{"id":221586,"date":"2025-09-09T03:46:40","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T08:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/heres-how-sleep-strengthens-muscle-and-bone-by-boosting-growth-hormone-levels"},"modified":"2025-09-09T03:46:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T08:46:40","slug":"heres-how-sleep-strengthens-muscle-and-bone-by-boosting-growth-hormone-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/heres-how-sleep-strengthens-muscle-and-bone-by-boosting-growth-hormone-levels","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s how sleep strengthens muscle and bone by boosting growth hormone levels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/heres-how-sleep-strengthens-muscle-and-bone-by-boosting-growth-hormone-levels.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As every bodybuilder knows, a deep, restful sleep boosts levels of growth hormone to build strong muscle and bone and burn fat. And as every teenager should know, they won\u2019t reach their full height potential without adequate growth hormone from a full night\u2019s sleep.<\/p>\n<p>But why <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/lack+of+sleep\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">lack of sleep <\/a>\u2014in particular the early, deep phase called non-REM sleep\u2014lowers levels of growth hormone has been a mystery.<\/p>\n<p>In a study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/cell\/fulltext\/S0092-8674(25)00626-9\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Cell<\/i>, researchers from University of California, Berkeley, dissect the brain circuits that control growth hormone release during sleep and report a novel feedback mechanism in the brain that keeps growth hormone levels finely balanced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As every bodybuilder knows, a deep, restful sleep boosts levels of growth hormone to build strong muscle and bone and burn fat. And as every teenager should know, they won\u2019t reach their full height potential without adequate growth hormone from a full night\u2019s sleep. But why lack of sleep \u2014in particular the early, deep phase [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}