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It is known that if \\(F_0=F(M^n,0)\\) is a smooth star-shaped hypersurface of strictly positive mean curvature then IMCF has a smooth solution for all times which approaches a homothetically expanding spherical solution as \\(t\\to \\infty\\), see [\\textit{C. Gerhardt}, J. Differ. Geom. 32, No. 1, 299--314 (1990; Zbl 0708.53045); \\textit{J. I. E. Urbas}, Math. Z. 205, No. 3, 355--372 (1990; Zbl 0691.35048)]. On the other hand, if the initial hypersurface \\(F_0\\) is not star-shaped, then the singularities may develop; moreover it is proved by \\textit{K.~Smoczyk} that in the case \\(n=2\\) such singularities can occur if the mean curvature \\(H\\) tends to zero somewhere during the evolution [Asian J. Math. 4, No. 2, 331--335 (2000; Zbl 0989.53040)].  The main result of the paper is the following lower bound for the mean curvature of star-shaped solutions to IMCF.  Theorem. Let \\(F: M^n\\times [0,T]\\to \\mathbb{R}^{n+1}\\) be a smooth star-shaped solution to IMCF. Suppose that the following estimates hold at \\(t=0\\):  \\[  0<R_1\\leq \\langle F,\\nu\\rangle \\leq R_2.  \\]  Then there is a constant \\(0<C_n<\\infty\\) depending only on \\(n\\) such that the estimates  \\[  \\frac{1}{H\\langle F,\\nu\\rangle}\\leq C_n\\max\\left(\\frac{1}{\\sqrt{t}},1\\right)\\frac{1}{R_1}| F_0|^{1/n}  \\]  and  \\[  H\\geq \\frac{1}{C_n}\\min\\left(\\sqrt{t},1\\right) e^{-t/n}\\frac{R_1}{R_2}| F_0|^{-1/n}  \\]  hold everywhere on \\(M^n\\times [0,T]\\).  Remark that if \\(F\\) is star-shaped and satisfies \\(0<R_1\\leq \\langle F,\\nu\\rangle \\leq R_2\\) at \\(t=0\\), then during the evolution under IMCF it remains star-shaped and satisfies \\(e^{t/n}R_1\\leq \\langle F,\\nu\\rangle \\leq R_2e^{t/n}\\) [cf Zbl 0708.53045].  Thus in the star-shaped setting \\textsl{the mean curvature has to grow at least of order \\((t-t_0)^{1/2}\\) when starting from a hypersurface of nonnegative mean curvature at time \\(t_0\\).}  Besides the authors prove an original estimate for the full second fundamental form of hypersurfaces under IMCF:  Theorem. Let \\(F: M^n\\times [0,T)\\to \\mathbb{R}^{n+1}\\) be a smooth solution of IMCF satisfying uniform bounds \\( 0<H_1\\leq H \\rangle \\leq H_2\\). Then the full second fundamental form satisfies an estimate  \\[  | A| \\leq c_n \\frac{H_2^2}{H_1}\\frac{1}{t}  \\]  everywhere on \\(M^n\\times [0,T)\\).  This extends results of K.~Smoczyk to all dimensions and leads to the following blowup criterion for IMCF.  Theorem. Let \\(F: M^n\\times [0,T)\\to \\mathbb{R}^{n+1}\\) be a smooth solution to IMCF with \\(H>0\\), \\(0<T<\\infty\\). If the mean curvature \\(H\\) remains bounded from below by a constant \\(H_1>0\\) for all \\(t\\in (0,T)\\), the solution can be extended beyond \\(T\\). In particular, if \\([0,T)\\), \\(T<\\infty\\), is the maximal time interval of existence for a smooth solution to IMCF, then the speed \\(1/H\\) is unbounded for \\(t\\to T\\).  Finally, the results obtained are applied to weak (level set) solutions to IMCF [cf. J. Differ. Geom. 59, No. 3, 353--437 (2001; Zbl 1055.53052)]. It is shown that one can construct smooth solutions to IMCF for star-shaped \\(C^1\\)-smooth initial hypersurfaces with positive weak mean curvature. Moreover, every weak solution to IMCF is regular after the first instant \\(t_0\\) where a level set \\(F_{t_0}\\) is star-shaped; this implies that weak solutions to IMCF are regular outside compact 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