IGF-1 Statements Made By Medical Professionals

Statements about IGF-1

According to the proponents of HGH, human growth hormone exerts most of its effects through IGF-1 so it is not surprising that IGF-1 will do for you what human growth hormone does, but more.

IGF-1 reduces fat, increases lean body mass, it builds lean muscle and strong bones, and it also regenerates the nervous system. By taking IGF-1 directly you bypass the pituitary gland that aging may have burned out.

Since HGH and IGF-1 work so closely together in the body they could be an team when used together as a homeopathic system.

Human growth hormone seems to be a "night hormone" and IGF-1 a "day hormone" (one reason why both are needed), so the two could, as supplements work synergistically and catalytically in the body. "Feeling Younger With Homeopathic HGH", Dr. Howard Davis.

"The New England Journal of Medicine", March 28, 1996, reports "Growth hormone and IGF-1 may contribute to improvements in cardiac performance... and can improve the efficiency of energy metabolism in the heart."

Nelly Mauras and Bernard Beaufrere, at the Children's Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida, showed that IGF-1 improves glucose metabolism.

John Wittig, MD, UCLA, has been using IGF-1 to prevent AIDS wasting in HIV-infected patients.

Phil Micans, of International Aging Systems predicts that IGF-1 will be the "hormone of choice" in a few years.

Hans-Arne Hansson, Swedish scientist of the Institute of Neurobiology at the University of Goteborg found that IGF-1 regenerates nerves damaged by injury or illness.

He states that insulin-like growth factor-1 by itself and in combination with other growth factors is "likely to be of importance in promoting healing and repair processes in clinical practice within a few years".

Keith Kelly, Ph.D., research immunologist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, when speaking about anti-aging therapy he predicts "the main player is going to be IGF-1".

Eric Dupont, Ph.D., head of Aeterna Laboratories in Quebec states that human growth hormone (HGH) is the general and the growth factors are the foot soldiers that go and do the work locally in the body's tissue.

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