The PrimalFitDad Natural HGH Protocol
A guide to optimizing your body’s natural growth hormone production.
Welcome to a comprehensive protocol designed to naturally enhance and optimize your body’s Human Growth Hormone (HGH) production. This guide is built on the pillars of holistic health, combining lifestyle, dietary, and physical practices to create a powerful synergistic effect.
1. Stress Management & Environmental Purity
Chronic stress elevates cortisol, the primary antagonist to HGH. By managing stress, we remove a major block to optimal hormone function.
- Mindful Living: Incorporate daily meditation, breathwork, and mindfulness to calm the nervous system and lower cortisol.
- Remove Stressors: Actively work to minimize exposure to environmental toxins and chemicals that can disrupt hormonal balance.
2. Circadian Rhythm Regulation
Your body’s internal clock governs the nightly HGH pulse. Synchronizing it with the natural light cycle is key.
- Sunlight Exposure: Get natural light first thing in the morning and at sunset to set your internal clock.
- Morning Cold Therapy: A brief cold shower or ice bath can provide a positive stressor to regulate your rhythm and boost alertness.
- Earthing/Grounding: Spend time barefoot on the grass or soil to connect with the Earth’s natural electric charge.
3. Prioritizing Sleep Quality
The largest surge of HGH is released during deep sleep. Without it, you are missing the biggest opportunity to boost your levels.
- Consistent Schedule: Maintain a strict sleep schedule, going to bed and waking up at the same time daily.
- Wind-Down Routine: Create a routine 60-90 minutes before bed with activities like reading, meditation, or light stretching.
- Optimize Environment: Your bedroom should be cool, completely dark, and quiet.
4a. Strategic Diet, Fasting & Exercise
These Four pillars are mutually reinforcing. Combining them supercharges your body’s natural HGH output.
- Fasting: Implement intermittent fasting (e.g., 16/8 protocol) to lower insulin levels and allow HGH to rise.
- Diet: Focus on a low-carbohydrate diet high in healthy fats and quality protein while minimizing sugar and refined carbs.
- Pre-Workout Timing: Avoid sugar or carbs for at least 45 minutes before and during your workout to optimize the exercise-induced HGH spike.
- High-Intensity Training: Engage in High-Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) or heavy compound strength training to create a direct hormonal stimulus.
4b. Peptide Protocol
These three peptides aim at optimizing cortisol, sleep, circadian rhythm and signaling of growth hormone production. Combining them supercharges your body’s natural HGH output.
- CJC-1295 no DAC: Stimulates the natural release of Growth Hormone
- GHRP-2: Works synergistacilly with CJC-1295 to create a big surge of natural growth hormone release.
- DSIP: Delta Sleep inducing peptide helps optimize sleep and improve quality, getting to sleep and staying asleep.
- Synergy: Together they tackle all the major factors improving natural HGH production.
5. Weekly Sauna Therapy
Deliberate heat exposure is one of the most powerful external stressors you can use to trigger a dramatic HGH increase.
- Protocol: Aim for at least one session per week, consisting of 20-30 minutes at a high temperature.
- Synergy: Combine with a fasted state to amplify the hormonal response.
The Science Behind the Protocol
The Cortisol-HGH Relationship
Cortisol is a stress hormone designed to help you cope with immediate threats. However, when it’s chronically elevated, it directly interferes with HGH production. Research has shown a clear inverse relationship: as cortisol rises, HGH declines. Studies on meditation have shown that it can significantly reduce cortisol levels, creating a more favorable hormonal environment.
The Sleep-HGH Connection
Over 50% of your total daily HGH is secreted during the first few hours of deep sleep. A study from the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism showed that disrupting a subject’s sleep pattern severely blunted the nocturnal HGH pulse, demonstrating just how crucial quality sleep is.
The Insulin-HGH Connection
This is an extremely important relationship to understand. Insulin and HGH have a direct inverse relationship; where one is high, the other is suppressed. When you consume carbohydrates and sugar, your body releases insulin to regulate blood sugar. HGH production is effectively halted while insulin is present.
This is why nutrient timing is crucial. To maximize the HGH benefits from your workouts, sauna sessions, and sleep, you need to ensure insulin levels are low. Avoid all sugar and carbohydrates for at least 1-2 hours before these key activities. By improving your overall blood sugar control and insulin sensitivity through diet and exercise, you create an environment where your body can more easily produce HGH.
The Sauna-HGH Connection
Sauna use creates a hormetic (positive) stress response. Research has shown dramatic HGH increases after heat exposure. A study published in Growth Hormone & IGF Research found that two 15-minute sessions at 100°C (212°F) resulted in a five-fold increase in HGH levels. In some cases with more frequent sessions, researchers have observed a sixteen-fold increase.
A Day In My Life
Upon Waking
- Cold exposure (cold shower)
- CJC-1295 no DAC & GHRP-2
- Sun exposure
- Grounding & earthing
- Gratitude & breathwork
Breakfast (Fasted) & Post-Workout Meal
Breakfast: Eggs, Mince, Pineapple
Lunch: Steak, Eggs, Papaya
Post-Workout: Honey, Pineapple, Chicken Liver & Chicken Thigh, Potato
Gym & Sauna
- High-intensity strength training
- Weekly sauna session
Before Bed
- DSIP
- CJC-1295 no DAC & GHRP-2
- Melatonin & Magnesium
- Yoga & Meditation
*This is not my entire supplement, nutrition, lifestyle or peptide protocol but the ones mentioned are in relation to the growth hormone optimization. Customize this further to add in your additional goals or address other health handbrakes or imbalances to optimize your results and progress.
Where I Get My Products
DSIP
Delta sleep inducing peptide normalizes and regulate your sleep cycles. It does this by influencing several systems in the body: Promoting deep sleep, Hormone modulation (DSIP can influence the release of various hormones, including growth hormone (GH) and reduce cortisol) & Neurotransmitter regulation.
GHRP-2
GHRP-2 similarly to CJC-1295 no DAC helps your body release a large natural surge of growth hormone. Together they synergistically work together to help your body release even more growth hormone than used standalone.
CJC-1295
CJC-1295 without DAC, also known as Modified GRF (1-29), is a peptide that mimics the natural hormone Growth Hormone-Releasing Hormone (GHRH). It’s used to stimulate the pituitary gland to release your natural growth hormone (GH).
The benefits of increased growth hormone and IGF-1. Muscle Growth and Fat Loss, Improved Recovery, Anti-Aging Effects & Better Sleep.
Important Disclaimer Regarding Peptides
It’s important to consult with health professionals with expertise in this field. You can complete a free consult form at https://eternalwellness.center/consultation-form to receive free professional and personalized advice.