Sleep is one of important daily process in our life. But, right now in the United States alone, it is estimated that approximately 60 – 80 million people have some form of sleep disorder. This number continues to rise. The hustle and bustle of life can become so overwhelming that sleep becomes the first thing to sacrifice. Many people can admit that for whatever reason they do not get enough sleep and it affects not only the body function but also our mind.
Sleep allows our body to rest. But, many people do not realize that while their body may be asleep their mind and other bodily functions are not. The sleep period allows the body to regroup and recharge. As I mentioned before on my previous article, sleeping is our body’s primary opportunity to produce growth hormone, a hormone that produce in our brain that can give so many benefits to our overall health. But, the problem is, as we get older, our need to sleep relatively decreased. The time spent eight hours for sleep by older adults will continue to experience significant declines with age. Older adults are often wake up and spend more time while awake than those of younger adults. This can bring so many unwanted impacts to our body. What are the impacts if we lack of sleep?
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We just passed our holiday season, and holiday is often noted as period for weight gain. Eventually, weight gain can lead us to….obesity. Today, the problem of obesity is so alarming that several millions of USD is being spent on researches on the best way people can avoid it with minimum effort. Recently, our First Lady Michelle Obama at The White House is gearing up for a campaign to end the obesity epidemic and raise the health in this country. She really concerned about this problem because currently more than 1 billion adults are overweight – and at least 300 million of them are clinically obese. Now, you may wonder: what can cause obesity? Well, one of the main cause of obesity epidemic is a hormone called cortisol.
Cortisol is a hormone, produced by the adrenal gland when the body is under stress. Cortisol is released as part of your daily hormonal cycle, but it can also be released in reaction to perceived stress as part of the body’s fight-or-flight response that is essential for survival. Cortisol helps your body more effective at producing glucose from proteins, and is designed to help quickly increase the body’s energy in times of stress. But stress–both physical and emotional-–can lead us to a constant state of excess cortisol production. Excess cortisol stimulates glucose production. This excess glucose then typically is converted into fat, ending up as stored fat in your body.
But, never fear, though: Growth Hormone is here. Also known as the “fountain of youth”, growth hormone is the single most effective compound your body can produce to affect both fat loss and muscle gain. The more you produce, the faster you’ll lose fat and build muscle. It’s just as simple as that. Now, in addition to that awesome little fact, growth hormone is going to whoop cortisol’s ass and help you burn belly fat. But how can we get our body to produce more growth hormone?
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HGH is a hormone produced by the pituitary gland, and it's present at our brain. For children and teenager, the main function of this hormone is to stimulate their growth and help maintain tissues and organs throughout their life. But, it so happens that sometimes the pituitary gland does not produce adequate amounts of growth hormone. Inadequate or no hormone can be caused due to abnormal pituitary gland or some syndrome. This low amount of growth hormone production conduces to slower growth of the child and resulting in shorter stature, increased amounts of fat around the waist, low growth velocity, delayed tooth development and the child appearing younger than his or her age.
Early diagnosis is very important for a growth hormone deficient child. To obtain the best results, a child must be diagnosed and treated at a relatively young age. Accurate annual measurements and plotting of a child’s growth chart allows for identification of growth failure and treatment before the child’s bones fuse. Once fusing has taken place, no additional growth is possible.
Now, there are treatments available for children with low growth hormone, using synthetic human growth hormone injections. These treatments is widely known among the parents, but these kind of treatments have some downsides. First, they are only available by prescription. Taking these injections will cause the pituitary glands to
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Sleep is one of important daily process in our life. But, right now in the United States alone, it is estimated that approximately 60 – 80 million people have some form of sleep disorder. This number continues to rise. The hustle and bustle of life can become so overwhelming that sleep becomes the first thing to sacrifice. Many people can admit that for whatever reason they do not get enough sleep and it affects not only the body function but also our mind. 