1. HEALTHY HEART REQUIRES
21 YEAR OLD LEVELS OF HGH
2. STUDY SHOWS HGH REGROWS HEART TO BETTER
FUNCTION
3. HGH RESCUES PATIENT FROM HEART TRANSPLANT
4. STUDIES SHOW HGH PROTECTS HEART AFTER HEART ATTACK
5. TWICE THE NUMBER HEART DEATHS IN HGH DEFICIENT
ADULTS
6. HGH RAISES GOOD CHOLESTEROL, LOWERS BLOOD PRESSURE
ETC.
7. HEALTHY ADULTS IMPROVE HEART WITH HGH
8. HGH REVERSES ARTERIOSCLEROSIS - 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.
STUDY SHOWS HGH REGROWS HEART TO BETTER
FUNCTION (return to top)
In a 1996 study published in the prestigious New England Journal
of Medicine, five men and two women who had moderate to severe
heart failure were given 4 IU of HGH every other day for three
months along with the standard treatments for their condition.
The HGH increased the thickness of the left ventricular wall,
enhanced the ability of the heart to contract and pump out blood,
reduced the oxygen required by the heart, improved the capacity
to exercise and the patients overall quality of life.
HGH RESCUES PATIENT FROM HEART TRANSPLANT
(return to top)
A GH deficient patient at St. Thomas' Hospital in London had congestive
heart failure that failed to respond to conventional medical treatment.
His situation degenerated to the point where he became a candidate
for a heart transplant. Dr. Peter Sonksen, a pioneer in growth
hormone research decided to give his patient HGH because there
was no donor available. The result was astounding. The treatment
increased heart ability to contract and the peripheral circulation
improved so much that the patient no longer required a transplant.
Many studies show that GH deficient patients treated with HGH
increase the thickness of the left ventricular mass, raise the
cardiac output, strengthen the stroke volume, and improve the
overall pumping of the heart which one would think would cause
an increase in blood pressure. However, the diastolic blood pressure
goes down which means the body somehow compensates for increased
output by decreasing peripheral resistance in the arteries and
capillaries so that blood pressure remains low.
STUDIES SHOW HGH PROTECTS HEART AFTER
HEART ATTACK (return to top)
Studies on animals show the HGH protects the cells of the heart
and brain from dying after a heart attack. When cells die in the
brain and heart after a heart attack the cells can never be replaced
which means the damage is irreversible with loss possibly being
in areas such as movement, memory, clear thinking and so on. Researchers
produced heart attacks in rats and then immediately gave them
one of three treatments, a placebo, HGH, or IGF-1 which is produced
through HGH. When they autopsied the groups which had received
HGH or IGF-1 there was far less damage than the placebo group.
A similar study on animals in Auckland, New Zealand revealed that
IGF-1 when given after the injury to the brain actually rescued
brain cells.
TWICE THE NUMBER HEART DEATHS IN HGH
DEFICIENT ADULTS (return
to top)
In a study done by Bengtsson of the university of Goteborg at
Sahlgrenska Hospital on 333 patients that were matched with the
same age and sex with severe HGH deficiency it was found that
there was twice the number of deaths from heart disease. What
was found was that these had a higher fat to lean ratio and in
particular this was concentrated in the abdomen area which is
the area known to raise the risk of heart attacks.
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
(return to top)
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 REVERSES ARTERIOSCLEROSIS - REMOVES
BAD LDL (return to top)
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
