Since most of the secretogogues consist of amino acids, which are the building blocks of protein, we would do well to include sufficient quantities of complete proteins in our diet. Foodstuffs like meat, poultry, fish, tofu, and cottage cheese are all excellent sources of protein and have been promoted lately with diets like: The Zone, Protein Power, and the Atkins Diet.

Besides the amino acids already mentioned, there are some B vitamins that have also demonstrated the capacity to act as HGH releasers. These include Vitamin B6 and Niacin.

You Are What You Eat.
This expression was making the rounds some years back, and there is a great deal of truth in it. If we do not embrace a good, all-round diet, our health in general suffers, and this will reflect itself in many ways, including our manufacture and output of HGH. Therefore, in addition to taking secretogogues and ensuring an intake rich in protein, one would be wise to effect a diet that considered all aspects of nutrition, about which more will be said later.

You Are As Much As You Eat.
This statement might hold another bit of "food for thought". That is, the more we eat - over and above an optimal limit - the more we will pack on as fat. Even if it is food that is good for us. And these extra pounds of fat will, especially when occurring in abundance, have a deleterious effect on our health. In addition to the expected hazards to our health (increased risk of heart attack, diabetes, etc.), one study showed that fat, along with age, correlated significantly with reduced levels of HGH in the body. To put it another way, the study indicated that the levels of HGH ended to be affected by these two factors (age and obesity), so that lower levels of HGH tended to be found in older subjects of similar weight groups, as well as in overweight subjects of similar age groups.

In view of this finding, for people who are overweight, cutting down on the food intake will provide not only the normal, expected benefits, but will also confer the bonus of promoting higher HGH levels in the body. As well, there is a happy cyclical interaction at work here: the more fat that is lost, the higher the HGH levels a person can expect to have; and the higher the HGH levels a person has, the greater the tendency to drop the fat.