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As most of you know, I'm diabetic because of thyroid and adrenal issues. I take desiccated thyroid and adrenal supplements to try to normalize my endocrine system and do a good enough job with diet and exercise to control blood glucose without medication, but as you might imagine, I sorely miss desserts, potatoes, grains, and sometimes even alcohol, and if I have a week moment on a birthday and have a few bites of desserts, it takes a couple of hours of exercise to get my blood sugar back down, so I try to avoid it most of the time. But maybe not for much longer; I've been experimenting with human growth hormone (HGH), and getting positive results.
When HGH was first discovered, a lot of people paid a LOT of money to get monthly injections. And for about seven months, they had HUGE benefits, like rapid weight loss, vision improvement, regeneration of damaged glands, endless energy, renewed sexual vitality, etc. But after seven months, a lot of cancers were seen developing, among other things, and given how much HGH was administered and how little time it takes to metabolize, it's really no wonder. HGH causes elevated levels of Insulin-like Growth Factor-1 (IGF-1), which in turn stimulates healing, growth, etc. When your pituitary releases HGH every night while you sleep, healing occurs, and if you completely burn the glycogen stores out of muscle tissue, HGH is released to help grow more tissue.
The first bit of bad news is that anything that helps with growth in small amounts can pretty-well be counted upon to cause cancer in large amounts. HGH metabolizes in seconds to minutes, and the injection therapy was massive doses taken monthly, weekly, or several times a week. In contrast, the pituitary causes small amounts to be released over a period of hours. So after about seven months, the onslaught of massive doses was observed causing cancer, atrophy of the pituitary gland, and other life-threatening maladies. So this veritable “fountain of youth” was shown to also provide a fast track to the grave if misused.
It literally is a “fountain of youth” sort of substance. One of the markers of age and health is the length a structure on the tail of the DNA in red blood cells called “telomeres,” which is basically an amino acid chain that repeats a sequence. They are about 15,000 units long when we are born, and oxidative stress reduces them over time; the shorter they get, the more we see the signs of aging, until they get down to about 5,000 units, at which time we die. Adequate HGH levels, sufficient vitamin D3, and other things help to protect the Leukocyte Telomere Length (LTL) and when we are young, HGH levels are sufficient to even increase LTL when something injures it.
However, there’s the next bit of bad news. As we get older, our pituitary gland continues to make adequate HGH, even into our 80’s and beyond, but the enzyme that causes its release, called somatotropin, starts decreasing rapidly in our late 20’s when we pass out of our prime reproductive age. If memory serves, a 40 year old man releases half of what a 20 year old man does, and a 50 year old man releases half of what a 40-year old man does. Sounds scary, doesn’t it? Not to mention cruel, since our pituitary is holding all that life-preserving HGH and we’re just not getting the benefit of it.
Now for the good news: there are nutrients in the human body, like L-arginine (which we’ve discussed in other threads), that cause the release of small amounts of HGH under the right conditions. And there are combinations of these nutrients that can restore the release of your own HGH at levels similar to those you had much earlier in life, without the life-threatening side effects of injection therapy.
However, as soon as that news got out, every fly-by-night lab in the country and around the world started pumping out “HGH releasers.” I’ve seen reviews and/or lab studies of over 1,000 of these preparations and only three can be said to work to any appreciable degree. Legally, if their compound just contains a large dose of L-arginine and causes a marginal, non-therapeutic, but detectable increase in serum HGH levels, the product can be legally sold as an HGH releaser. Incidentally, this is where the USFDA is really screwing us by wanting to classify something as a drug if it is ingestible and anything is said to the effect that it causes some change in the human body. If it weren’t for that, the people who make the good compounds could say that they work well enough to release a therapeutic amount of HGH, could compare their products’ performance to the fakes that legally qualify but don’t do anything, etc. But such is life.
Now for the really, REALLY cool news: I subscribe to a lot of medical newsletters and advisory services, and one of them announced that they had tested and confirmed some of these products through use by their patients well enough to recommend them. I tried the one they most highly recommended, and I have preliminary results to share.
It usually takes four months or longer to effect any sort of significant change in the human body. I am in the middle of my eighth week of using this product five times a week and I have already been able to reduce my thyroid and adrenal supplementation twice, my middle-aged far-sightedness has improved to the point that sometimes I find that I see better without my reading glasses, especially between twelve inches from my eyes and arm’s length, the outer one-third of my eyebrows are starting to grow back in (thinning of the outer third of the eyebrows is one of the things that happen when your thyroid gland starts under-performing), I haven’t had a joint ache since about a week after I started, in spite of increased exercise, my energy level is up, my blood glucose is lower because my insulin-resistance is improved, my skin is better, I have new hair growth where it was thinning on top of my head, and best of all, I’ve lost 12 pounds, down from 240 to 228.
I’m a beefy guy, so at five foot, eleven inches, so about 195-200 is probably my ideal weight, and at this rate, I’ll probably be there in a few months without having to any dieting or harsh exercise; currently I do Dr. Joe Mercola’s recommended, “Peak 8” regimen, a.k.a., “sprint 8” in some circles, three times a week, ride an exercise bike casually or do a light, 30-minute workout on a Bowflex three other times a week, and have a day off from exercise once a week.
So what is the product? I’m not quite ready to let the cat out of the bag. The manufacturer recommends doing a three-month course before doing a formal evaluation of results, so I need to finish another month, and if it does what I’m expecting, I’m going to try to arrange a reseller agreement so I can offer it to members here at a steep discount. At full retail it’s worth every penny, and frankly, I’ve paid more for a monthly vitamin regimen than this product costs at full retail, but I’ve seen places selling it cheaper and there’s a possibility that I may be able to do it cheaper than that if we can get larger orders together and sort of “co-op” it.
If this happens, I won’t be able to ship outside the US because I don’t have an exporter’s license and really don’t have the time to try to deal with something like that, nor the potential volume to be able to negotiate a decent shipping discount with someone like FedEx or DHL and keep the shipping costs from making the total price cost-prohibitive for most people. However, for those of you in the US, I can and will handle domestic shipping, and the proceeds will go to help defray the costs of this forum, the medical newsletters I read to get reliable information for you folks, etc., all reinvested in your experience here. So stay tuned!
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