Do You Need Human Growth Hormone? (by Phillip C Saint-Erne, MD)
...Together with testosterone and insulin, human growth hormone is the supreme anabolic agent in man. There is no doubt adequate growth hormone is critical for normal maturation and growth, but how does diminishing growth hormone effect vitality as we age?
...Recently, some 4,000 physicians, in an organization called A4M, collectively published articles and books to the effect that reduced production of "human growth hormone" (HGH) is one of the primary causes of aging and decreased functioning of our major organs.
...Furthermore, they believe, returning the production levels of this hormone back to those levels associated with our youth can bring about a dramatic increase in health and vitality.
...The New England Journal of Medicine, and numerous other journals, have stated that HGH replacement therapy may reverse some of the effects of human aging by restoring muscle growth, decreasing body fat, restoring hair loss and color and increasing stamina and endurance. Additionally, HGH is thought to improve sexual function, cholesterol profile, memory, normalize blood pressure, improve immune functions, foster a quicker resolution of injuries, and reverse the shrinkage of major organs associated with aging.
...HGH is a prescription medicine and should be taken in conjunction with the consultation of a physician practicing endocrine medicine in association with hormonal changes in aging that may detrimentally affect health and happiness.
...Typically, one of my patients would have a blood screening to determine his current HGH level. If needed, I start a patient typically, at a dosage of 7-14 IU/week as 1-2 IU/day. After thirty days another blood screening will help to determine if this dosage is sufficient.
GROWTH HORMONE BACKGROUND
...From conception, hormones, which are produced by the endocrine glands, serve as messengers from your brain, telling your internal organs how to function. A decrease in the production of hormones begins in middle age and continues to diminish in a linear fashion until old age.
...But now, perhaps the "ultimate in preventative medicine technology" has been realized:
...Insufficiency of hormone has been discovered to be a major element in the process of aging.
...The NIA (National Institute of Aging) has asked several major US universities to study this phenomenon. Research from around the world during the past five years has led the NIA to realize the tremendous benefits of hormone replacement therapy.
...The emphasis of medicine has always been to diagnose and treat a disease process. Unfortunately, many of the disease processes, including cardiovascular disease, stroke, cancer and Alzheimer's disease, have been blamed on the "natural" process of aging. Traditional medicine has never treated aging as a disease process. Now we can look at aging as a significant factor in disease formation and attempt to prevent the symptoms of aging by treating aging as a disease in itself. We now have begun to change our thinking that it is automatic to deteriorate with age, at various stages. Fortunately, we now know that much of the deterioration of aging is preventable, or at least, the processes can be slowed.
...Perhaps this new "gestalt" of treating age more or less as a disease first started in 1991 based on studies by an endocrinologist at the Medical College of Wisconsin, Dr. Daniel Rudman. Dr. Rudman studied hormone replacement in older men, (61-81) the results of which were published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Dr. Rudman stated to the effect that it appeared that HGH could reverse 10 to 20 years of the aging process in older men as fat diminished, muscle tissue and strength increased.
...Thus Dr. Rudman's study revealed solid research possibly supporting the fact that hormonal decline itself might be a primary, major cause of aging. It may follow then, that providing the aging body with additional human growth hormone can reverse or certainly slow many of the symptoms of the aging process.
SCIENCE ADDS MORE
...Other scientists have realized the importance of supplementation of other hormones. Scientists at the Gerontology Research Center of the National Institute of Health in Baltimore, Maryland, are working with other researchers to examine the role that reduced sex hormones play in age related disturbances, including musculoskeletal function, body composition and metabolic function.
...Combining hormone replacement therapy to return growth hormone and sex hormone levels to levels typical for younger people has shown additive or synergistic effects. Physical and psychological function is improved, including improvement in cardiovascular function, improved cholesterol levels, increased lean body mass, and improved muscle strength and fitness.
...Remember that hormones are tiny, chemical messengers continuously secreted into the bloodstream by endocrine glands to regulate activities of vital organs. Hormones stimulate a multitude of life-giving processes throughout the body that maintain health, harmony, growth, healing and repair.
...Probably the most well known hormone is insulin, which is secreted by the pancreas. Before the development of the production and administration of insulin, many people died as a result of diabetes or had severe debilitating illnesses. Once scientists were able to synthesize insulin, the severe changes associated with diabetes were reversed, or at least slowed, for a much longer period of time.
...Genetic engineering has now enabled endocrinologists to synthesize many of the natural hormones found in our bodies. This significant advancement in the ability to synthesize our hormones has lead to endocrinology research into the correction of the deficiency of hormones that contributes to our aging decline.
...It is the operation of the endocrine system that allows the central nervous systems to communicate with every cell in the body. Hormone deficiencies affect every cell in the body and result in degenerative changes and the aging process, as well as symptoms of aging. However, if you bring hormone levels back to a level at age 25, you actually reverse many of the unfavorable effects that begin to appear as we age.
