Anti-Aging Hormones: What You Should Know – III

Specific supplements

There are also specific anti-aging supplements and hormones that are used for each gender. For instance to beat the effects of menopause, there is estrogen and Menopausal Replacement Therapy. These were originally thought to decrease the risk of heart disease but in fact, they could increase the risk of heart disease, stroke and blood clots. Doctors recommend that you use these in the smallest doses for the shortest period of time. As with most anti-aging supplements, the dosage is crucial. It needs to be monitored very carefully because if there’s even a slight skew in how much you take in, your body will feel the difference immediately – and protest! Men are sometimes recommended a testosterone supplementation and although there is little evidence of its negative effects at the moment, there are signs that it could be linked to prostate cancer.

The thing to remember about anti-aging supplements is that they might improve the quality of your life, but they don’t ensure that you live longer. There hasn’t been enough research done on the long-term effects of injecting hormones, especially when these are unnatural and don’t match the molecular structure of what your body might naturally have produced.

Anti-Aging Hormones: What You Should Know – II

DHEA

Another amongst the anti-aging supplements on your supermarket shelf is DHEA (Dehyrdoepiandrosterone), which calls itself the ‘miracle drug’. Well, the bad news is that may not really be a miracle drug. It has been found successful in some specific cases and conditions (for instance in patients with depression). But if you’re looking at it as an anti-aging supplement, you should know that its use in age-related problems such as Alzheimer’s and skin aging (causing wrinkles) is unclear.

Melatonin

Some doctors prescribe the hormone melatonin which is well-known for bringing on sleep. It’s being cited as an anti-aging hormone but like the others it could have side effects too! These include nightmares, headaches, daytime drowsiness and depression. Another thing is that if you’re looking for anti-aging supplements, it’s unlikely that you will take only melatonin; you might be considering using it with other treatments but there hasn’t been too much research into how melatonin interacts with other therapies so you might want to check those details with your doctor.

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Anti-Aging Hormones: What You Should Know – I

Thinking about what kind of anti-aging treatment to go in for is becoming pretty similar to shopping at a well-stocked super-market. As you wander down the aisle wondering how to make sense of so many types of anti-aging supplements, each of them promising to inject your body with some miracle anti-aging hormone, it’s important to get some basics straight.

Not exactly ‘natural’

Anti-aging supplements and hormones which are prescribed are usually not an exact replica of what the body would normally produce. There may be a close similarity, but remember that your body can still tell the difference between the Real McCoy and a fake.

Secondly, many anti-aging hormones occur in combination with other hormones when they are secreted naturally. So if you’re taking a drug that puts more of one kind of hormone in your body without a corresponding amount of the others that naturally occur with it, your body is likely to be screaming from an imbalanced dose.

Human Growth Hormone

Amongst the anti-aging supplements, the Human Growth Hormone is most popular. People call it the “fountain of youth” because it’s what’s secreted by your pituitary gland as you’re growing up. It makes your bones stronger, skin thicker, body more flexible (converting fat to muscle helping you maintain a healthy weight) – it’s all about growth and vitality. But if you’re looking to beat aging, this is way more complicated than just exercise, or using Botox or lifestyle lift to erase wrinkles. The wrong quantity of this hormone could cause cancer or tumors, say some doctors.  It affects your sugar metabolism as well, leading to some talk about connections with using this as anti-aging supplement and diabetes. An excess amount might cause pituitary tumor which has symptoms that include frequent headaches and impaired vision. Without careful monitoring, doctors say you could also have problems with excessive bone growth, vocal cord thickening, fluid retention, arthritis and carpal tunnel syndrome.

Human Growth Hormone – Digging Deeper – IV

Anti-aging supplements may help to reverse the process of aging, but they need to be taken carefully. The Human Growth Hormone too needs to be taken in close consultation with a doctor. Not everyone’s body will absorb a dosage at the same rate or in the same manner. Sometimes it could take up to a month for the body to get used to the hormone.

Doctors: wary

The reason why doctors might be a little more wary of recommending Human Growth Hormone than they would be to advise, say, regular exercise, is that there’s not enough known about the long-term effects of injecting or taking in doses of the hormone at later stages in life.

People are increasingly turning to it when they find that regular exercise, efforts to stop smoking and staying away from the sun exposure can’t make them feel significantly younger. But by taking it and achieving immediate results, they might be jeopardizing long-term chances of health and well-being.

Human Growth Hormone – Digging Deeper – III

HGH is often taken by people who are conscious enough about the way they look to want to spend considerable amounts of money to achieve it. Exercise at the gym, heeding advice to stop smoking, maintaining a healthy weight: these aren’t good enough.

All about lean muscle
They want to beat every last wrinkle and convert every last sliver of tummy fat into lean muscle. These driven individuals often go in for collagen shots, Botox, Lifestyle Lift® treatments and so on, but increasingly they are likely to also consider HGH which could, allegedly, makes them look and feel younger. As more people stay active till later on in life, the need to look young at work is increasing and there’s a feeling that an injection of HGH will help you “stay in the game”.

Human Growth Hormone – Digging Deeper – II

Human Growth Hormone makes many claims, amongst them:

●The conversion of body fat to muscle mass
●Higher energy levels
●Tissue repair and growth
●Organ health
●Bone health

For those who can afford it
People who can afford to inject some amount of HGH on a regular basis in order to feel younger and more confident. Those who use it say that what’s great about it is that it also makes you more clear-minded and more youthful and energetic.

But while there are certain ways to beat signs of aging that nobody can really disagree on, such as regular exercise, maintaining a healthy weight, avoiding sun exposure and so on, there are other ways which are more controversial. For instance, some research has suggested that the HGH, which is one of many anti-aging supplements, might cause cancer. Other doctors say it increases no cancer risk if there is no pre-existing cancer. The HGH has also been linked with nerve pain, elevated cholesterol and increased risks for diabetes, but again there has been no conclusive proof.

Human Growth Hormone – Digging Deeper – I

Newer, more efficient ways to beat wrinkles – including Botox, anti-aging supplements and Lifestyle Lift® treatments – mean that it wouldn’t be too surprising to suddenly take a long time to recognize someone you know quite well. They might have had a quick Lifestyle Lift® over the weekend: a nip here, a tuck there… and have a whole new look.

The effects of some anti-aging supplements are more dramatic than others though. Let’s say you were at the beach and you saw someone who looked like they might be a grandpa, in their sixties, complete with balding white head and a wrinkled face, but with a toned 30-year-old person’s body. You could be watching the effects of the Human Growth Hormone (HGH).

This hormone is produced by the pituitary gland, mostly in young children and adolescents, to spur growth and help the body develop and take shape in a healthy way. What you couldn’t do without in your childhood is now one of the most popular choices amongst other anti-aging supplements; it can be injected (which tends to be the more expensive option) or taken in the pill, powder or spray form. In many ways the Human Growth Hormone is like the fountain of youth: just ingest it, and all the energy, vitality and strength of your younger years will come flooding back.

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