From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Nov 25 2002 - 19:26:31 MST
Robert J. Bradbury Sent:
> On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, gts wrote:
>
>> Rafal Smigrodzki wrote:
>>
>>> HGH acts through insulin-like growth factor II
>>
>> Actually it acts through insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1).
>>
>
> Now this is an interesting debate -- two well informed individuals
> looking at what are the *real facts*.
:)
Human growth hormone causes the liver to produce IGF-1, which is an
anabolic hormone similar to that of insulin. Other insulin-like growth
factors are also produced but IGF-1 is the factor thought to be
responsible for the positive anabolic effects of growth hormone.
By the way growth hormone is not unhealthy when taken in normal
physiological replacement doses (about 1 iu per day). Adverse side
effects occur when the excessive doses are used, as in the Blackman
study currently in the news in which the subjects received three 7 iu
injections per week.
-gts
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