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Human Growth Hormone

  • 11-08-2005 4:12pm
    #1
    rsta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,261 ✭✭✭


    Hello everyone

    Has anyone heard of this tonic called HGH, is it safe to take?

    Apparently its great for giving you energy and making you feel and look younger. I think maybe if something is that good wouldnt we all be taking it anyway? It sounds a bit dodgy though.

    Has anyone taken it before??

    Thanks :)


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  • #2
    DrIndy
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    This sounds extremely dodgy, especially as a tonic.

    Human growth hormone is only good for you if you are deficient and dangerous in greater quantities.


  • #3
    simu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,730 ✭✭✭✭simu


    More suited to the fitness forum...


  • #4
    tribulus
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    it might be prescibed by a doctor for medical reasons but is used (illegally) as a supplement by some people for it's anabolic effects.

    I'm not familiar with its side effects but seen as it is a hormone i'd be very wary of it especially as a tonic :rolleyes:

    It's also something the WADA and IOC are quite worried about as up until last years Olympics (maybe still now) they hadn't developed a very accurate testing procedure for it.


  • #5
    Easygainer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 546 ✭✭✭Easygainer


    My friend, you have much to learn.

    HGH is only effective when injected, is extremely pricey and inconvenient to take (twice daily subcutaneous injections). It is effective, but for the price (E400 per kit lasting maybe 3 weeks, 5 if you stretch it out), surgery would work out cheaper.

    Any sublingual sprays, drinks, colostrum etc are all a waste of money and ineffective.

    http://anabolicminds.com/forum/showthread.php?t=13471


  • #6
    Flex
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,154 ✭✭✭Flex


    HGH is used as a steroid for its muscle building properties. Ronnie Coleman
    (supposidly) takes it and as a result has a rather big waistline (ie"growth hormone gut"), which i personally think looks ridiculous.


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  • #7
    logic1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,859 ✭✭✭logic1


    Flex wrote:
    HGH is used as a steroid for its muscle building properties. Ronnie Coleman
    (supposidly) takes it and as a result has a rather big waistline (ie"growth hormone gut"), which i personally think looks ridiculous.

    It's not a steroid and not taken as a steroid. It's exactly what it says, a growth hormone. Distended gut has often been attributed to HGH usage but never scientifically proven.

    .logic.


  • #8
    Easygainer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 546 ✭✭✭Easygainer


    Flex wrote:
    HGH is used as a steroid for its muscle building properties. Ronnie Coleman
    (supposidly) takes it and as a result has a rather big waistline (ie"growth hormone gut"), which i personally think looks ridiculous.

    As said it's not a steroid - it's a synthetic 191 chain amino acid, mimicking natural HGH (there used to be a synthetic form but cos it was taken from the brain there were obvious health risks...)

    Coleman's gut is from a combo of slin/growth/igf/+10000cal per day diet (no that's not a typo)


  • #9
    Flex
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,154 ✭✭✭Flex


    REally? I thought that because it mimics a naturally occuring hormone in our bodies, the way steroids mimic testosterone (i think),and that some BB'ers use it for its anabolic and strenght increasing properties, that meant it was like a steroid. I stand corrected, thanks.


  • #10
    Easygainer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 546 ✭✭✭Easygainer


    Flex wrote:
    REally? I thought that because it mimics a naturally occuring hormone in our bodies, the way steroids mimic testosterone (i think),and that some BB'ers use it for its anabolic and strenght increasing properties, that meant it was like a steroid. I stand corrected, thanks.


    Steroids (anabolic androgenic steroids) are sex hormones produced from cholesterol etc in the reproductive organs. GH is from the pituitary in the brain. On its own, it actually won't build much muscle, its benefits come from stacking it with other substances.


  • #11
    jazzbandit
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    Easygainer talks rather condescendigly to the chap who asked a simple question about HGH. He says its cheaper to have surgery. What surgery is he talking about?? Surgery usually results a catabolic reponse, and is this surgery more effective than HGH?

    Jazz bandit


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  • #12
    Easygainer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 546 ✭✭✭Easygainer


    jazzbandit wrote:
    Easygainer talks rather condescendigly to the chap who asked a simple question about HGH. He says its cheaper to have surgery. What surgery is he talking about?? Surgery usually results a catabolic reponse, and is this surgery more effective than HGH?

    Jazz bandit


    I was saying that to look younger, the once off of surgery is probably cheaper... many Hollywood starts though take GH to look younger; I won't name names but a certain actor from pulp fiction springs to mind as someone who has reversed aging in the last 10 years...


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