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Old Mon, Mar-05-18, 16:40
dcc0455 dcc0455 is offline
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Originally Posted by M Levac
It's quite impossible to raise hormone levels like testosterone and HGH beyond normal just with a ketogenic diet. They are tightly regulated by feedback loops. For example, testosterone gets converted to estrogen by aromatase, then estrogen plugs into a receptor (I forget where exactly) to, in turn, reduce testosterone production.


Would that statement also apply to intermittent fasting? I see a lot of claims that IF will increase those hormones.
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