Effect of a high-fat meal on the growth hormone response to exercise in children.

What Was Tested

Researchers studied Exogenous HGH, sermorelin & older GHRPs (why they're passed over) in this controlled clinical trial publication.

High-fat food ingestion before exercise blunts the GH response in adults, but it is unknown whether this occurs in children.

The researchers therefore performed standard exercise tests, following a high-fat meal or placebo, in 12 children, age 11-15 (6 M, 6 F).

Who Took Part

The abstract describes 12 children taking part.

The age groups tagged for this paper are teenagers, both men and women.

How the Study Was Run

The researchers set it up as a placebo-controlled study.

A placebo (an inactive look-alike) gave the Exogenous HGH, sermorelin & older GHRPs (why they're passed over) group a baseline to be compared against.

What Was Measured

The researchers therefore performed standard exercise tests, following a high-fat meal or placebo, in 12 children, age 11-15 (6 M, 6 F).

Topics PubMed links to this paper include Blood Glucose, Diet, Atherogenic, Dietary Fats, Epinephrine, Exercise Test, Glucagon and Growth Hormone.

What This Means in Plain Language

The paper is a placebo-controlled study of Exogenous HGH, sermorelin & older GHRPs (why they're passed over) in 12 children.

With fewer than 40 people, it is a small study, so it is better read as an early signal for further research than as a settled answer.

The publication is from 2006 (Journal of pediatric endocrinology & metabolism : JPEM), a journal based in Germany.

More context: the Exogenous HGH, sermorelin & older GHRPs (why they're passed over) compound page, all human trials.