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| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Smoyak, Shirley A. |
| Copyright Year | 2003 |
| Abstract | Growth hormone is an anabolic hormone, which means that it builds up your body. It does this partly directly by regenerating tissues and mildly increasing the blood sugar level, partly indirectly by stimulating the secretion of another powerful hormone—called IGF-1 or insulin-like growth factor I—because of its analogy with insulin in structure and action (lowering the blood sugar level). Growth hormone not only builds up your muscles, blood vessels and bones more than testosterone—the male hormone—can, but it also builds up the nervous tissue, including the brain and its neurons (brain cells), and increases the blood sugar level to provide more energy. Thus, growth hormone has not only powerful actions on our physical appearance and health, but also, and even more, on our minds and moods. In the brain, growth hormone intensifies the number of contacts between the neurons or nerve cells while increasing their activity. In the nervous system, growth hormone strongly stimulates the parasympathetic nerves, the nerves that calm us down. In the blood, growth hormone increases the sugar level, the main substrate for energy in the neurons. These various actions of growth hormone on the brain may explain why it helps considerably to improve our memory and our capacity to multitask—doing different activities at almost the same time, while going from one into the other with easiness. They also explain why growth hormone may deeply reduce anxiety and provide a sort of sixth sense for many patients, or a capacity to find solutions all the time to almost any problem, while others who are not treated seem confused, hesitate, and turn around the pot when confronted with the same problems. Can meditation help to improve growth hormone effects? Meditation or spiritual practices may help to increase growth hormone. One hour of training, for example, significantly increased the blood concentrations of growth hormone in elderly men. Increases of 5 to 15% can be expected with such practices. This may not seem like much, but for people with borderline low growth hormone levels, it may make the entire difference. These increases in growth hormones may also explain some of the calmness and inner peace felt by practitioners after a session |
| Starting Page | 6 |
| Ending Page | 7 |
| Page Count | 2 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.3928/0279-3695-20030301-03 |
| Volume Number | 41 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.hertoghe.eu/wp-content/uploads/Week-2-IGF1-Growth-Hormone-1.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.3928/0279-3695-20030301-03 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
