Fasting and Growth Hormone: The Real Effects vs. Hype
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.