posted Tue, 10/16/2012 - 16:59
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When is the right time for HGH?
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40 yr old with past experience in AAS, about to enter the life of TRT late week. Gonna get labs Fri to see how much work I have to do to get things right. Gonna turn up the volume on the training and diet. I suspect Ill get my baseline test to a cruising speed- so It has been recommended by Tread-m before I cycle.
At what point should I throw in the HGH? SHould I wait and get in better shape and until labs look better, or should i have the HGH help me get there? \
This is an extemely important topic for me- so help a brother out.
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tread-mLooking through what you have here so far, 8 months below for example is not sufficient time for ?long term hrt therapy in the anti-aging dept etc. Lets put it this way, if we could see pics of tenacious in 5 years without hgh therapy and pics with it I think the diffference would be very obvious. As to long term safety I used Stallone being on it for 3 decades as an example and Vike said in anothr post that Stallone being the ugly mofo he is would be the reason he's not using hgh. So let me be clear, I don't claim hgh makes you pretty if your ugly but if you were to be able to see the difference in what he looks like body wise now vs if he had not used hgh therapy he may look like someones 90 yr old grandma's ass crack! Lol
Heres the points about the addition of hgh in your therapy.
Trt "does not cause new cell production". Yes, you do make the cells you have and the new ones your body create healthier by there are no "additional" new cells abov and betond what the body was already going to produce. Hgh will help create new cells above and beyond what the body was going to make. So think about what aging is and why we do age. When you are in youth the reason for that is that your body is producing way more cells than it needs to satify all your health needs in collogen repair for the skin, strong bones, tight weave in muscle/tendons etc. So when the body is poducing more cells than it can actually use you are in youth and not aging at all, actually getting stronger by the day in terms of health. So aging actually bebins at the very moment in time when the body can no longer produce as many cells as are dying/sluffing. So the actual fountain of youth will be when we find a way to produce all dying cells and stop aging all together. What we do have in hgh is a product that will produce some of the dying cells that the body is in deficit with and that means we "slow " aging down. Its a long process and hard to measur that which you cannot see change in because the change, againg, was just occuring slower. If you had a twin brother and one of you hrt and one rolls trt I think in 5 yrs the trt guy would say he wants the hrt route seeing his brother so much better off than he. Its not the fountain of youth but it is another tool in slowing the clock. Maybe you still die the same day you were going to anyway but you had a better quality of life up to that day, I don't know that answr. Its like I told my Dad once while trying to get him to stop smoking.. his comment was "I don't want to livge to be 100 son". My comment was "I'm not talking about livving longer, I'm talking about the quaity of the living you do". In the end his last few yrs of life were rrough and the final yr very rough with chemo and radiation and probably near 200 doc visits and scans and probes and tests and. On and on.....so there is sort of hthe point his quality would have been better through the improvements of not smoking and then maybe with hgh he would have added another 20% to the "quality" factor and had a very very happy healthy end to his life. Maybe spending days at a park rather than in a chemo chair, other days on vacation rather than laying dying in a bed etc. So do I think hgh might help me in 20 and 30 yrs live in the health Stallone is in vs sitting in a chair watching tv 8 hrs a day, I do think that. I think the extra cell production will give me a much higher quality of life and I think I have proof of that. Other 47 yr olds everywhere I go stare at me with a wtf look because I don't look right in there world view. Why does he not have a gut like I do. Why does he not moan when he stands up from a chair, why does he walk so damn fast and appear to feel good. Whats he so fing happy about. Hey, you're not supposed to play football with the young guys, get over here in the shade in a chair and help us eat cheetos and drink beer and watch the young guys! So theres my personal proof which is all I have. Every function I go to I gravitate to the 25 and 30 yr olds and they gravitate to me. thats my age in my mind because I literally feel that age. The guys my age don't even feel comfortable around me and its obvious they feel inferior. They should, hey are inferior. I don't mean that as a person just physically and metally from an age standpoint I am not 47, not even close. My weekends for example, I don't think about relaxing I think about getting out and finding things to do, hangin in places 25 and 30 yr olds hang and doing the same sorts of activities. I never go "anywhere" that people my age are not looking for somthing easy to do. I want the rock wall and the bike riding and hiking and hell I still ride my sons skateboard in the drive and shoot hoops and do things that irritate people m age. When an average person my age see's a skateboard the last thought in their mind is to hop on it and I never walk by one I don't kicfk it out in front of me and fly down the drive. Point to close, I'm not normal because normal sucks. I choose to be what I am its a conscious decision and I have no doubt hgh plays a role in that . Will it be life altering in 8 months? Probably not. If you could use it in therapy for 5 yrs and then have the ability to see yourself without it and crawl in your body and see what you feel like without it would you say it had been life altering knowing that difference in reality.? Prrobably so IMO.heres the science and its fact not guess work. We know aging is from cell depletion. We know hgh creates new cells...thats pretty simple math in my world..
