Everyone of us need "raw materials" such as essential fatty acids, minerals and vitamin to manufacture growth hormone. I believe water fasting for long term will significantly deplete the level of your body's essential nutrients . Any sign of degradation of bodily function should serve as a warning that your body is deficient on certain nutrients.
The Okinawans, famed for their good health and longeivity, have significantly higher sex hormone than the rest of world. I believe their secret lies in optimal nutrition (mostly home grown whole food), clean water, exercise, adequate rest, healthy family life and sun exposure.
The Okinawa Centenarian Study : Evidence based gerontology Effect of essential fatty acid deficiency on membrane fatty acid content and growth hormone stimulation of rat pituitaries during postnatal development -- Soares et al. 36 (6): 1401 -- Journal of Lipid Research Quote:
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Two-day-old EFA-deficient rats paradoxically exhibited a higher level of 20:4n-6 as compared to control rats. EFA-deficiency also decreased growth rate and GH pituitary responses to GHRH during the prepubertal period. These results suggest that changes in the lipid structure and in pituitary secretion properties elicited by EFA-deficiency depend upon the stage of development.
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