Intermittent Fasting, Fat Loss & Growth Hormone

Unless you’re hiding under a rock, or don’t take a lot of interest in fitness, you’ve probably heard about intermittent fasting.  Here’s a quick synopsis of why intermittent fasting is great for fat loss, growth hormone, testosterone release and more. John Romaniello promotes this as his strategy in Engineering The Alpha and I’ve been sampling it myself too recently. If you’re trying to shift some body fat, I’d highly recommend giving it a go – your body gets used to it pretty quickly. We fast whilst we sleep anyway, so why not stay fasting to allow that growth hormone to increase and for maximum fat burning effects!

1. It’s a well researched fact that every time you eat something, your testosterone levels will plummet (it doesn’t matter if it’s only fat, only carbs, or only protein). Thus eating breakfast and multiple small meals throughout the day would only plummet your testosterone levels with every meal. When doing IF you’ll consume your calories in a shorter window, which means that you’re not negatively altering your hormones throughout the whole day.

2.In this study the researchers noted that in non-obese healthy single men, short ramadan fast was enough to increase serum luteinizing hormone (LH) levels by a staggering 67%! (LH is the direct precursor hormone of testosterone).

3. In the same study those healthy non-obese single guys noted an amazing 180% increase in serum testosterone levels, just from short period of fasting. Meaning that intermittent fasting will have instant effect on your testosterone levels.

4.In this human study, the researchers saw that after 24 hours of consuming no calories, growth hormone levels were elevated 2000% from the baseline. Growth hormone rises in correlation with testosterone and is highly anabolic. Meaning that the result of this study is nothing short of amazing.

5. Intermittent fasting is by far the fastest way to burn body fat (12 hours in fasted state and your enzymes will shift to burning body fat as fuel). The lower your body fat, the higher your testosterone. (providing that you’re a man of course).

6.Fasting induces autophagy, which is the process where your cells remove toxins and estrogenic chemicals from them. Obviously getting rid of xeno-estrogenic toxins is pro-testosterone.

7.Fasting down regulates leptin, and decreased leptin will stimulate testosterone secretion.

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