcast to find out.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Doctor Berg, Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast.
0:07.0	Now, your host, the man taking your health to a whole new level.
0:12.0	Doctor Eric Berg.
0:14.0	Today we're going to talk about pro long fasting and IGF number one.
0:19.0	Now what is IGF number one?
0:21.0	I've done other videos on this and it stands for insulin-like growth factor number one.
0:27.0	It's a hormone that is made in the liver.
0:30.0	It's stimulated by growth hormone and it acts like growth hormone in the body.
0:34.0	So it's kind of an extension of growth hormone.
0:37.0	Growth hormone is made by the pituitary.
0:39.0	It goes down the liver.
0:40.0	It triggers the liver to make IGF.
0:43.0	Now, IGF is vitally important to the growth and development of tissues in the body.
0:50.0	So whatever the functions of growth hormone are, those are the same functions as IGF.
0:56.0	And when you're not eating insulin goes down, IGF goes up to mobilize fat to actually give you fuel.
1:03.0	So it's one of the fat burning hormones.
1:05.0	So it's a vital hormone.
1:07.0	But when you look through the research on this, there's an association to increasing the risk of cancer if IGF is too high.
1:16.0	Now it's not that IGF number one, it's not the sole cause of cancer.
1:20.0	It's involved in cancer because it's anabolic hormone.
1:24.0	It makes things grow.
1:26.0	And it inhibits something called apoptosis.
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