HGH Talk

Arginine or L-arginine is quite a well known amino acid that has been found to raise growth hormone levels, and is often included in an amino stack comprising glutamine, arginine, lysine, B-vitamins, and others for bodybuilding. Arginine is important to the body when it is under stress, which is when the demand for it by the body soars. Regular physical workouts will require a higher level of arginine, as will emotional/mental stress. It is a non essential amino acid because the body can synthesize arginine at any rate, but this depends on age and general health condition too.

Among the roles of arginine in the body are:

• Stimulate HGH release by the pituitary
• Assist wound healing
• Increase muscle mass
• Increase sperm production
• Maintain the immune system
• Help the body to synthesize creatine, a substance used for muscle building
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The pineal gland is one of the most important organs in the body, playing a large role together with the pituitary gland, in regulating the aging processes of the body. It grows rapidly from birth, and is at its largest in children, but shrinks after adulthood is reached. By the age of 60, it would have shrunk considerably.

This alone, suggests a strong link between the pineal gland and aging. But this is not pure conjecture alone; the pineal gland produces melatonin, a hormone vital for proper, healthy sleep. It plays a major role in seasonal based cycles, and therefore, controls sexual and physical development, metabolism, health, sleep, and hibernation in animals.

Because of its small pea size, it was not determined (or identified as a separate fully functioning endocrine gland) until the 1960s. Prior to that, the pineal was just considered to be a vestige-like organ with no real purpose, like the appendix. But far from being a “useless” organ, it is now established to be one of the most important organs of the human body - although it has remained as cryptic as ever. Read the rest of this entry »

Is there a death hormone that actually causes you to die? This curious question haunts some anti aging researchers, who believe that this hormone does in fact exist, and surprise - it is in fact, released by the pituitary gland!

Just what is this “Death Hormone” anyway? A certain Dr Donner Denckla has proposed that DECO, or DECreasing Oxygen consumption hormone is responsible for causing neuron (brain cell) death. And the chief culprit seems to be the pituitary gland, which although responsible for releasing growth hormone (HGH), is also seemingly the organ responsible for releasing DECO. Read the rest of this entry »

It is true that HGH is a hormone that occurs naturally in the body. But it is also a powerful hormone with far reaching effects throughout the entire body. One of the concerns of users who want to use HGH therapy is the potential of such a therapy in raising the risk of cancer. It is a long running debate regarding HGH use.

Some of the known negative side effects of HGH usage include acromegaly, carpal tunnel syndrome and fluid retention, diabetes, arthritis, and high blood pressure. But of particular concern is whether HGH is responsible for causing cancer, and a few experiments suggest that increased IGF-1 levels (which are a direct result of HGH conversion) may contribute to a higher cancer risk. Read the rest of this entry »

Telomeres may hold the key to exciting future anti aging advances. Telomeres are strands or sequences of DNA attached to the ends of chromosomes. They have a very important role in cellular health. Every time your cells divide (and cells reproduce by dividing), the telomeres that are attached on the ends of the chromosomes get shorter (and shorter). In other words, telomeres may hold the key to cell lifespan.

The whole purpose of telomeres is to provide a buffer for the cells during replication, because cells cannot divide the chromosome part all the way to the end, and so use up the telomere instead as fodder to stand in for the chromosome. As the telomere gets shorter, and shorter, so the cell’s ability to divide also gets less and less - finally leading to the death of the cell (apoptosis). Read the rest of this entry »