The Next Health Care Revolution

It is a fact that the fastest growing segment of the population is age 85 years and older.

At current rates of aging, by the year 2025, 65 year-olds will outnumber teenagers by almost 2:1. Fifty percent or more of the baby boomer population are projected to live 100 years and beyond in excellent mental and physical health.

As longer life span becomes a reality, there is a new emphasis on research and application that not only prolongs life, but also increases the quality and productivity of our senior population. Anti-aging medicine will be the most profound social and economic issue of the 21st century, restructuring and redirecting the trillion dollar plus a year economics of health care in radical new ways.

Virtually every medical discipline is vitally interested in anti-aging medicine and its implications. Anti-aging medicine benefits both young and old. This is according to the Journal of Anti-Aging Medicine in their Spring 1998 issue.

During the past twenty years, the New England Journal of Medicine has reported a number of scientific studies concerning the effects of human growth hormone HGH. These studies have contributed a substantial amount of information about the biological role and effects of HGH on humans.

In the past decade, universities and medical centers in the United States and Europe have conducted extensive research into the effects of recombinant human growth hormone (rhGH) on people with growth hormone deficiency. Various groups of people were tested in double blind studies.

Some groups consisted entirely of people in their 70s, while other groups were composed of individuals from 21 to 50 years in age. All of the subjects suffered from growth hormone deficiency as a result of age or as a consequence of treatment of pituitary tumors.

Research revealed remarkable effects of growth hormone supplements on the people involved in the studies. In general all of the subjects experienced these substantial improvements in health: Decreases in body fat and serum cholesterol, increases in physical strength and endurance, higher energy levels, increases in lean body mass, skin thickness and density of lower back vertebrae.

Dr. Daniel Rudman with a team of researchers, documented these effects in his recent studies at the Medical College of Wisconsin and at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Milwaukee. The results were reported in the July 5, 1990 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

Human Growth Hormone (HGH) reverses signs of aging by changing the body's composition. Approximately 80% of the young adult body consists of lean body mass meaning muscle, organs, and bone. The remaining 20% is made up of fatty, adipose tissue.

But after age 30 the muscles begin to atrophy, the skin thins out, and lean body mass is replaced by adipose tissue at an average rate of 5% a decade. By age 70 the balance between fat and lean body mass may be fifty-fifty. For years it was thought that these changes were inevitable and irreversible.

HGH levels naturally drop over time. By age 60 about 30% of men and women produce little or no human growth hormone. Researchers had long suspected that lower levels of growth hormone might play a role in the aging process; however, it was not until the late 1980s, when a synthetic form of HGH was mass produced in the laboratory, that enough was available to test the hypothesis.

Until then, nearly the entire supply of HGH, which was extracted in minuscule amounts from cadavers, was used to treat children suffering from dwarfism.
Dr. Rudman's study tested the effects of HGH in healthy elderly patients. The experiment involved 21 men between the ages of 61 and 81 who had diminished levels of HGH. Twelve of the men gave themselves injections of synthetic growth hormone three times a week for six months.

The others received no treatment. All the subjects followed a diet of about 15% protein, 50% carbohydrates and 35% fat, but they were told not to alter their lifestyles, including the amount they smoked and drank.

After six months, the men taking HGH felt healthier and more energetic. The group's growth hormone levels rose to levels of men under forty. Fatty tissue decreased nearly 15%, lean body mass increased 9%, skin grew 7% thicker and vertebrae became slightly denser.

The researchers say HGH therapy reversed the consequences of two decades of aging. Currently the cost of treatment using synthetic recombinant growth hormone would be $13,800 per year for a person weighing about 155 pounds; thus, long-term growth hormone treatment in elderly adults would require a considerable financial investment.

Because of the high cost of recombinant HGH and the less than optimal administration method, treatment with recombinant human growth hormone for the reversal of the aging process was limited to those who can afford it, and were willing to inject themselves frequently with the hormone. Until these conditions changed the widespread use of HGH in the general older adult population was limited.

Now that has changed. Through recent developments the pain and expense of of injections can be avoided. People of all ages can now enjoy the benefits of the aging reversal process by ingesting an HGH enhancer orally stimulating the pituitary gland to produce, or increase the production of HGH.

Growth hormone secretagogues are now available in an all natural pill form. With this breakthrough, the high cost of the long awaited benefits of the reversal of the aging process is now affordable to all and is no longer limited to movie stars and moguls.

The key to raising blood IGF levels without the high cost and inconvenience of recombinant HGH injections lies in the nutritional and biochemical sciences. Many studies have demonstrated the effects of certain amino acids that, when ingested, promote and stimulate the pituitary gland to produce and release human growth hormone.

The use of amino acids to release natural growth hormone in order to maintain teen age or young adult levels in adults of any age, has been demonstrated in many instances. Growth hormone not only plays a critical role in growth and repair of the body; it also stimulates the thymus gland, resulting in better immune system performance.

Of the approximately 80 amino acids found in nature, only several known varieties, when ingested, will stimulate the pituitary gland to produce natural growth hormone. Studies show that certain amino acids, when combined, stimulate the pituitary to produce growth hormone. Current research indicates that specifically balanced complexes of these amino acids obtain the best results. These supplements are not synthetic, but are botanical extracts in a pure natural form.

One of the major benefits of the amino acid therapy is that it stimulates the pituitary gland naturally, thereby causing the secretion of growth hormone in the normal pulsatile manner throughout the day and night. There are numerous benefits in addition to reversing the effects of aging.

Included among these are increased production of collagen, which improves skin tissues substantially; accelerated post-injury healing for burns and recovery from surgery, blood poisoning or kidney failure; and the alleviation of various ongoing illness, such as asthma and panic attack among others.

