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What Is Somatopause?
Somatopause is the gradual growth hormone production and secretion decline due to normal aging. The pituitary gland is the response for secreting growth hormone in humans. Throughout your life, your pituitary gland puts out growth hormones to perform critical functions in the body. However, at around age 30, the amount of growth hormone secretion in both men and women starts to decline. This decline goes down steadily the longer adults live. When these hormones start to go down, the body experiences changes associated with cognitive performance, sexual desire, depression, other mood changes, muscle development, and more. For instance, a 70-year-old male will only generate around 60% of the growth hormone…
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How to Increase Your Cognitive Performance
In a perfect world, we’d all want to have the fastest, most efficient minds possible so that our daily tasks could be achieved with the most speed and ease. Imagine having a body that is high energy coupled with a mind that is awake, sharp, and ready to tackle any problem you may throw at it from any point of view. That would be ideal, wouldn’t it? Many people may crave a quick mind to help with academic performance– acing Advanced Placement tests in high school, the SATs, or the ACTs, being a whiz in your studies during law school. Many may crave it not for working towards the jobs…
