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Caring for an aging parent? He took a deep breath, pinched a layer of belly fat, and plunged the needle in. Just ask any major-league Hollywood player. Earlier this year, following a game of tennis at a swank Beverly Hills country club, a prominent movie producer sat nursing a sore knee. A former studio executive recalls a recent dinner out with one of his colleagues. And I feel great in the morning. Both sources can rattle off a list of Hollywood H.
Although one particularly ripped twentysomething heartthrob is said to be on the needle, H. The surest giveaway? But I noticed that when I was taking it—no gray hairs. To acknowledge H. In a sense, H. Uzzi Reiss, a Beverly Hills physician on the forefront of the H.
In the late s, doctors began injecting severely undersize children with growth hormone extracted from human cadavers. A protein produced by the pituitary gland, it stimulates the growth of pretty much everything, including cells, bones, and muscles. Major H. Supplies were limited and therefore restricted to the highest-need patients. Sometimes the treatment sparked modest growth spurts; sometimes the child experienced nothing except aching joints and crushing disappointment.
The great leap forward occurred in , when the Food and Drug Administration approved a biosynthetic form of H. The modern iteration of H. The average pre-teen patient grew two inches, maybe a bit more; the gain, although modest by the standards of most people, was gold to the tiny nine-year-old everyone taunted in gym class. Side effects—the main ones were joint pain and swelling—tended to be mild and treatable. Long-term risks were somewhat more troubling. Endocrinologists have been monitoring H.
The diabetes is thought to be caused by H. But all pharmaceuticals pose some degree of hazard. The medical establishment, having done the risk-reward analysis, came down in favor of H. The F. By now pretty much everyone agreed the therapy was the gift that kept on giving; H. They evinced a glow of skin and spirit, and presented as better versions of themselves; they were happier.
There, in the Talmud of medical scholarship, doubters read the results of a study in which a dozen men between the ages of 61 and 81 received large doses of H. The men ended up losing 14 percent of their body fat while gaining 8. This was exciting news to Big Pharma, whose favorite sons Pfizer, Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk horned in on the action, sparking a marketing orgy that turned H. One minute, H. In the meantime, the Internet was flooded with a billion opportunists peddling half-baked H.
And then came Suzanne Somers. In , the onetime sitcom star published the magnum opus of her H. The book, which celebrated H. And it debuted at No. And I know my stuff.
I live it, walk it, talk it. But Sylvester Stallone and several other action stars are known to have taken it. Actors who use H. And acting is, after all, the art of transformation. It was just the character. Blige later denied using H. But the biggest headline appeared around the same time: At Sydney Airport, in Australia—a country that tightly restricts H.
In 10 years, it will be over-the-counter. And when I hit my 50s, although I was still very sexually active, I was less so than I was in my 20s.
It isn't clear if human growth hormone provides other benefits to healthy adults. HGH treatment might cause a number of side effects for healthy adults, including:. Clinical studies of HGH treatment in healthy older adults have been relatively small and short in duration, so there's little to no information about the long-term effects of HGH treatment. HGH treatment is approved in the United States only for treatment of growth hormone deficiency — and related problems associated with HIV infection.
HGH is only effective if administered as an injection. There's no pill form of human growth hormone available. Some dietary supplements that claim to boost levels of HGH come in pill form, but research doesn't show a benefit. Using HGH for a condition that isn't approved, such as building muscle or as an anti-aging treatment in older adults, is illegal. If you have specific concerns about aging, ask your doctor about proven ways to improve your health. Remember, healthy lifestyle choices — such as eating a healthy diet and including physical activity in your daily routine — can help you feel your best as you get older.
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