By: MuscleSports.net
With thousands of supplements to rave about, an entire cloaked market of potent steroids and the debate about their legalization, why on earth would anyone want to discuss Human Growth Hormone (hGH)? Hasn't it been proven totally useless as a muscle builder?
Well, if that were true then why is every pro on the circuit injecting massive amounts of the stuff into his already crowded veins? It should be obvious that hGH is one of the most active hormones in the world today. The miracles of testosterone have amazed the world of bodybuilding with its regular turnout of 300-pound behemoths and she-men, but GH is another story altogether. When you take into account that hormones may hold the secret to stopping aging in its tracks and that GH is the hormone produced on the largest scale in the human body, it may be our own fountain of youth. I'm not saying that if you start injecting large amounts of an illegal substance you'll live to be 200, there is also the matter of tissue resistance, but again: every little bit helps. GH starts to decline in the body as we grow older. After the age of 30 it declines by 25 percent every decade, so by the time you hit 60 you are operating at 25 percent of original capacity. If hGH was present in the same amount throughout our lives we'd easily live to 140, be several inches taller and a lot more muscular.
Growth hormone was discovered in the 1920's and was isolated in the form of somatotropin in 1956. The benefits of hGH are immense, even today new research pops up regularly that reveals new uses for it. hGH is present in the body at a rate of 500 micrograms at any time in the blood of males between the ages of 20 and 30. It's produced by the anterior pituitary gland under the stimulation of the Hypothalamus (like LH, the testosterone precursor). The effects on our system are tremendous:
So you can tell the benefits are not few. What's an even bigger card in the weighing of hGH against testosterone and its derivatives is that it is not androgenic, causes no aromatization and shows no side effects in limited doses. It just makes you bigger, huge even in combination with testosterone. It is believed that we may benefit from doses up to 1 to 1.5 mg in the bloodstream. That is somewhere in the optimal range for natural GH.
Well that's the point everyone was hoping I'd get to. The ways to improving GH concentration is by utilizing the 4 areas of bodybuilding: Training, rest, nutrition and supplementation.
The first and surest way of stimulating GH release naturally is - TRAINING. Working out, putting the body under extreme stress, I'm sure it's something none of you are unfamiliar with. Intense workouts, energy-consuming events and long periods of physical exhaustion are keys in releasing more Growth Hormone because these catabolic states require extra protein synthesis and in case of lack of energy, fat metabolization to make up for glycogen depletion.
This is no doubt the most potent kind of GH release as it's targeted to meet the demands of the bodybuilder. Of course I'm not telling you anything new when I'm saying you have to work out to gain muscle mass. I hope. Moreover the production of this GH is a direct reaction to a catabolic state that is not wishful to those looking for gains.
The only interesting thing we can tell you is this: GH can be manipulated. The general rule of thumb when working out is never to train longer than 45 minutes because that's when GH tapers off and cortisol production sets in. But the half-life of hGH can be influenced. If you train 40 minutes for a month and increase it by 2 minutes every month, after 10 months, you could train for an hour without inducing a catabolic state. We here will always test the fact and push a little harder as we commonly do with our split workouts! 45 minutes is optimal but it also average, we strive for above average here at MuscleSports.net. We have found that working out in burst of 35-40 minutes followed by rest period of about 20 minutes allows our athletes to push hard for close to 90 minutes without and deterioration in strength, recovery, and health! Now that's training multiple body parts in a single workout say: Chest & Triceps! Chest training may last 35 minutes, rest for 15-20 then hit triceps! This formula has worked great for us, try it out and let us know what's you opinion. We are also assuming that your eating enough to sustain that kind of intensity say about 3500 to 5000 kcal a day depending on bodyweight. Your gonna need these calories to fuel your training and recovery. Don't skimp on your eating because NO AMOUNT OF TRAINING will due you any good with out proper food to fuel it!
75 percent of your total daily hGH output is produced while sleeping, and most of that in REM SLEEP. This again stresses the need for a good night's sleep, in case that hadn't quite dawned on you. Though cat naps may further your case a bit, it's unlikely that you can induce a deep enough sleep to start producing GH. This GH, in any case, is not near as potent as the other kinds because it is produced as a response to a need for sleep protection and a need for energy repletion for the next day, not so much in response to a need for EXTRA energy. But I think everyone understands that without this amount of GH other sources of GH will not be used as efficiently. Getting at least 8-10 hours of sleep is a sacrifice everyone should consider making if you want to get big in a hurry. Also getting 8-10 hours of sleep on a regular basis help your body produce more hGH output every time you sleep. Keeping steady sleeping hours of rest is greatly beneficial hGH output. If you stay out late on weekends it's important that you still wake up at the same time everyday instead of sleeping in late. Don't disturb your sleeping pattern. If you are used to sleeping from 10 to 8 and in the weekend you get home at 1, sleep until 8 and add a 1-hour nap every afternoon for the next 3-days to make up for the lack of sleep. But if at all possible maintain consistent sleeping hours.
