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Anyone who's been on this site for more than 5 minutes knows how obsessed all these 14 yr olds are with using unnatural and unhealthy methods to increase hGH and IGF-1 levels. Have fun permanently fucking up your long term health and possibly shortening your lifespan as a result.
For those who are smart and wish to stay away from SARMS or other non-FDA approved enhancers, here is a pretty easy way to increase your hGH and subsequently IGF-1 levels NATURALLY.
The answer is very simple: start fasting. Every single day.
Why does fasting lead to increased hGH and IGF-1 levels?
As some of you know, Ghrelin is a gut hormone that tells our body to feel hungry. Whenever you feel hunger, it is because your body has produced Ghrelin. What many people don't know is that Ghrelin simultaneously encourages the production of hGh within the body. So when your body produces Ghrelin, it stimulates hGH production as well. And as it turns out, IGF-1 production is solely based on the levels of hGH present within your body, as IGF-1 is a hormone that your body produces to manage the hGH within it.
So, we are left with a simple flow of operations: Ghrelin is produced --> hGH is produced --> IGF-1 is produced alongside this hGH
Therefore, if we wish to naturally increase hGH and IGF-1 production, we must increase the amount of Ghrelin our body is producing on a daily basis. Since we know Ghrelin is produced when your stomach is empty to try and encourage your brain to find more food, this means we need to spend more time each day with an empty stomach. The solution, as mentioned, is fasting.
And yes, there have been many studies conducted in the past in which elongated hours of fasting (24 hrs+) led to hGH levels increasing FIVE FOLD. This is A LOT.
I am not telling you to start fasting for 24 hour increments, however, you should implement some sort of fasting regimen into your daily plan.
In my experience and prior knowledge with fasting, there is a certain threshold of hours that must be hit in order to reach the "peak fast" period. About 10 hours after your body has last ingested calories, it will reach the point where it has used up almost all of those calories (unless you ate an absurd amount), and will subsequently start producing Ghrelin at more frequent intervals as the survival instinct kicks in. We could refer to this 10 hour period as the warmup period. The way I have been able to make fasting as optimal as possible in the past is to try and align the end of this warmup period with around the time you wake up in the morning. This means by the time you wake up, your stomach will be pretty empty and ghrelin will start being produced almost immediately. Endure this for 4-7 hours, and then open your eating window, which can continue until around 2 hours before you plan to sleep (assuming you will sleep about 8 hours). Just as it is important to try and open the "peak fast" soon after/as you wake up, it is just as crucial to not open it too early. Trying to sleep when fasted is a terrible experience, so make sure you do not stop your eating window too many hours in advance of your sleep, or you may get insomnia (speaking from experience).
As for enduring those morning hours, drinking lots of water, black coffee (has to be black to avoid calories), or using nicotine can help suppress your appetite. Doing things to occupy your mind also helps time pass quicker. For those of you who eat breakfast every morning, it may take a week or two to get used to this, but it becomes pretty easy after a little bit of time.
You also need to be ready to shovel food down during the short eating window you have each day. Fasting should NOT affect the amount of calories/macros you had previously been consuming (unless you are also doing it to intentionally lower caloric intake). This means that if you had previously average 3000 calories a day throughout the whole day, you now have to consume this same amount throughout a much smaller window of time. I have never had issues with this personally; if anything it is more fun because you get to eat frequently during the window.
Remember that fasting to increase hGH and IGF-1 levels is meaningless if your body isn't getting enough calories and the proper macronutrients to work with in the first place.
You should tailor your own fasting plan to work with your schedule and current goals.
For those who are smart and wish to stay away from SARMS or other non-FDA approved enhancers, here is a pretty easy way to increase your hGH and subsequently IGF-1 levels NATURALLY.
The answer is very simple: start fasting. Every single day.
Why does fasting lead to increased hGH and IGF-1 levels?
As some of you know, Ghrelin is a gut hormone that tells our body to feel hungry. Whenever you feel hunger, it is because your body has produced Ghrelin. What many people don't know is that Ghrelin simultaneously encourages the production of hGh within the body. So when your body produces Ghrelin, it stimulates hGH production as well. And as it turns out, IGF-1 production is solely based on the levels of hGH present within your body, as IGF-1 is a hormone that your body produces to manage the hGH within it.
So, we are left with a simple flow of operations: Ghrelin is produced --> hGH is produced --> IGF-1 is produced alongside this hGH
Therefore, if we wish to naturally increase hGH and IGF-1 production, we must increase the amount of Ghrelin our body is producing on a daily basis. Since we know Ghrelin is produced when your stomach is empty to try and encourage your brain to find more food, this means we need to spend more time each day with an empty stomach. The solution, as mentioned, is fasting.
And yes, there have been many studies conducted in the past in which elongated hours of fasting (24 hrs+) led to hGH levels increasing FIVE FOLD. This is A LOT.
I am not telling you to start fasting for 24 hour increments, however, you should implement some sort of fasting regimen into your daily plan.
In my experience and prior knowledge with fasting, there is a certain threshold of hours that must be hit in order to reach the "peak fast" period. About 10 hours after your body has last ingested calories, it will reach the point where it has used up almost all of those calories (unless you ate an absurd amount), and will subsequently start producing Ghrelin at more frequent intervals as the survival instinct kicks in. We could refer to this 10 hour period as the warmup period. The way I have been able to make fasting as optimal as possible in the past is to try and align the end of this warmup period with around the time you wake up in the morning. This means by the time you wake up, your stomach will be pretty empty and ghrelin will start being produced almost immediately. Endure this for 4-7 hours, and then open your eating window, which can continue until around 2 hours before you plan to sleep (assuming you will sleep about 8 hours). Just as it is important to try and open the "peak fast" soon after/as you wake up, it is just as crucial to not open it too early. Trying to sleep when fasted is a terrible experience, so make sure you do not stop your eating window too many hours in advance of your sleep, or you may get insomnia (speaking from experience).
As for enduring those morning hours, drinking lots of water, black coffee (has to be black to avoid calories), or using nicotine can help suppress your appetite. Doing things to occupy your mind also helps time pass quicker. For those of you who eat breakfast every morning, it may take a week or two to get used to this, but it becomes pretty easy after a little bit of time.
You also need to be ready to shovel food down during the short eating window you have each day. Fasting should NOT affect the amount of calories/macros you had previously been consuming (unless you are also doing it to intentionally lower caloric intake). This means that if you had previously average 3000 calories a day throughout the whole day, you now have to consume this same amount throughout a much smaller window of time. I have never had issues with this personally; if anything it is more fun because you get to eat frequently during the window.
Remember that fasting to increase hGH and IGF-1 levels is meaningless if your body isn't getting enough calories and the proper macronutrients to work with in the first place.
You should tailor your own fasting plan to work with your schedule and current goals.