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Of all anti-aging clinic scams, the sale and administration of human growth hormone has been called “perhaps the most blatant and organized form of quackery today.” It all started, promisingly, with a small experiment published in our December 2019 issue. New England Journal of Medicine Twelve men over the age of 60 who received growth hormone injections gained 8 pounds of lean body mass over a six-month period compared to nine men who did not receive the injections. Newspapers around the world reported the results. Anti-aging clinics sprung up, offering injections for upwards of $4,700 a month, and the popular press poured out books extolling the hormone's anti-aging properties. After all, this is muscle mass that can be lost as you age over the course of 10 to 20 years. But that assumes what they gained was muscle.
The original study did not measure strength or performance, but later larger, longer, better (i.e., placebo-controlled) studies were conducted and found no benefit. A meta-analysis of growth hormone studies on exercise ability showed that exercise ability may further deteriorate. Wait, how can you gain lean body mass and not get stronger? By retaining pounds of water. Lean body mass is mostly due to fluid retention. In fact, overt edema (soft tissue swelling) is one of the most common side effects of growth hormone, affecting approximately half of recipients. Other side effects include joint pain, carpal tunnel syndrome, male breast development, increased blood sugar, and new-onset diabetes.
All of this has no evidence of anti-aging effects. Rather, growth hormone is actually accelerate Aging process. For example, patients with acromegaly, a disorder of growth hormone excess, suffer disproportionately from not only muscle weakness but also diabetes, high blood pressure, arterial dysfunction, and bone loss.
In the 1980s, doctors and parents conspired to make short children taller by injecting them with growth hormones. What happened to them? A study of thousands of children who were injected with growth hormones for one reason or another decades ago found a 33 percent increased risk of death, mainly from brain hemorrhages and tumors. Strokes are caused by malignant tumors caused by elevated blood pressure and elevated levels of the cancer-promoting growth hormone IGF-1.
It is estimated that 20,000 to 30,000 people in the United States use growth hormones in a futile attempt to stave off aging, a practice that one leading endocrinology journal called “medical fraud of unprecedented proportions.” Considering the side effects, it may be a good idea that all human growth hormone (also known as somatotropin) test samples purchased from online pharmacies were found to contain a fraction of the indicated amounts (perhaps due to degradation due to improper storage). In other studies, some of the confiscated samples were fake and contained nothing at all.
There is also dissemination in the form of pills and nasal or sublingual sprays that have no biological significance. This is because hormones are proteins that are too large to effectively pass through membranes, and are simply destroyed in the stomach when swallowed. Considering the risk of developing cancer and the possibility of: shortened One prominent clinician has said that growth hormones may be “true anti-aging drugs” in that they can prevent premature aging.
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