Now we come to what is likely the most important section of the whole article - NUTRITION! NATURAL BODYBUILDERS looking to make the most of his/her GH levels should read and reread this section because we are gonna help you increase you hGH level allot using nutrition supplements and not synthetic substances. Now you need to adhere to the previous 2 section before you can make any head way using supplements. If your not training optimally or resting adequatly do expect supplements to replace bad habits, they SUPPEMENT your life style! They don't replace it! The search for natural GH secretagogues (secrete and agogue (to teach), so literally to teach to secrete or induce the production of) begins with the most basic of nutrients - AMINO ACIDS. But for aminos to have a good effect you need to make sure that 15-20 percent of your diet consists of clean fats - EFAs. These induce cholesterol, the storage of the base-hormone in the body that leads to the manufacture of most steroidogenic hormones. These 2 things are why legendary trainer & bodybuilder Vince Gironda recommended a 32 eggs a day diet for adding steriod like size and strength.
The ultimate goal of these paragraphs is to give you a complete supplement stack, with amounts of each of the amino acids that can synergistically produce more GH within the body. We will also give you some of the amounts you should be looking for on supplement that claim to induce GH production on the market today. We'll list them in order of importance fro hGH sercretion within the body! The order doesn't pertain to your overall eating plan just supplementation for hGH production.
The doses we're about to give you are the best range for maximizing GH in a pre-workout stack:
Other dietary sources of GH promoting nutrients are Vitamin C (ascorbic acid), Vitamin B3 and just about all of your antioxidants. Take your stack, which ever amino's it ends up consisting of, 45 minutes prior to your workout for maximal levels of Growth Hormone. On non-workout days, take your stack either before bed or in the morning, both on an empty stomach. If you wish to learn more about specific amino acids in this stack, or others that may be of benefit to your training regimen use these 2 articles to start: Know Your Aminos Acids & Protein and Amino-Acid Supplementation For Performance and Recovery. These two articles will help you get started on the right foot with your amino acid supplementation
The stack above is more than adequate to boost hGH gains by more than 50% when used on a daily basis. One important thing to remember is that of the use of protein to gain muscle mass, and it correlation to the potential amount of GH circulating when you maintain good protein levels throughout the day will make you change your mind about supplementation. Whey protein especially, and desiccated liver are high in arginine levels and when taken during the day keep nitrogen level high. Gearing protein intake to specific goals of keeping GH levels high a good motivating force to fix that eating plan of yours - just saying!
NO WE'RE not telling anyone to go get GH Injections! We don't think you should use them because the cost to benefit ratio is just not worth the price. That stuff add up quickly. GH supplementation has many of the same benefits at a much better cost and its allot healthier. It increases the protein synthesizing effect of testosterone and causes growth in muscle tissue. Unlike most steroidogenic substances your supplement (if clean) won't show up on a tests. What's more, just about all of them exert zero to very small side effects that have minimal health effects. We can't say that about the drugs because they cause everything to grow and that is NOT A GOOD THING!
Now having too much natural GH causes a medical condition called acromegaly. A person's muscles grow, but so do his bones, his face, his intestines. This give the individual the appearance of Frankenstein or Neanderthal Man. Not funny, huh? Plus the muscle you gain on GH is not functional. GH causes no gains in strength. Larger muscles naturally increases strength a little, but without training of the tendons and attachments, no strength increase is noticeable. The enlarged intestines are what cause the bloated guts on stage in many Mr. Olympia contestants. Only two substances can cause this type of bloating: IGF-1 (insulin-like Growth factor 1) and hGH. Some pros swear by the stuff because of it recuperative properties. It's been around since the mid-90s so its seen it time on the stage at all levels of competition sorry to say. For a long time the only source of GH was from cadavers. This held a great risk of infection with BSE (Kreutzfeld-Jakob disease) a debilitating disease that leads to death in weeks and is currently a hot topic because of recent cases in the European bovine stock as a result of processing animal waste in animal food. Now it's available as somatotropin, synthesized outside the body. Just stay away for the stuff entirely, it ain't worth the price you pay!
“So why did we bring up supplementation if it's illegal? Well how do you suppose you make an illegal drug a legal supplement? In the States there is a law that says that you can sell certain substances over the counter if they are below a certain concentration. So GH is currently being sold as a supplement, though suspended in alcohol. It is supposed to be absorbed sublingual (under the tongue) or through the nasal glands (in the nose). It's small enough to do this and yields high rates. It can't survive the digestive process and find a way into the blood through ingestion and the only other way is to inject it, which makes it illegal again. The law is the same one that allows ephedrine in fat-loss supps and pseudo-ephedrine in cold-medicine. The GH we are talking about here is not very effective, nor very cheap, but it pays off as a recovery supplement. I tried it once taking a few drops sublingual after every workout. I didn't gain much extra muscle, none to speak of, but I found that my muscles recovered faster, noticed a decrease in lactic acid buildup and slept better overall. So it has its merits. The downside: a pricetag of 90 or 100+ bucks for a months worth and that was years ago. I wouldn't regard this last paragraph as key to your supplementation regimen and take the three paragraphs prior to it, if you learn anything, but for those who had questions about legal GH, I hereby answered them.”
Big ZZZZ
hGH is a necessary factor in your training and recuperation, and knowing how to manipulate its release may be one of the most important steps you could make towards optimizing gains in muscle mass. Growth Hormone may not have revealed all its secrets yet, but to pass up on the benefits would be a bad deal and unacceptable for the hard-working hardgainer. Figure out your supplement stacking stick to it and never forget to FEED YOUR BODY! Training and supplementation depend very much on you feeding yourself correctly so don't skimp on the food or your GH Stack and you will see gains beyond your normal levels!
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