Human Growth Hormone

Dear Dr. Dean,I would appreciate your opinion on the research article on HGH that I just sent you. I would like your opinion as to how it relates to growth hormone releaser amino acids. Thanks, Mr. B.

Dear Mr. B., The article you sent me is a typical mainstream "takeout piece," designed to convince people who are going against mainstream views that growth hormone has no place in an anti-aging regimen.The authors repeatedly claim that there is no evidence that the use of growth hormone will extend a person’s life. I agree with that statement. One reason is that none of the studies with growth hormone have been tested in animals or humans as a life-extending remedy.However, the authors do admit that growth hormone can "make your skin look better and improve your sex drive." Users of growth hormone report many other beneficial effects, most of which are well documented in the scientific literature. The adverse effects that the authors report are usually the result of excessive dosages. Most anti-aging physicians use low-moderate doses of growth hormone in their practices, and rarely encounter adverse effects. On the rare case that an adverse effect occurs, the "cure" is invariably the temporary discontinuation or reduction in dosage of growth hormone. With regard to the use of growth hormone releaser amino acids, although the amino acids are not equally effective in everyone who uses them, when they are effective, they will result in the stimulation of natural, "physiologic" levels of growth hormone release, not the abnormally high levels that are achieved by those who inject high dosages of pharmaceutical HGH.Please see the article written by Kim Pryor and me (Growth Hormone: Amino Acids as GH Secretagogues - A Review of the Literature) regarding the use and relative efficacy of various combinations of growth-hormone-releasing amino acids. You can find the article on our website.Ward Dean, M.D.