| Growth Hormone
and Body Fat
It is important to recognize how our muscle-fat ratio tends
to change with age. Some 80% of a young adults weight is lean body mass-muscles,
organs and bones. Only 20% is fat (adipose tissue). After the age of thirty muscles
atrophy partly due to your genetic make up and partly due to lifestyle, such as
poor diet and lack of exercise. Every decade thereafter an average of 5% of lean
body mass is replaced by fatty tissue, so that by the time most of us reach 70
yrs, we have gone from an 80-20 lean-fat ratio to a ratio that is closer to 50-50.
Growth Hormone decreases 14% every decade as we age so that a 70 year old
secretes only 20% of the Hgh (human growth hormone) secreted by a 20 year old. Dr
Danial Rudman published a land-mark study in the New England Journal of Medicine
in 1990 when he showed that aging adults can reverse the physical signs of aging
by as much as 20 years from injections of growth hormones. The most significant
results were the drastic change in the ratio of muscle to fat. A study at the
same institution after Dr. Rudmans death was published in 1996 and revealed the
following, when 202 patients were given a low dose of growth hormone injection
for several months: - 88% reported improvement in Muscle Strength
- 81% reported improvement in Muscle Size
- 71% reported improvement in Body
Fat
- 81% reported improvement in Exercise Tolerance
- 83% reported improvement
in Exercise Endurance
- 71% reported improvement in Skin Texture
- 68%
reported improvement in Skin Thickness
- 71% reported improvement in Skin
Elasticity
- 51% reported improvement in Wrinkle Disappearance
- 38% reported
improvement in New Hair Growth
- 55% reported improvement in Healing of Old
Injuries
- 53% reported improvement in Back Flexibility
- 73% reported
improvement to Common Illness
- 62% reported improvement in Duration of Penile
Erection
- 57% reported improvement in Frequency of Nighttime Urination
- 57% reported improvement in Hot Flashes
- 84% reported improvement in Energy
Level
- 62% reported improvement in Memory Growth Hormone
is safe but expensive. I like to replace growth hormone for one month four times
a year and give amino acids secretagogues the other 8 months. The combination
of certain amino-acids like (lysine, arginine, glutamine and ornithine) will spur
the pituitary gland to release growth hormone especially when combined with the
zone diet and a good exercise program. This protocol lets you take advantage of
the benefits of growth hormone while reducing the cost and risk of any side effects.
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