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The Take-Home Message

Specialists in the prevention of aging had pointed out to us that aging is an illness; the name of this iliness is — The Syndrome of Human Growth Hormone Deficiency. Growing old is no longer a natural process, it can be prevented and cured. Even if growth hormone releasing activity declines, or somatostatin increases, or receptors becomes less responsive to growth hormone, it can be overcome by the administration of growth hormone releaser.

Human growth hormone therapy is not just for those who are grossly deficient in the hormone. As Dr. Rudman and his colleagues pointed out in their paper, "in middle and late adulthood, all people (emphasis added) experience a series of progressive alterations in body compositions", including a loss of lean body mass, an increase in fat tissues, and atrophy of skeletal muscle, liver, kidney, spleen, skin, and bone. "These structural changes have been considered the unavoidable results of aging", they wrote. "It has recently been proposed, however, that reduced availability of growth hormone in late adulthood may contribute to such changes". In other words, everything we associate with aging - from middle-aged spreading to shrunken, bend-over, frail, doddering senescence - may be due wholly, or in part, to the decline of growth hormone.

There is no need to wait until we are senior citizens to enjoy the benefits of HGH replacement. In fact there is every reason to believe that it is better to start at a much younger age when the levels of our own hormone have already begun to decline. Dr. Eve Van Canter; a human growth hormone researcher at the University of Chicago Medical Center, says, "All these ideas about treating people with growth hormone have been directed toward people sixty-five and older. If we look at the data, people have so-called 'elderly' levels by age forty. Perhaps we should be giving human growth hormone replacement therapy earlier rather than attempting to treat tissues that have seen little or no growth hormone for decades".