...Together with testosterone and insulin, human growth hormone is the supreme anabolic agent in man. There is no doubt adequate growth hormone is critical for normal maturation and growth, but how does diminishing growth hormone effect vitality as we age?
...Recently, some 4,000 physicians, in an organization called A4M, collectively published articles and books to the effect that reduced production of "human growth hormone" (HGH) is one of the primary causes of aging and decreased functioning of our major organs.
...Furthermore, they believe, returning the production levels of this hormone back to those levels associated with our youth can bring about a dramatic increase in health and vitality.
...The New England Journal of Medicine, and numerous other journals, have stated that HGH replacement therapy may reverse some of the effects of human aging by restoring muscle growth, decreasing body fat, restoring hair loss and color and increasing stamina and endurance. Additionally, HGH is thought to improve sexual function, cholesterol profile, memory, normalize blood pressure, improve immune functions, foster a quicker resolution of injuries, and reverse the shrinkage of major organs associated with aging.
...HGH is a prescription medicine and should be taken in conjunction with the consultation of a physician practicing endocrine medicine in association with hormonal changes in aging that may detrimentally affect health and happiness.
...Typically, one of my patients would have a blood screening to determine his current HGH level. If needed, I start a patient typically, at a dosage of 7-14 IU/week as 1-2 IU/day. After thirty days another blood screening will help to determine if this dosage is sufficient.
GROWTH HORMONE BACKGROUND
...From conception, hormones, which are produced by the endocrine glands, serve as messengers from your brain, telling your internal organs how to function. A decrease in the production of hormones begins in middle age and continues to diminish in a linear fashion until old age.
...But now, perhaps the "ultimate in preventative medicine technology" has been realized:
...Insufficiency of hormone has been discovered to be a major element in the process of aging.
...The NIA (National Institute of Aging) has asked several major US universities to study this phenomenon. Research from around the world during the past five years has led the NIA to realize the tremendous benefits of hormone replacement therapy.
...The emphasis of medicine has always been to diagnose and treat a disease process. Unfortunately, many of the disease processes, including cardiovascular disease, stroke, cancer and Alzheimer's disease, have been blamed on the "natural" process of aging. Traditional medicine has never treated aging as a disease process. Now we can look at aging as a significant factor in disease formation and attempt to prevent the symptoms of aging by treating aging as a disease in itself. We now have begun to change our thinking that it is automatic to deteriorate with age, at various stages. Fortunately, we now know that much of the deterioration of aging is preventable, or at least, the processes can be slowed.
...Perhaps this new "gestalt" of treating age more or less as a disease first started in 1991 based on studies by an endocrinologist at the Medical College of Wisconsin, Dr. Daniel Rudman. Dr. Rudman studied hormone replacement in older men, (61-81) the results of which were published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Dr. Rudman stated to the effect that it appeared that HGH could reverse 10 to 20 years of the aging process in older men as fat diminished, muscle tissue and strength increased.
...Thus Dr. Rudman's study revealed solid research possibly supporting the fact that hormonal decline itself might be a primary, major cause of aging. It may follow then, that providing the aging body with additional human growth hormone can reverse or certainly slow many of the symptoms of the aging process.
SCIENCE ADDS MORE
...Other scientists have realized the importance of supplementation of other hormones. Scientists at the Gerontology Research Center of the National Institute of Health in Baltimore, Maryland, are working with other researchers to examine the role that reduced sex hormones play in age related disturbances, including musculoskeletal function, body composition and metabolic function.
...Combining hormone replacement therapy to return growth hormone and sex hormone levels to levels typical for younger people has shown additive or synergistic effects. Physical and psychological function is improved, including improvement in cardiovascular function, improved cholesterol levels, increased lean body mass, and improved muscle strength and fitness.
...Remember that hormones are tiny, chemical messengers continuously secreted into the bloodstream by endocrine glands to regulate activities of vital organs. Hormones stimulate a multitude of life-giving processes throughout the body that maintain health, harmony, growth, healing and repair.
...Probably the most well known hormone is insulin, which is secreted by the pancreas. Before the development of the production and administration of insulin, many people died as a result of diabetes or had severe debilitating illnesses. Once scientists were able to synthesize insulin, the severe changes associated with diabetes were reversed, or at least slowed, for a much longer period of time.
...Genetic engineering has now enabled endocrinologists to synthesize many of the natural hormones found in our bodies. This significant advancement in the ability to synthesize our hormones has lead to endocrinology research into the correction of the deficiency of hormones that contributes to our aging decline.
...It is the operation of the endocrine system that allows the central nervous systems to communicate with every cell in the body. Hormone deficiencies affect every cell in the body and result in degenerative changes and the aging process, as well as symptoms of aging. However, if you bring hormone levels back to a level at age 25, you actually reverse many of the unfavorable effects that begin to appear as we age.
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