So today we're going to talk about the fasting influence over growth hormone. Now, why

is that important? Because as you age, growth hormone decreases more and more and more and

more. To the point where you're in your 60s or 70s or 80s and there's not much left.

The problem with that is that it affects your proteins, your skin. So your skin starts

looking older, your joints fall apart, you lose muscle mass, you lose your hair. But other

than that, you're doing good. Growth hormone helps to preserve proteins that help you

look useful. It actually helps with body fat. So it's one of the main fat burning hormones.

It also helps in building lean muscle mass. Thus the word growth hormone. And it preserves

muscle. So it prevents the loss of muscle. It also is involved with bone density, making

sure your bones are dense and strong. And collagen, which is involved in a lot of different

things, including your skin. So without collagen, your skin can look old very quickly. Growth

hormone peaks at puberty. And every year it decreases. It spikes when you're sleeping.

It's suppressed when you're eating, especially carbohydrates. You can spike growth hormone

with high intensity interval training. You can also suppress growth hormone with stress.

But you can dramatically increase growth hormone through fasting. I'm going to put some links

down below referencing some of the studies. But it's been shown that in a two day fast,

you can potentially increase growth hormone by 200%. A three day fast, up to 300%. And

in one report, with a seven day fast, there was a spike with growth hormone by 1,250%.

Fasting will help you with all of these factors right here, especially preserving muscle.

Because there's this thought that if I stop eating, I'm going to lose my muscle mass.

That is not going to happen for a period of time. If you're starving and you tapped out

all your fat, yeah, then there's going to be a problem because your body's going to go

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