Keeping Baby Boomers Young

Health Matters
Minutes Article
May 14, 2004

They are paying up to $1,000 per month for human growth hormone injections or lesser amounts for supplements to maintain a youthful look, and to stay healthy and vibrant.

We, octogenarians, are not much different. We too want those same youthful benefits, except that I find I can achieve those same results by taking nutritional release supplements, instead of taking expensive synthetic hormone injections. Even if I can afford it, I don't like taking synthetic hormones.

The American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine, citing a Business Communication Co. study, said that anti-aging will be a $42 billion dollar business by 2006. 

The academy started in 1993 with 12 doctors, now claims 13,500 members and plans to train another 8,000 professionals in anti-aging this year at conferences and seminars world-wide, according to its founder Dr. Ronald Klatz.

"This is the fastest-growing field in medicine," Dr. Klatz said. "There's a simple reason: It works."

Why Is Growth Hormone So Important?

Human Growth Hormone (HGH) is what keeps you young. It is the main hormone trigger of your entire body. HGH tells your body to replace the cells that die on a daily basis.

As you go through life your body circulates less and less HGH, replacing fewer and fewer cells, and so our body "ages." By increasing Growth Hormone in your system your body naturally responds to the impulse to replace these lost cells, slowing the aging process.

Human Growth Hormone is produced by the Pituitary Gland and is a very complex molecule (191 amino acids). It promotes growth in children and plays an important role in adult metabolism.

The body secretes the hormone, in decreasing amounts, throughout our lifetimes. The released HGH is quickly absorbed by the liver and converted into hundreds of Insulin Like Growth Factors which stay in the blood stream for an extended period of time.

The amount of HGH in the body can be measured by the level of IGF-1 (The most abundant of the Insulin Growth Factors) floating in your blood. 

Growth hormone has a profound effect on all the cells of the body, more than any other hormone because it is THE cell generator. It is the "master hormone" controlling many organs and body functions and is directly responsible for stimulating tissue repair, cell replacement, brain functions, and enzyme function, and a whole lot more.

This essential hormone, so plentiful in our youth, decreases dramatically as we grow older. In our early twenties we generate a new cell for each cell that dies. By the time we reach our fifties we only regenerate one new cell for every two cells that die.

When we are in our seventies, only one cell is replaced for every three or four cells that die. We actually shrink at this time in our lives because we lose one to two million cells per day which are not being replaced.

At age 21, the normal level of circulating HGH is about 10 milligrams per deciliter of blood, while at age 61 it is only 2 milligrams - an 80% decrease!

It's the HGH - human growth hormone that grows the cells, bones, muscles, and organs, and it is the decreasing level of HGH hormone, after age 30, that slowly robs us of our "youth."

Growth Hormone is known to be critical for tissue repair, muscle growth, healing, brain function, physical and mental health, bone strength, energy and metabolism. In short, it is very important to just about every aspect of our life!

Human growth hormone and IGF-1 have been shown to play a significant role in:

• Conversion of body fat to muscle mass 
• Enhanced skin thickness as well as elasticity
• Improved healing time and reduced infection rates after surgery or trauma
• Diminished sun damage-type wrinkling
• Growth of all tissues 
• Lubricates joints
• Energy level 
• Tissue repair 
• Whole body healing 
• Cell replacement 
• Bone strength 
• Brain function 
• Sexual function 
• Organ health and integrity 
• Enzyme production 
• Integrity of hair, nails, skin and vital organs

These incredibly positive effects do not occur over night. After the first several weeks of therapy, the first change that is typically noted is a feeling of enhanced well-being, with most of the compositional changes such as fat loss or muscle and bone gain noted after 3 to 11 months of taking an HGH release supplement.

The above are but a few of the benefits derived from taking a growth hormone stimulator that releases your own natural growth hormone. I know, I've been taking our stimulator product for years, and look at me now! I'll be 81 on May 17, 2004 and no one wants to believe it!

The importance of HGH cannot be over stressed. Basically, anything that goes on in your body is in some way tied to HGH. This is why HGH is often called the "fountain of youth" hormone.

Elevated HGH levels are what make you feel young again. The good news is that your body must always produce HGH or you would not be able to function. The bad news is that as you get past about 20 years old, your body produces less and less HGH each year. By age 60 you will probably have lost 75% to 80% of the HGH that your body produced.

Many recent studies on Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) have been abandoned before completion due to the high risks of breast and other cancers that have been found to be caused by HRT.

More and more women and men have stopped taking HRT and have turned to HGH release products which have not exhibited any of these dangerous side effects and has effectively changed their lives.

Do the baby boomers know what they are doing? You bet they do! And so do us octogenarians!

Healthy eating, taking good supplements, and an exercise program are a great prescription for a healthy, youthful, and long life.

To Your Good Health And Longevity!

Ira Marxe
CEO, Good Health Supplement

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