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 [...]
The South Bronx is an odd place to meet up with an expatriot British scientist. But Dr. Shelly Brown was a peculiar sort who almost seemed to fit in at Lincoln Hospital, 149th Street, Bronx, New York. I met Dr. Brown in 1990 when I became the Chief of Endocrinology at the large city hospital [...]
The articles supportive of non-mainstream treatments found on metabolism.com sometime require comments critical of more traditional practices. This isn’t meant to imply that every alternative form of medical care is worthwhile. Bad medicine is possible with either approach. Whether traditional or alternative, it is important for patients to be aware of healthcare providers who [...]
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