Is Human Growth Hormone (HGH) safe? The short answer is that when used in physiologic doses and levels are carefully monitored it is extremely safe. Patients that use HGH experience a reduction in body fat, increases in lean muscle, have improvements in their cholesterol, sleep better, recover from workouts faster and even improvement in memory and cognition. There are major medical studies that show patients who supplement with HGH have an improvement in “overall quality of life.” In this post I will discuss the risks, benefits and what the medical literature says regarding the use of HGH. First
Many physicians that prescribe testosterone use an “estrogen blocker” (arimidex or chrysin) to reduce the peripheral conversion of testosterone into the hormone estrogen. They do this because they claim high levels of estrogen in men can adversely affect the prostate gland. What they fail to realize is that estrogen in men plays a critical role in preventing bone loss, preventing Alzheimer’s disease and dementia and also reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease. There is not one human study that shows estrogen in men is harmful. To the contrary I can produce 50 studies showing estrogens protective effects on
Many women AND doctors do not understand the important role that testosterone plays in women. Most women don’t realize that they even produce testosterone. 99% of doctors ignore testosterone levels in women and never check them. Let me explain why, if you are a women, that you must request that your doctor checks your testosterone levels. Testosterone is also a female sex hormone produced in the ovaries and adrenal glands. When women are in their late teens and twenties their testosterone levels are at their highest. This is when they look the best, feel the best and have the
Time and time again I here patients tell me that they had their testosterone levels (or any hormone level) checked and their doctor told them they were “normal”. Despite the fact that the patient is symptomatic (decreased energy, sex drive and libido) they leave without treatment thinking that they are “just getting old” because that is what their doctors tell them. The point of this blog is to let you know that “normal” is not optimal and that the majority of doctors miss this point. In addition, because the patients labs are “normal” they do not get treated.
