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Growing Young (and
Perhaps Sick) with Human Growth Hormone (HGH)
By Dan Hall
Published December 2005
Propagandaville - a quaint little town with white
picket fences, nuclear families, neighborhood
schools, and friendly salespeople who'll be as
nice and polite as possible so long as you're
shelling out money to buy their wares. Yes, in
Propagandaville, money is king, and snake-oil
peddlers abound, pushing their products onto unsuspecting
people all in the name of health.
News of Human Growth Hormone
or HGH has flooded the television and print advertising
market in the past decade. Claims that HGH will
retard the aging process, boost your sex drive,
build muscle mass, help trim fat, cure depression,
make you more intelligent, and cause you to feel
better and healthier are ever-present in the media.
But are these claims accurate? Is HGH therapy
truly the new elixir of youth, or are the claims
unsubstantiated, inaccurate, and just plain wrong?
HGH research has been occuring
since as early as the 1960s, perhaps even earlier.
HGH isolated from human pituitary glands is often
used therapeutically to treat people with growth
hormone deficiency, which could easily lead to
reduced muscle mass and bone density. Of course,
a true deficiency in growth hormone is not normal;
it can be caused by a variety of factors, including
hypopituitarism, tumors of the brain, and so
forth. Traditionally, people who need HGH treatment
visit endocrinologists and do not purchase their
HGH from infomercials.
Truthfully, HGH no longer
exists, as scientists have stopped using true
Human Growth Hormone and now market synthetic
growth hormone. People claiming to sell HGH are
not truly selling Human Growth Hormone but a synthetic
blend that could very well be anything! Chances
are, what is being sold is nothing more than amino
acids or proteins wrapped in a neat little package.
Unless you have a true GH deficiency and are willing
to be diagnosed by an endocrinologist, you're
most likely wasting your money on mass-marketed
HGH.
What's frightening about
all of this is that HGH does have its side-effects--ones
that are rarely if ever mentioned on television.
Diabetes, a gross enlargement of the nose and
other facial features, a thickening of the skin
and connective tissue, an increase in muscle mass
but not strength, nerve damage, joint pain, certain
cancers, edema, and other symptoms have been reported
after prolonged use of commercial HGH. This is
not something to be taken lightly, for it can
very well have a negative effect on your health.
Homeopathic HGH (which is
sold in small dosages) may actually live up to
some of the hype, but only because the dosages
are small enough to affect a change but not significant
problems. Muscle mass may increase, skin may appear
healthier, and energy may rise--in part due to
the pituitary gland producing more natural GH
as a side-effect--but these are all temporary
effects. The true causes of aging have little
to do with a lack of HGH and more to do with a
lack of nutrition and/or an overabundance of toxins
lodged within the joints and tissues. HGH can
only add to these problems, not solve them.
Longevity cannot be found
in a pill. A life-transformation is required to
slow, stop, and perhaps reverse the aging process.
Changes in diet, thought process, activity, and
other areas of life are all necessary to remain
young and live a long, healthy life. Pills, powders,
shakes, oils, and other products will never replace
true healthy living. And until we, as a society,
can embrace the natural laws that will keep us
healthy, we will continue to look for the next
great wonder drug, thereby fueling the informercial
conglomerates well into the future.
Dan Hall is
a teacher and author living in Georgia. He is
the author of the book Neohygiene. Visit him on
the Web at http://www.neohygiene.com.
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