The "Increased IGF-1 Over 400%" Claim

The sellers of one particular HGH product claim their product increased IGF-1 levels over 400%. They may even give long narratives about the patients in their clinical studies but you won't find the name of a doctor (that is legible), or the name of a facility mentioned anywhere in their clinical studies. They won't say who did the studies or where the studies were done so that should tell you something. Obviously the clinical studies they advertise are not legitimate if no doctors or facilities will place their names on the work!

The Increased IGF-1 "Up to" a Certain Amount Claim

Some claim their product increased IGF-1 up to a certain percent. For instance, they may advertise their product increased IGF-1 levels up to 240%. What they are doing is advertising only the IGF-1 result of the one patient who had the highest IGF-1 increase in their study. They are using this one result to make it appear that their formula has higher clinical results than it has. This is very misleading.

We could also just advertise the result of the one patient who had the highest result in our study and ignore all the others in the group who did not have such a high result; this would raise the IGF-1 results we could advertise even higher, but by doing this we would be misrepresenting the study results. This is exactly what some are doing.

The results of all patients must be measured using the same guidelines and the results of all patients who participated in the study must be included in the end result.

How much faith should you place in a company who reports their clinical results in this way?

They try to convince you their product is best based only on the result of the one patient who gave them the most positive result, which helps their cause, and they ignore the results of all their other patients who did not have such a high result.

The "Doubled IGF-1" Claim

Lastly, some competitors are claiming their product "doubled IGF-1 levels" but that is all the information they give. They don't show you any evidence that a clinical study was actually done.

They have no clinical study specifics on their web site such as the pre and post IGF-1 levels of the patients, they don't tell you who did the study or where it was done, and they don't give you the average IGF-1 increase of the group at the end of the study.

If they had legitimate clinical studies they would not just mention them, they would make sure everyone who visits their web site sees their results.

Just stating that an HGH product "doubled IGF-1 levels" doesn't tell you anything. For instance, if a patient had a pre therapy IGF-1 level of 1 and their product raised that patient's IGF-1 level to 2, would that be an effective product? The patient's IGF-1 level would have been doubled like the company or distributor claims. Of course that product would not be considered effective.

Hopefully no patient will ever have an IGF-1 level of only 1, I am only making the point that only stating a product "doubled IGF-1 levels" is not giving any information about effectiveness, and is very misleading.

Lisa Wells, RN

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