What’s up, guys?
Sean Nalewayj, www.SeanNal.com and I wanted to make a quick video today answering a subscriber
question.
The question being about natural, over the counter HGH boosters, basically just asking
if growth hormone boosting supplements have any real use when it comes to building muscle
or burning fat.
So if you flipped open any fitness magazine or even just scrolled through most typical
bodybuilding websites online then you’ve probably seen those ads for HGH releasers.
They’re pretty much everywhere and they usually have a long list of claimed benefits
like increasing fatloss, building muscle, enhancing sleep and focus and even slowing
down or reversing aging.
So first off, what is growth hormone?
Just really simply it is a hormone that is produced in the pituitary gland.
It gets released into your body [Indiscernible] throughout the day and the highest amount
gets released just after you fall asleep and during exercise.
Particularly during types of training that create large amounts of lactic acid so higher
rep-shorter rest period types of workouts.
And then once that growth hormone gets released it causes your liver to produce insulin-like
growth factor of IGF-1, which maybe you’ve heard about, and IGF-1 then goes on to play
a ton of different roles in the body.
Now, a lot of people think of growth hormone as being a powerful muscle builder but the
research doesn’t actually support that.
If we’re talking about people with an actual growth hormone deficiency then yes it will
build muscle effectively but in otherwise healthy people it’s not really a significant
muscle builder unless you use it at extremely high doses.
And even then, keep in mind that growth hormone doesn’t just increased muscle mass but it
also increases the size of your organs and your viscera, which is why you’ll often
see those bloated looking bodybuilders with distended looking stomach usually called a
GH-gut.
So, growth hormones main effects aren’t so much muscle building related but more so
they’re related to fatloss.
It is a pretty powerful fat burner and it’s also used as, sort of, a recuperation tool
for enhancing recovery in between workouts or for athletes who want to stay in top condition
between training sessions.
And it also plays a role in healing injuries as well, so for these reasons that a lot of
enhanced bodybuilders and athletes use growth hormone to get those effects.
So yes, actual exogenous human growth hormone itself does have a pretty significant collection
of benefits but the real question here is whether or not natural, over the counter HGH
boosters can replicate or even come close to replicating those same effects.
And the short and simple answer is that: No, they can’t.
There are compounds out there that can increase growth hormone levels naturally but the increases
that you’ll get are almost certainly not going to be large enough or sustained over
a long enough period to where you’ll actually, noticeably loose more fat or build more muscle
as a result.
So supplements like L-Arginine, gaba, [Indiscernible], glutamine, Alpha-GPC, there’s a few others
as well, all of these have been shown in research to give you temporary spikes in growth hormone
but those spikes aren’t that large and they do fall back to baseline pretty quickly as
well.
I’m not going to go into all the details in this video on all the different popular
growth hormone boosters that are out there, otherwise the video will just drag on forever,
but I will put a brief overview of some of the research on each one in the description
box if that is something that interest you.
Just keep in mind that boosting growth hormone in and of itself doesn’t really tell us
much of anything and the question that you really need to ask is by how much and for
how long.
Because just like with testosterone, HGH levels have to be significantly increased above baseline
for an extended period of time in order for it to make any real difference to your actual
body composition.
And most study using exogenous growth hormone, they boost those levels by around three hundred
to six hundred percent and they keep them there for an extended period.
And there’s just no research available to show that any natural growth hormone supplements
can come anywhere near this.
So it’s possible that combining certain supplements along with other natural methods
like maintaining a healthy bodyfat level, sleeping well, exercising regularly, fasting,
it’s possible that it could deliver some overall health benefits when combined with
those things but if you’re specifically using a natural growth hormone booster to
directly burn more bodyfat then you’re likely wasting your money and if you’re using it
build more muscle then you’re almost certainly wasting your money.
Because it’s just not going to raise GH levels by a high enough amount in the overall
picture regardless of what all those supplement companies try to tell you.
So, thanks for watching guys.
I hope this was helpful.
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