Hormone Replacement Therapy

From conception, hormones which are produced by the endocrine glands, serve as messengers from your brain, telling your internal organs how to function. A decrease in the production of hormones begins in middle age and continues to diminish in a linear fashionuntil old age.

The ultimate in preventative medicine technology has been realized:

Fortunately, the NIA (National Institute on Aging) has instructed several major U.S. universities to study this phenomenon. Research from around the world during the last five years has led the NIA to realize the tremendous benefits of hormone replacement therapy.

The emphasis of allopathic medicine has always been to diagnose and treat a disease process. Unfortunately, many of the disease processes, including cardiovascular disease, stroke, cancer and Alzheimer’s disease, have been blamed on the aging process. However, conventional medicine has never treated aging as a disease process nor has it tried to prevent this disease process. Now we can look at aging as a significant factor in disease formation and attempt to prevent the symptoms of aging by treating aging as a disease itself. We now have begun to change our thinking that it is normal to deteriorate with age and therefore acceptable. Fortunately, we now know that much of the deterioration of aging is preventable.

This new gestalt of treating age as a disease process first started in 1990 by a famous endocrinologist at the Medical College of Wisconsin named Dr. Daniel Rudman. Dr. Rudman studied hormone replacement in older men, the results of which were published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine. Dr. Rudman stated in an interview, "We reversed 10 to 20 years of aging process in older men. Fat diminished, muscle tissue and strength increased." There was also increased lean body mass, decreased body fat, increased vertebral bone density, increased skin thickness, increased exercise tolerance and exercise endurance, improved healing and immunity, and tremendous increase in overall well-being. This was all accomplished by the simple administration of human growth hormone.

Thus Dr. Rudman’s study revealed solid research supporting the fact that hormonal decline itself is a major cause of our aging. Providing the body with additional human growth hormone can reverse symptoms of the aging process.

Other scientists have realized the importance of supplementation of other hormones. Scientists at the Gerontology Research Center of the National Institute of Health in Baltimore, Maryland, are working with other researchers to examine the role that reduced plasma sex hormones play in function. Their affect have been shown to be synergistic and additive to other hormones. Sex hormones improve physical and psychological function, including improvement in cardiovascular function, improved cholesterol levels, increased lean body mass, and improved muscle strength and fitness. Let’s take a look at the various hormones and their roles.

Hormones are tiny, chemical messengers continuously secreted into the bloodstream by endocrine glands to regulate activities of vital organs. Hormones stimulate a multitude of life-giving processes throughout the body which maintain health, harmony, growth, healing and repair. Probably the best known hormone is insulin, which is secreted by the pancreas. Before the development of the production and administration of insulin, many people died as a result of diabetes or had severe debilitating illness. Once scientists were able to synthesize insulin, the severe changes associated with diabetes were reversed.

Genetic engineering has now enabled endocrinologists to synthesize all the natural hormones found in our bodies. This significant advancement in the ability to synthesize our hormones has lead to endocrinology research into the correction of the deficiency of hormones that contributes to our aging. It is the operation of the endocrine system that allows the central nervous system to communicate with every cell in the body. Hormone deficiencies affect every cell in the body and result in degenerative changes and the aging process as well as symptoms of aging. However, bringing hormone levels back to a level we had when we were younger reverses many of the unfavorable effects that begin to appear as we age.

Growth Hormone

Growth hormone (high) is secreted by the pituitary gland and is taken into the liver and converted into a protein called somatomedin-C or IGF-1 (insulin-like growth factor-one). It is IGF-1 that is mainly responsible for the growth hormone functions in the body. Growth Hormone contributes to ongoing tissue repair, healing, cell rejuvenation, bone strength, brain function, enzyme production, and the integrity of hair, nails, and skin. The signs of growth hormone deficiency are the same as the signs of aging. Body composition shifts with an increase in body fat and body weight and a decrease in muscle mass and energy. There is a decrease in bone mineralization, vitality ebbs, and there is increased cardiovascular disease and mortality. There are also psycho-social deficits and impaired physical performance, poor sleep, and decreased social interaction.

Research indicates that daily supplementation of growth hormone may reverse symptoms of the aging process and restore a more youthful physiology and conditioning. All hGH studies have documented improved body composition and function. There is a consistent improvement in muscle/fat ratio. There is a 10% to 20% decrease in fat and a 10% increase in muscle. There is also an increased lipolysis or breakdown of fat with the concomitant decrease in cholesterol and triglycerides. There is also an increase in exercise capacity, bone density, muscle mass and strength. There is increase in cardiac output, skin rejuvenation with an increase in collagen and elastin, and a significant improvement in immunity which results in growth hormone’s anticancer and longevity effect.

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