Sleep and Growth Hormone
Most guys know that growth hormone burns fat and increases lean muscle mass.
However, not as many know growth hormone is very dependent on sleep. Growth
hormone is one of your truest friends: it directly and positively effects
the brain and "mental agility" as one set of researchers put it. [6]
Really Human Growth Hormone's capabilites goes beyond
this and it is now recognized as directly improving learning and memory. [7] Yes, you can rebuild your brain even in middle
age and beyond if you let your body squeeze out this precious hormone
while you're snoozing. (For other ways way to churn out Growth Hormone,
read this link on How to Boost Growth Hormone Naturally and Interval
Training.)
And, just as with testosterone, sleep deprivation leads to no normal nocturnal
Growth Hormone surge. Zip. Nada. It's this simple: if you
deny yourself sleep, you get a drastically blunted Growth Hormone response. One
set of researchers summarized that "the nocturnal Growth Hormone surge is largely
sleep-dependent." [8] That's pretty clear
language for scientific researchers: if you want Growth Hormone rebuilding
your body and mind, you must have lengthy, quality sleep.
You might be saying, "Well, that only applies to those
fools who engage in total sleep deprivation". Au contraire! One study
found, as is the case with testosterone, an almost linear
relationship between Growth Hormone and slow-wave sleep. [9] This kind of deep sleep becomes progressively more difficult as we age:
sometimes we just plain have to work at it. The linearity that the researchers
discovered means on a practical level that the more you sleep, the more Growth
Hormone you’ll have and the more sleep you lose, the less Growth Hormone you’ll
have, all other things being equal.
Optimizing Growth Hormone is often a concern of many
dads who want their child to be as tall as possible, since Growth Hormone
governs height for those of us with kids.
Of course, height is mostly a function of heredity, but I tell them that
the safest way to optimize Growth Hormone is through sleep. There is no
study that I know that correlates height and sleep, but it is likely somewhat of
a factor in the growth and development of your kids.
By the way, did I mention that Growth Hormone even stimulates additional testosterone
production? Growth Hormone creates a cascade of increasing IGF-1, FSH (Follicle
Stimulating Hormone), LH (Leutinizing Hormone), which ultimately leads to increases
in testosterone (and estrogen but proportionally of course). The increases
may not be huge but every little bit helps!
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So the bottom line is that optimization and maximization of your growth hormone
output requires you to just be disciplined and put your head down on that
pillow.
NOTE: For more information , see my links on sleep, see my pages on
Sleep and Testosterone,
Rebuild Your Brain Through Sleep,
Sleep and Strong Erections and
Natural Sleep Aids.
