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["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lflj@intrex.net>]

lbsaltzman@aol.com wrote:

> I would love to hear from people with the microbiology background, but this 
> makes me very nervous.

Have you seen Blade Runner? but with the following technology and use of HGH the driods could live indefinitely instead 
of the preprogramed 4 years; that's assuming they can clone humans and grow normal beings in a petri dish:
- I hear Huckabee is going to try and make US constitutional changes giving 
unborn fetuses civil rights..
See: http://boingboing.net/ for unbelievable human rights violations. Talk 
about making one nervous.            
                
HGH in forefront to remain young
Dr. Andre Berger says the patients requesting HGH from him are getting 
younger and younger.
By David Mattingly and Ismael Estrada
CNN LOS ANGELES, California -- Dr. Andre Berger sees himself as a pioneer. Where others in the medical community believe 
injections of human growth hormone should be given to adults in only rare cases, Berger believes it is a crucial part of 
keeping people young and vital.

Berger, who has been practicing anti-aging and holistic medicine for 30 years, says he is now prescribing injections of 
HGH to about one out of every four people he treats at his Rejuvalife Vitality Institute in Beverly Hills.

"People come here for generally two reasons; they want to look better, and they 
want to feel better," Berger says.

While Berger says most of his patients are middle-aged, he's now getting calls from Hollywood 30-somethings wanting HGH 
and rap artists inquiring about illegal steroids, something he does not offer.

"They feel that part of being a rap star is looking buff and having big muscles, etc., so anything they can do to bring 
themselves to look like that is going to enhance the whole image," he says.

HGH has been used since the 1950s to help children with growth problems, but it stayed under the radar for other uses 
until 1990, when Dr. Daniel Rudman reported in the New England Journal of Medicine that men taking a six-month course of 
HGH reduced their body fat by 14.4 percent while increasing lean muscle mass by 8.8 percent.
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The study included just a dozen men, but it inspired a flood of anti-aging literature touting the benefits of growth 
hormone, along with countless Web sites selling HGH creams and sprays.

Endocrinologists say those products, though, are worthless -- the body can use HGH only when it's injected to treat 
patients with HGH, Berger says they must be diagnosed with a deficiency of HGH, which happens naturally as the body ages.

"It's a very important hormone, but it's not something to be taken in 
isolation," he says.

Berger says he prescribes HGH to restore normal levels of the hormone and makes it part of a broader long-term treatment 
program including diet, nutritional supplements, exercise and other hormone replacement.

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But critics argue that doctors are taking huge risks by administering HGH because it hasn't been studied extensively 
long-term and says many of the same benefits can be found in diet and exercise alone.

"There are serious side effects associated with using growth hormone for these individuals including an elevated risk of 
cancer, diabetes," says Dr. Jay Olshansky of the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Olshansky, who has studied anti-aging for over 20 years, contends that many of the claims are just false and says that 
only in the rarest of cases can HGH be prescribed legally.

"It can be prescribed in adults for only two things; muscle-wasting associated with HIV/AIDS, which is extremely rare, 
and for adult growth hormone deficiency," he says.