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Fasting and Growth Hormone: The Real Effects vs. Hype

Summary & Verdict

💡TL;DR: Some truth, but loads of exaggeration on fasting and growth hormone boosts.

🚦Sus 🚩 - 7/10

🔥Hot Take: A two-day fast won’t turn you into Hercules. But yes, fasting can raise your growth hormone—just not THAT much.

🔗Original Post: https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1BzhHPwG9B

Claim Breakdown:

🎯 Reality Check: Sus 🚩 (7/10)

📝 Why: Fasting does temporarily boost growth hormone by up to 5x (500%), not 20x (2000%)! The numbers here are widely cited online but not really backed by peer-reviewed studies in humans.

🔗 Source: Short-term fasting increases growth hormone secretion—see “Fasting enhances growth hormone secretion and amplifies the complex rhythms of growth hormone secretion in man,” Ho et al., 1988.


🐟 Biggest Whopper:

That 2,000% growth hormone boost claim is way overblown.

🙌 Actually True:

GH deficiency as a real condition in kids and adults—yep, that’s textbook medicine.