All Growth Hormone Supplements Are Frauds

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All Growth Hormone Supplements are Frauds –2005

- Roger Mason

No matter how many times this column warns people about non-prescription, over the counter growth hormone supplements it just doesn’t seem to register with some people.

Every week a new e-mail comes in asking, “But what about this one Roger?”

NONE OF THEM WORK!!! You have to buy real prescription recombinant human growth hormone (rhGH) and inject it or use it in DMSO. ALL THE ADS YOU SEE ARE FRAUDS!!! All of them. None of these over the counter products have any value whatsoever no matter how well written they are. Homeopathic GH is the biggest joke.

Fortunately the Chinese have finally been able to make inexpensive growth hormone. You can now get Jintropin for about $125 a month or Fitropin (Kexing) for about $100 a month for 10 mg/30 IU. You basically need 1 IU a day which is 0.33 mg. Fitropin is a192 amino acid strand rather than the true 191 amino acid linkage however. You do not have to inject this and can use these in DMSO on thin skin (like your inner wrist or neck). You may be able to use GH in ethanol solution under your tongue. The ideal way is to dissolve it in DMSO and use it sublingually daily under your tongue. This will doubly guarantee absorption. If you have ever tried air injector pens you probably came up with skin infections.

The most promising growth hormone secretagogue in the world was the hexapeptide (six amino acids) hexarelin, but it was never sold. After more than a decade of human use, including children and old people, the researchers finally admitted it was a failure. Hexarelin did raise GH, but also dangerous raised prolactin levels.

Can you afford $1,200 a year for growth hormone? Have you balanced your DHEA, testosterone, pregnenolone, melatonin, progesterone (yes, men need progesterone, too), T3 and T4? Ladies, have you balanced your estradiol, estrone and estriol? You must test and balance ALL your hormones as they work together in concert as a team. Using expensive growth hormone or any other hormone by itself is very ineffective. Just because GH is expensive does not mean it is a Magic Hormone with dramatic benefits. You will probably get significant benefits if you are over the age of 40. The published international clinical studies on GH (somatatropin) are overwhelming. The problem has always been 1) EXPENSE, and 2) injections. Doctors and pharmacists cannot legally give you a DMSO solution of any drug or hormone. As usual, the government is there to “help” you since you and the doctor are too stupid to know what you want and need bureaucratic assistance. You are also not going to get much benefit if you don’t EAT WELL! Diet is everything, and you have to eat whole healthy foods. A whole grain based diet is the healthiest way to eat. Please read my book Zen Macrobiotics for Americans. Before you spend $1,200 or more (Jintropin will run you at least $1,500) there are about 15 proven natural supplements you should be taking as well.

How do you test your levels? Currently there are no saliva tests available and you have to see a doctor to get a morning, fasting blood draw. This one time test is not a very reliable indicator of your daily GH status though. Some people have surprisingly high levels as they age. Younger people can oversecrete this pituitary hormone and get horrible conditions like agromely, where your hands, feet and face are too large. Testing GH is very difficult outside of a clinical setting unfortunately. Also, GH levels literally go up ten times about an hour after you go to sleep.

Getting a single blood test does have some worth but you don’t need to do this. Getting four bloods tests in a 24 hour period at a clinic is expensive and inconvenient. IGF-1 levels can be tested with saliva, but IGF-1 levels do NOT accurately indicate your growth hormone level. Anyone who says they do doesn’t know what they’re talking about. Unlike all the other hormones you basically have to go by RESULTS here. If you use 1 IU daily and increase lean muscle mass, lower body fat (buy one of those $40 electronic Tanita body fat scales), lower your cholesterol, improve your LDL/HDL cholesterol ratio, strengthen your immunity, shorten your healing time, have more energy, enjoy more feelings of well being, get better exercise performance, stronger bones, better blood flow and circulation, and other such improvements you’ll know GH is working for you.

You do not have to get extorted by a medical doctor to get GH. I haven’t seen Jintropin or Fitropin in chain drug stores or even compounding pharmacies anyway. You can import this or any other medication legally for your own personal use on the Internet inexpensively. Just do a search until you find someone who sounds reliable with a good price. You can do the same with thyroid hormones, testosterone, and estriol.

You can see by this chart that GH peaks as our teenage years end and falls very severely for the rest of our lives. By the time we are 40 three quarters of our GH is gone.

If you are eating well, have balanced your other hormones, are taking all the proven supplements, get regular exercise and have at least $1,200 a year to spend on this then go for it.