Put me in a room of 100 47 yr olds and ask 10 people "whats wrong with this picture"? I'll be whats wrong with it because I grew shoulders out of my shoulders and don't have a spare tire and I'm the guy thats standing and not eating chips and dip. Loool. What really hugs me are those who say to me as I try tk help them (family my age etc), "yeah but you've always had those good genes". It pisses me off because good genes are not why I am what I am, good habits are why. I don't spend my day thinking about how I can't wait to get home and plop in the easy chair and suck on a ccobur and watch tv. I spend my day thinking about how pissed I am at those weights and when I get of. I'm going to make their life a living hell ! Its about a conscious effort to do that which I am not supposed to do and do that which I am not supposed to be able to do. If you thnk in the box you live in the box. Think out of it and discover a whole new world olut here. I'm not saying hgh is your answer but it is one of mine. Notice I said 1 . Its one of many so you have to think of the army and not just one soldier. Think of a war going on in your body, good vs eveil. The more good troops you have to fight the evil troops the easier it is to defeat them. Its food and supps and exrcize and then a pssion for life you begin to find and the culminating effect of all that is a new you. It is conscious effert such as that which you are taking now. Very proactive in our youth. When you see what people your age do, DON'T DO IT! Serious, conscious effort. When they sit you stand, they eat cheetos, you drink a protein shake, they watch tv, you go for the stairmaster, they dip out a pile of nmac and cheese at thanksgiving, you dip out a pile of green beans and turkey, they butter the popcorn at the movie, you brought nuts no salt (lol)....its all around you. The common denominators that make you old and those that amke you young. Much of aging is choice believe it or not. So you take this mega pile of things that equate to youth and you use them. Hgh is a tiny part of anti-aging in the big picture, but its one more tiny part I prefer to use in my arsinal. Still, anti-aging is doing things the aging don't, day in and day out. Be youthful in your thinking and actions and thats the key to youthful aging.
Nice reply, tread. I'm not disagreeing with you. But as I said, for me it was more about the cost/ benefit analysis. I think hgh is priced artificially high. When the price comes down I think it will be an easier decision. And I think it will, it is just a matter of time before there is a good body of safety/ efficacy data that leads to lots of people doing it and that always leads to decreased cost. In the meantime, the subtle, albeit potentially significant long term effects, seem not worth it to me at this time. I can't put a number on it, but I feel like if you are doing everything right, hgh will only give you a couple of percentage points of improved quality of life. But this is just speculation on my part, which truthfully is all anyone has at this point to go on.
One thing I'd like to point out as a devil's advocate against your argument: in scientific inquiry there is something called causation error. You talk about hgh as a significant reason you are so youthful and vigorous compared to your peers. You may be right, but one might argue that it is because you (like most people who do hgh for HRT) are super health conscious. You eat right, you sleep enough, you manage stress, you exercise, you take health-promoting supplements, etc.
