Growth Hormone and Secretropin®

Allen Lawrence, M.A., M.D., Ph.
Advanced Wellness Medical
310-879-9266

Growth Hormone and Secretropin®

I am asked all the time what is the value of Growth Hormone and why should I care about it? This is a simple question to answer. While the explanation of what Growth Hormone may be is quite complex, the value of it, once its production is simulated, is rather easy to recognize and accept.

Growth hormone (GH) has quite a few benefits for the tissues in the human body. It is most generally described as an anabolic (building up) peptide or hormone. While it is often thought of for its use by people of short stature to help them grow taller, this is only one use and not even really the main reason to increase your internal production of your own growth hormone.

GH does stimulate growth in height during childhood but for an adult, it has more important benefits that we should be taking advantage of.

Use of Growth Hormone results in the following:

1. Calcium retention: GH acts to strengthen and increase vital mineralization within your bones, such as Calcium, preventing and protecting you against osteoporosis, a problem that cause lots of pain and suffering as men and women age. This helps prevent fractures of vital bones such as the hips, legs, back, arms and legs. Fractures can be the cause of death in many otherwise healthy men and women in their 70’s-80’s.
2. GH increases both muscle mass and strength, and one’s ability to function, preventing weakness and loss of balance, which can often lead to one having to use a cane, crutches or wheel-chair because of normal muscular degeneration secondary to GH deficiency.
3. GH promotes lipolysis, the breakdown of body fats so it can be used as food and manage body fat deposition. Without lipolysis, we store the fat we eat as body fat and it is not available to use to feed our muscles and other body tissues, hence causing obesity. GH helps to prevent obesity and lowers blood fat levels.
4. GH increases protein synthesis. As we get older, if protein synthesis fails, we lose our full ability to repair, maintain and make new proteins to heal and repair organs, tissues, bones and hence growth. In short, we age faster and the deterioration of our body leads to progressive, often more rapid, and damaging aging.
5. GH stimulates the growth of all internal organs including the brain. We now know our brain and nervous system are much more plastic, that is more able to repair themselves and growing new neurons and nervous tissues than we believed in the past. This is not solely because of GH but is aided by stimulation of GH.
6. GH plays a role in fuel homeostasis, meaning it helps economize our use of fuel (body fat, blood sugar and a host of other important chemicals we produce) which invigorate and help our body function normally. GH helps your body have energy when you need it. Commonly, some forms of fatigue are secondary to low GH and imperfect fuel management.
7. GH reduces liver uptake of glucose this reduces risk of fatty liver and assists in better blood sugar management and reduces the risk of getting diabetes.
8. Promotes gluconeogenesis in the liver. GH reduces the production of blood sugar by your liver once again reduces your blood sugar level and risk of diabetes.
9. GH contributes to the maintenance and function of pancreatic islets. Pancreatic islets make insulin. A major reason for diabetes is the inability of your pancreas to manufacture insulin, GH reduces this risk.
10. GH stimulates the immune system. This is possibly the most important reason to stimulate appropriate GH production, so we are not deficient in GH. With a competent and effective immune system, we are healthier, we suffer less from health problems, we are less likely to suffer from infection. Finally, this may be the most important point to take away from this article, because your immune, repair and maintenance systems are working optimally. GH acts to heal us more rapidly and effectively and this slow the entire aging process. We age slower and less dramatically. We stay younger, we are more effective and more efficient!

GH slows aging, increases healing, maintains proper maintenance and keeps us healthy. If we look at Advanced Wellness Medical’s goals of Prevention—>Healing—>Wellness—>Longevity and Quality of Life, GH fits right in as one or the most important steps in ensuring the heathiest and most positive outcome of your life.

While using Growth Hormone is extremely expensive and has many negative side effects. We use another peptide called Secretropin® which simply stimulates production of GH. It is safe, effective and affordable. Secretropin® is a 100% natural growth hormone secretagogue (that is it stimulates your body to produce your own GH). Secretropin® is well tested and has very few if any negative side effects. It simply stimulates GH production and when your body has produced sufficient amount of GH, it automatically stops working so you cannot over dose yourself under any circumstance.

If you would like information on your GH blood level or Secretropin® or getting the benefits of GH, call us at 310-879-9266 or 844-222-577 and set up a free 20-minute consultation and we will answer your questions.