1. HEALTHY HEART REQUIRES
21 YEAR OLD LEVELS OF HGH
2. HGH RAISES GOOD CHOLESTEROL, LOWERS BLOOD PRESSURE
3. HEALTHY ADULTS IMPROVE HEART WITH HGH
4. HGH REMOVES BAD LDL
HEALTHY HEART REQUIRES 21 YEAR OLD LEVELS
OF HGH (return to top)
Studies show that too little Human Growth Hormone (HGH) or too
much causes increased frequency of heart disease. For example,
those who have acromegaly - a disease due to the overproduction
of HGH - have far greater risk of heart disease. However, when
there is just the right amount of HGH it does wonders in improving
the health of the heart. The average person starts to lose hgh
after age 21 and does not have enough of it by their mid thirties.
HGH RAISES GOOD CHOLESTEROL, LOWERS BLOOD
PRESSURE (return to top)
Secondly, their cholesterol levels were normal but when the cholesterol
was split between LDL and HDL cholesterol it was far from normal.
LDL which is low-density lipoproteins is a bad kind of cholesterol
which clogs the artery walls and can cause heart attacks and strokes.
HDL meaning high-density protein is the good cholesterol which
actually sucks the bad LDL from the artery walls and carries it
to the liver which harmlessly disposes of it. Also, these had
high levels of triglycerides which are associated with heart disease
and diabetes. They also had increased fibrinogen, a blood protein
that promotes clot formation and higher levels of plasminogen
activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) which prevents the body from dissolving
clots. They also had higher than normal blood pressure and increased
insulin resistance. Strangely, in children who are HGH deficient
this is the opposite with greater sensitivity and tending to hypoglycemia.
When these patients were given HGH it had the profound effect
of clearing the deep fat in the abdomen as well as an overall
trimming of fat and increase in lean body mass. Their HDL was
raised and the LDL which clogs arteries was lowered and after
six months of using HGH their diastolic blood pressure was reduced
by 10 percent although the systolic pressure did not change. It
was at one time thought that HGH would raise blood pressure but
now numerous trials on patients have shown the opposite.
HEALTHY ADULTS IMPROVE HEART WITH HGH
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Also, these benefits are not limited to patients with GH deficiency
due to disease. For example, a study in Germany found that the
more HGH that normal men and women had naturally the more higher
is the level of the health cholesterol or HDL. This same thing
happened in people who took HGH for the purpose of their own well
being in the study conducted by Doctor Edmund Chein and L. Cass
Terry, M.D., who amassed clinical data from more than 800 patients.
HGH REMOVES BAD LDL
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Bengtsson also points out that HGH acts directly on the root cause
of most heart disease and heart attacks. This is because GH enhances
the metabolism in the liver by increasing the number of LDL receptors
in the cells of the liver which removes the bad LDL cholesterol
from the arteries. He expects future studies will actually prove
that HGH can reverse arteriosclerosis. In the past most focused
on the plaques in the arteries but now the focus is shifting on
it being a metabolic disease with the focus on the liver. Several
studies show that HGH may protect against chronic heart failure.
Information
in my own words taken from a book titled, "Grow Young with
HGH" (copyright 1997) by Ronald Klatz, MD