Like you said, hgh is just one tool, but I think all the other stuff is really the reason you are so youthful. Which is a testament to your commitment to health.
tread-mGood points for sure! I feel more strongly about gh than you might lend to it but you have to go with your experience for self. I'll tell you what I'm waiting for, cell cloning and injection. If you have not heard of it they announced the testing they were doing a few yrs back and I actually look for the day of a monthly cell injection in my lifetime and will potentially dwarf all other things we have done to date. Still, can you imagine all we do in conjunction with a big pop of your own cells monthly ? I'm not sure I want to live to be 200 (lol) but I would love to live to be 100 and feel 30 on my 99th bday. Big things coming I suspect in the next decade and maybe really really big things in the following decade once they really fine tune the cell production and application and delivery systems etc. Maybe we live to see the day you have a chip that tells you how often to stop by the clinic and recieve perfection in cell delivery for perfect health , PH, etc and we end cancer and other things with perfection in cell health. or look to cell replacement in terms of overwhelming the body with healthy cells to overcome disease etc. My mind races with the possibilities and most of it is just the science aspect of it being so interesting. I do think that will be the "next big thing" in BBing, cell delivery systems" one might use like we do gear. If you think todays freaks are amazing compared to yesteryear, wait until that shit takes off!!! Loool
Are you familiar with Ray Kurzweil and his book "The Singularity is Near" ? You'd dig it. There's also a documentary on him called "Transcendant Man." It used to be available on Netflix. Also super interesting.
I'm with you on the potential right around the corner. I think things like hgh are going to seem like chump change in not too long. I have some friends that have banked stem cells, and I've considered it, but haven't done it. Yet.
That's one to cut and paste and plageurize- lol!
Just kidding- it's funny...most every point you have made I have made to others
Who have asked me how to train-
I'd love to get a nice office- facility, advertise and network for a clinic.
Have semi retired MD come in for 20hrs per wk to write skripts and spend most
Of my time motivating people to change their lives- I feel that is my calling 3-5 yrs out.
Ill even make it a not for profit- (still collect good pay)
No one can ever tell me the shit in media-
These drugs were designed to HEAL!!! Not hurt-
Give them to an unhealthy, des eased or sick person- they IMProve.
Give them to healthy person- they get MORE healthy.
I have always pointed to Hollywood-
Those folks got money and have righ food, right doc, right meds-
Look at :
Clint Eastwood
Stallone
Dinero
Suzanne summers
I could go on and on and on...
These people have found the fountain and drink from it often.
Thx for info- always a pleasure reading ur work-
Peace
TD
thanks for reply. I heard effects are sublte. Im looking at it from a overall health perspective and all the benefits it claims- fat loss, bone density, mental clarity.etc
not looking for size-
any strength imporvement?
how many iu's did you take.
Arock,
I can't recall the daily dose, but a vial (5.8mg, I think) lasted me about 2 weeks. I literally noticed no positive effects. No fat loss, no mental clarity, no well being, but that may have been because I started it at the same time as TRT, and since I was low T, all the noticeable changes were from correcting that issue. But I have noticed no change since stopping it, either.
As I said, I think it may be useful over decades of replacement dosing, but the scientific jury is still out, and even though I can afford it, I didn't think the money was well spent at this point. I'd also like to see some long term safety data, particularly since I was using it for long term health purposes and not for BB results.
I don't think there is a wrong answer, but just realize that the objective evidence just isn't there yet, so whatever the HRT people tell you, it is a financial and health gamble. But not necessarily a bad bet.
TD
Thx for personal experiences- we are about same age So it helps-
Peace
I did hgh for about 8 months. Honestly, at the doses my trt doc wanted me on I didn't notice anything. I'm certain it is good for youthfulness and longevity (thought the jury is still out in terms of evidence), but I just didn't feel like it was worth the money. I really didn't feel any difference on it and now that I've been off of it for 4 months, I still don't feel any difference. Definitely didn't see a difference in my physique.
I'm no expert in hgh and BB, but I'm pretty sure the doses used by BB's are much higher than your doc will want you on. So I don't know if hgh is worth it from a hormone replacement strategy, at least not at age 40.
look at tread-ms profile and check out his forum posts...he has extensive ones about hgh and the right time to use
maybe I should pitch a tent in his jungle and wait for the APE to speak!
thanks-
take care!