Fountain
of Youth? HGH
It is being touted as an anti-aging
hormone, effective in preventing and reversing many of the
debilitating changes in emotional and physical well-being we
associate with aging and chronic disease.
The Growth
Hormone Approach
- This hormone
plays a vital part in all aspects of growth (especially in
the young) and repair (which calls for enhanced protein synthesis),
as well as having a beneficial influence on immune function.
- It is
produced in the anterior pituitary gland (at the base of the
brain) and the efficiency of its production is known to decline
with age, so that by 60 years old almost a third of us have
no growth hormone production at all.
- Not surprisingly,
this is seen to be a key factor in the speed with which we
age.
Among the stimulants
which encourage production of growth hormone are peak level exercise
(not just any exercise, only that which pushes you to the limit,
such as aerobic), trauma (peak level exercise has a minor traumatizing
effect on muscle, and this might be the trigger for growth hormone),
fasting, sleep (but more so in young people) as well as some amino
acids mentioned above. In
1990 a remarkable research study, carried out by Dr Daniel Rudman,
of the
Medical College of Wisconsin, was reported in the New England Journal of
Medicine. A group of 21 elderly men (age 61 to 81) were tested over a six
month period, 12 of them receiving injections of synthetic growth hormone three
times weekly, the other nine receiving no treatment (for comparison of results
of those treated and those untreated). The diets of all 21 were kept much the
same (protein 15 per cent of intake, carbohydrate 50 per cent and fats 35 per
cent) with no change at all recommended in smoking and other habits. Those who
received the hormone showed marked benefits at the end of the study:
- Increase
in growth hormone levels in the blood to that of 40 year olds.
- Decrease
of fatty tissue by 15 per cent
- Increase
in lean body mass (mainly muscle) by 9 per cent
- Increase
in density of bone (vertebrae) by 1.6 per cent
- Increase
in skin thickness by 7 per cent.
In many respects
it was found that the men who received growth hormone appeared
physiologically to be 10 to 20 years younger than when they started
just six months previously. Subjectively the men felt trimmer,
more energetic and healthier, noting firmer skin, less fat and
more muscle. Not surprisingly none of the improvements or subjective
feelings were seen or reported in the
nine who received no treatment.
Click here to learn more about Hormone Replacement Therapy
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