Another Look at Growth Hormone (2007) -Roger Mason We have discussed growth hormone (GH) in other columns. It must be emphasized over and over again that NONE OF THE OTC GH SUPPLEMENTS SOLD HAVE ANY VALUE. This is a prescription drug, and none of the OTC “secretagogues” have any benefit at all. None of them! No matter how well the advertising is written, none of them work. Please do not write in asking, “what about this one?” Amino acids such as arginine, ornithine, etc. will just not raise your GH levels. You can take 1 g of L-glutamine in the AM and 1 g in the PM to temporarily spike your levels, but they won't stay elevated.
All of the pharmaceutical analogs such as hexarelin and MK-677 have been failures.
Fortunately, in 2005 the Chinese offered real Jintropin® GH for about $120 a month for 30 IU, which is a one month supply. In 2007 Hygertropin was added. The average person over the age of 50 needs about 1 IU per day or 30 IU per month. (1 mg = 3 IU, so you would need 10 mg a month). Be sure to note that your GH is designated in IU (International Units) and not mg (milligrams).
You do not need to see a doctor to get GH. Go to your favorite search engine and type in “Jintropin” or “Hygertropin” and try to find an inexpensive, reliable source. Please read, You Don't Need a Prescription in our library. You have a legal right to import pharmaceutical drugs for your personal use without a prescription under U.S. Code Section 21. The government has illegally tried to stop people from doing this. You can
still bring them in personally with or without a prescription if you declare them.
You do not need to inject this. Injections are very unnatural and difficult. You can simply add a little water or vodka and use this sublingually (under your tongue). It must be refrigerated especially after diluting it. After dilution it is only good for about 7 days
even in the refrigerator. NEVER SHAKE IT or you will break the molecule. You can inject this subcutaneously every day if you like things such as hypodermic needles.
It is difficult to test your GH levels because of the great variability during the day. GH temporarily literally goes up about 1,000% (ten times) after you go to sleep. If you use blood, you need four draws in one day every six hours to get an accurate picture of your levels. There are no saliva tests but should be in the next two years. You CANNOT use IGF-1 levels contrary to the popular wisdom. Anyone who tells you IGF-1 accurately parallels GH has no idea what they are talking about. It is easy to test IFG-1 with saliva, but it just doesn't help you here. You have to go by RESULTS on this. After you use GH for 2 or 3 months you should have lower cholesterol and triglycerides, lower body fat and more lean muscle mass, feel better generally, and have more energy. Nothing dramatic though, certainly. You are not going to get any real benefits from GH unless you are balancing your DHEA, testosterone, pregnenolone, melatonin, progesterone (yes, men, too), T3 and T4 (and women their three estrogens). All hormones work together harmoniously as a team in concert and not by themselves.
This is not a Magic Hormone just because it is expensive. You'll get much more dramatic results from using inexpensive thyroid hormones if your thyroid metabolism is slow.
Several of our readers over the age of 50 have tried real, prescription GH and not gotten any visible benefits even after two months and stopped using it.
There are overwhelming published studies on using GH in the elderly, and the benefits can be substantial in some people Also, there are no side effects whatsoever to using GH or any bioidentical hormone properly. The media loves to tell scare stories about the “side effects” of using growth hormone, but none of this is true. Young people (like weightlifters) who use GH will, of course, suffer side effects. A very few people have genetically excessive GH production, a condition called “agromely”. Our growth hormone levels fall from the time we leave our teen years and keep falling until they almost disappear by the time we're 70. If you are over the age of 50 you can pretty much guess you are low in GH and can benefit from using it. Again, this is only going to work if you have balanced your other basic hormones- which is very inexpensive to do. If you are over 50 and can afford $1,200 a year, you should try it. Go by real world RESULTS rather than diagnostics here. Again, you'll get far more dramatic effects from inexpensive DHEA, pregnenolone, testosterone, progesterone, T3 and T4. Click here to return to the article library.
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