Another Look at Growth Hormone (2005)

- 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 “secretagogues” have any benefit at all. None of them! No matter how well the advertising is written, none of them work. 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 now offer real Jintropin® GH for about $100 a month for 30 IU or a one month supply. 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. Simply go to your favorite search engine and type in “Jintropin” and 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.

You do not need to inject this. Injections are very unnatural and difficult. You can simply add a few drops of 99% DMSO to your freeze dried GH (it always comes freeze dried) and use it sublingually under your tongue. Please read, DMSO Instead of Hypodermic Needles in our library. Pharmacists are not allowed by the FDA to use DMSO solutions unfortunately. You can also probably dissolve this in ethanol (not methanol or propanol) and use it sublingually.

Surprisingly you cannot accurately 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. 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 a little better generally, and have a little more energy. Nothing dramatic, certainly. And you are not going to get any real benefits 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 as a team in concert and not by themselves.

This is not a Magic Hormone just because it is expensive. For example 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. A very few people suffer from 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.