Vitamin C and Human Growth Hormone

Vitamin C and Human Growth Hormone

Vitamin C has a positive, direct association with human growth hormone (GH) secretion and overall production. Clinical research shows that peak stimulated growth hormone levels are strongly linked to dietary vitamin C intake. Higher vitamin C levels correlate with increased basal GH secretion, a longer GH half life, higher total GH production and elevated overnight growth hormone pulses.

Individuals with obesity often experience lower natural growth hormone output alongside reduced plasma vitamin C concentrations, though direct intervention studies continue to evaluate whether raising vitamin C can actively reverse these deficits

Studies have observed the correlation of reduced vitamin C concentration in decreased growth hormone secretion, in obese patients, increased waist hip ratio and increased heart disease risk

This why I say a tablet of 50 mg Vitamin C, a day wont do any harm to one’s health and it is cheaper than eating an apple that had been on the supermarket shelf from the last season, when I was in United Kingdom in 1980s. Yes consuming more vitamin C leafy vegetables containing Vitamin C is a good health habit and  may help increase HGH which is a vital hormone released by the hypothalamus.