GROWTH HORMONE AND DIRT
A new study published by the National Institutes of Health pulls together a body of previous studies and makes it clear that women should be doing anaerobic exercise – high-intensity wind sprints rather than standard, long, slow cardio.
Anaerobic sprinting types of exercise – running, cycling, swimming, cross country skiing – are shown by medical researchers to make the body produce significant amounts of anti-aging growth hormone.
It’s no secret that several well-known entertainers take growth hormone (GH) injections for its body fat cutting, muscle toning, youth rejuvenating properties, but there can be serious side-effects from GH injections.
Unquestionably “natural,” home-made, and free
Natural is always best. And producing growth hormone from high-intensity exercise is unquestionably “natural.”
Growth hormone injections are given to children with clinical stature growth problems to help them grow normally. Growth hormone does not make adults grow taller.” For middle-age adults, GH can reverse several measurable clinical factors of the middle-age bulge – officially named “the somatopause” by researchers.
The middle-age somatopause is signified by energy decline, weight-gain (around the middle, and hips), loss of muscle, and wrinkled skin after the age of 30.
Researchers report;
“Aging is often associated with a progressive decrease in the volume and, especially, the intensity of exercise. A growing body of evidence suggests that higher intensity exercise is effective in eliciting beneficial health, well-being and training outcomes. In a great many cases, the impact of some of the deleterious effects of aging could be reduced if exercise focused on promoting exercise produced growth hormone.“ (“The exercise-induced growth hormone response in athletes,” Godfrey, Sports Med. 2003;33(8):599-613.2003)
Do women get the same benefit as men from high-intensity exercise?
NO!
Women get a better response
Researchers show that women actually get a slightly better growth hormone response from high-intensity exercise than men.
Researchers from the University of Virginia Clinical Research Center conclude; “Gender comparisons revealed that women had greater production rate, and a trend for a greater mass of GH secreted per pulse than men,” (Gender governs the relationship between exercise intensity and growth hormone release in young adults, 2002, Pritzlaff-Roy).
Since researchers show that HGH growth hormone releasing exercise occurs in a linear dose-response to high-intensity training, you should evaluate your current fitness program and ask the question, “Am I really training hard, or am I just going through the motions.” DIRT FITNESS IS HIGH INTENSITY!! 
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