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(Michael - When reality fails to meet expectations, the problem is not reality.) #1

Posting this for comments, thanks.

#2

I enjoyed that! Thanks!

The best takeaway for me was not to take supplements for what your body is meant to produce itself, because one will stop producing it. In my case I take melatonin. I need to get at the cause of sleep issues rather than take a pill at night.

Here is what I don’t cogitate: Fasting increases HGH but how long does the uptick last? Is it for the duration of the fast or is it longer?

#3

Except that’s not quite true. Our bodies are supposed to do a lot of things they don’t, supplements fix that. I’m all for trying to do things as naturally as possibly but a lot things look and sound great on paper and don’t don’t really happen in real life.

I’ve tried every single way to boost HGH naturally there is I think. Fasting (16:8, 18:6, ADF, all the way up to 8 days!) I’ve used growth hormone secretagogues and peptides like Ipamorelin, CJC-1295, MK-677 you name it. You know what I noticed as far as elevated HGH differences… ZERO! (better sleep with the MK-677 to be fair) I can now say as somebody that uses real HGH every night that 2iu of HGH makes a night and day difference! Not even REMOTELY comparable to the others. 2iu of growth gives you a descent bump, people like this guy and others like him are promoting multi hundred increases in growth hormone… NONSENSE!

(Karen) #4

I do wonder about some of this. Cortisol seeming to do the opposite of melatonin. Cortisol is produced from stress. As far as I can tell I have no stress at all in my life. I am retired, I have shelter, I have sufficient funds, and friends, and no huge health problems. If I take melatonin at night I end up with wonderful dreams. If I don’t, I don’t have them. I have two hours of rem sleep.
Additionally as an older person I don’t seem to have enough stomach acid to digest correctly. So I take some HCl. It makes a world of difference. When he says your body will make the correct amount of things like stomach acid if you reduce your stress and increase your HGH I wonder. Anyway it was an interesting listen.

#5

Looking through his videos, he seems to be really into ACV. Tomato - tomato.

But I think what he was trying to say was, “don’t mess with the hormones” and that is advice I am happy to listen to at this time.

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #6

The human body is a complex set of complex processes, and tampering with it without full information risks causing more harm than good. When the dietary guidelines were first being considered by the U.S. Congress, several physicians cautioned that it was risky to perform such a massive experiment on the nation’s health. But their warnings were rejected with the counter-argument, “What harm could eating this way possibly cause?”

And we now know the answer to that question, don’t we?

(Ken) #7

Typical Pseudo-Guru type spouting concepts known in the Fitness Community for literally decades. He missed on several points, primarily the antagonistic relationship of both the Insulin-Glucagon, as well as the HGH-Cortisol hormonal pairs. There are also many, many other Anorexigenic and Orexigenic hormonal pairs involved. He didn’t even bother to mention Glucagon, let alone Lipolyisis, considering he talked quite a bit about energy pathways.

Mostly correct video, but fairly Superficial.

(Michael - When reality fails to meet expectations, the problem is not reality.) #8