Welcome to another edition of Friday Health Check! Tomorrow morning I am off to the beautiful resort town of Whistler for a weekend-long loss prevention seminar. It is considered a work event so the bonus is that I will be paid for my time up there in addition to having my transportation, lodging and food taken care of 
Hopefully, I’ll be able to make some updates while I’m up there but I don’t have a laptop so the next site update may not be until Monday evening when I get back home. I need a laptop!
GH Increases More in Men than Women During Exercise
Growth hormone (GH) promotes growth during childhood and plays a pivotal role in fat, carbohydrate and protein metabolism in adults. GH elevations during exercise are linked to decreased body fat and increased protein synthesis that occur after exercise (i.e., the training response). When you lift weights, growth hormone helps remodel muscle during recovery and promotes increases in muscle mass.
In endurance sports, GH stimulates tissue repair in response to repeated trauma induced by training. Researchers from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro found that GH increased in proportion to exercise duration during aerobic exercise. Also, GH increased more in men than women in response to the same relative exercise load. The results of this study help explain why prolonged exercise (greater than 60 minutes) works best for training-induced fat loss. (Journal Applied Physiology, 101:1641-1647, 2006)
Posted on June 1st, 2007 by Leo
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