For years, false promises have been made about pills that produce therapeutic increases in growth hormone levels in adults. I countered those claims in a number of articles on this site http://www.metabolism.com/2008/08/23/adults-receive-growth-hormone-treatment/. Recent scientific advances may have finally made this myth into reality. A recent study from the University of Virginia of healthy elderly individuals [...]
In a recent blog at metabolism.com (http://metabolism.com/2007/11/12/estrogencant-live-with-it-cant-live-without-it/) we reviewed information suggesting women who had their ovaries removed or who began early menopause before the age of 50 may preserve brain function as they age by using estrogen replacement. I have just reviewed new research which could help explain why. Researchers gave post-menopausal women one [...]
Over the past few years the use of estrogen to treat post menopausal women has plunged in popularity. This occurred after the release of several major studies showing that instead of helping older women avoid arteriosclerosis (hardening of the arteries) and heart attacks the opposite was true. Recent studies showed that women taking estrogen after [...]
Men over 50 with low male hormone (testosterone) levels have a shorter life expectancy than men with of similar age with higher testosterone levels. Or so says a new medical study in the Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism. Of the almost 800 men over the age of 50 who were studied, those who had the [...]
Let’s face it, nature wants us dead. We were born to die. That may seem a bit harsh but I don’t make the rules. Can the use of human growth hormone and sex steroids help us delay this inevitability? Maybe.
After birth most living things are programmed to develop physically and sexually, to rise to [...]
The Growth Hormone Controversy Gets Hotter
Dr. Thomas Perls says I’m a liar. He didn’t say it to my face but announced it on the CNN T.V. show last night (April 15). He also didn’t address his comment to me personally but rather explained that doctors who prescribe growth hormone to adults to improve their well [...]
In a recent interview with OB.GYN News, Dr. Hossein Gharib, past president of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, and professor at the Mayo Clinic, weighed in with his opinion regarding use of T3 in combination with T4 to treat hypothyroidism (low thyroid function). The doctor’s opinion was that there is no scientific support for [...]
A recently published study confirms what has been suspected for some time, which is that men in the Boston area over the past two decades are showing declining levels of testosterone (male hormone), in their blood. Over twenty years the average testosterone level in these men dropped from 501 to 391. Many experts regard [...]