Advanced age contributes to a host of diseases. Current evidence demonstrates the crucial role that growth hormone plays in the regeneration process of the body. Growth hormone therapy appears to be one of the substantial breakthroughs in the fight against aging, and age-related diseases.

HOW IT WORKS

Natural growth hormone produced by the pituitary gland is necessary for proper protein synthesis of all lean body mass such as muscle, bone, organs and skin.
It is vital to the maintenance and regeneration of these tissues. Growth hormone works to spare the utilization of proteins and amino acids that would normally be consumed as energy by the body. Growth hormone accomplishes this by mobilizing large quantities of free fatty acids from the body's adipose tissues.

The body uses these fats to supply most of the energy for cellular functions. This process acts as a potent protein sparer, thereby decreasing the necessity to use proteins for glycogen production instead of carbohydrates. Maximizing the use of proteins for cell development and maintenance increases longevity.

Some researchers consider the fat mobilization and utilization effect of growth hormone to be its most important function because protein sparing maximizes protein utilization for growth and cell maintenance. Recent research indicates that most of the major killing diseases are linked directly to high concentrations of fat in the body; therefore, the fat-reducing capability of growth hormone is also a formidable life extending asset.

After a person reaches his or her prime, growth hormone production begins to diminish. Researchers have long suspected that the lack of a proper amount of growth hormone is responsible for the accumulation of adipose fatty tissue and the steady decrease of lean body mass that occurs with aging.

This condition is the major symptom of aging. Recent research demonstrates that this atrophy condition can be reversed if the proper levels of growth hormone are maintained in the body. Additionally, the immune system improves as a result of an increase of white blood cell production, thereby protecting the body from illnesses that age the body.

As the pituitary produces or increases the production of HGH, individuals experience an increase in their energy level, a deeper sleep pattern, improved mental attitude, and a greater ability to cope with stress. Some people may experience temporary soreness in joints and bone due to rebuilding of previously degenerated tissue as a result of age or injury, but this soreness will diminish.

In all recorded cases, soreness will completely subside as tissue regeneration progresses. The second month produces a firming up of body muscle, some loss of fatty adipose tissue, improved skin and facial appearance. Cholesterol levels decrease. Mental concentration and learning ability improve.

The third month of use will produce a definite improvement in lean body mass, muscle shape and tone, continued loss of fatty adipose tissue, further improvement in facial muscles and appearance.

Skin elasticity and thickness improves. Your muscle structure will begin to reshape and assume the definition and proportion that you enjoyed in your prime years. Beyond the third month of use overall improvement continues. The body and facial muscle structure become more youthful as fatty adipose tissue decreases.

Growth hormone achieves these effects without any physical exercise whatsoever, though a physical exercise program does produce additional benefits. The effects of growth hormone supplements are very definite but subtle.

The overall aging process occurs over years. Conversely, the age-reversal process associated with growth hormone also takes time. The reconstruction of body cells involves the cell division process. Newer more complete and accurately modeled cells replace existing or damaged cells. This process takes time.

The growth hormone supplement user can expect a continuous, gradual, definite improvement. It is recommended that the growth hormone enhancer be used properly for at least a six-month period in order to objectively monitor improvements. Research suggests that proper growth hormone enhancing should be maintained on a continuous basis after age 35.

Growth hormone therapy has been available for years to movie stars, and wealthy individuals. It was in a synthetic form available to those who could afford the injection process. Thanks to recent scientific developments HGH enhancement is readily available in an oral natural form and affordable by all.

Essentially all hormone replacement therapies are anti-aging therapies. A hormone therapy in women would be estrogen and testosterone in men. These hormones decline with age. They really don't have to. They decline because we are living longer and our body wears out due to pollution, improper diet and other factors.

We are changing genetically. We know that growth hormone is a major hormone for all of us. As information was published on its effects, weight lifters and athletes became aware of the effects. They have been using these hormones to produce lean muscle mass as well as to give them strength and energy.

What is really interesting is that because of recent research on longevity, HGH is widely considered the Fountain of Youth. Researchers feel that HGH is really the keystone hormone in the endocrine chain, the main link that all hormones are tied to. With the endocrine system it is necessary to have balance.

You can't have a predominance of one hormone over the other. In your midbrain the pituitary, hypothalmus and other glands are all simultaneously releasing releaser hormones and instructing the pituitary to release the actual hormone. The pituitary is 60% by weight Somatotropin C which produces growth hormone. The body in its infinite wisdom has learned feedback mechanisms so there is a substance Somastatin which shuts down growth hormone.

When the body produces too much somastatin it overrides and shuts down the growth hormone, somatropin. Researchers have found that there are a number of amino acids that have regulating effect on this growth hormone releasing process.
Since the 1970s athletes have taken arginine and other amino acid products which one can take at night to release growth hormone while the patient sleeps because growth hormone is a pulsating hormone which means it reaches its peak when you are at your deep sleep.

There are a number of natural substances that can stimulate the release of growth hormones. The problem with many is that you have to take massive doses to produce the benefits desired. This is inconvenient, very expensive and could lead to side effects.

Age-reversal encompasses various aspects pertaining to the body such as the rebuilding of lean muscle tissue, growth of thicker skin, and a decrease in body fat. What comes with that is greater endurance, better sexual function, and better mental and emotional stability. This is important to older people.

This is accomplished by raising HGH levels, it's delivery, and having the digestive track assimilate all nutrients. This has to be incredibly important to someone who is concerned with aging, fractures, or osteoporosis. The fact is, as your body produces HGH, your muscle mass increases, and this affects your bone metabolism as well. All your tendons, ligaments, and joints are going to become stronger and more resilient