HGH and sex hormones work together
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From an international symposium in Tempe, Arizona, Dr. Cranton abbreviated certain notes. The faculty included university and medical school professors from institutions around the world, such as Johns Hopkins University, NIH, Mayo, Harvard, UVA, UCLA, UCSF, and many more.
According to the excerpts from the notes, HGH and IGF-1 do not promote cancer. Patients with acromegally, who have a pituitary tumor producing massive amounts of HGH, do not have a significantly increased incidence of cancer. Children treated with HGH for dwarfism also do not have an increase in childhood cancer. Also, people receiving HGH by injection for anti-aging have not shown any increase in cancer.
It’s true that IGF-1 blood levels correlate with the incidence of cancers of the sex hormone-dependent organs, (prostate and breast). But that is because IGF-1 is needed for the effectiveness of sex hormones estrogen and testosterone. IGF-1 by itself does not have any effect on cancer. But a sex hormone-dependent cancer (breast or prostate) can be slowed with surgical castration or also by chemically blocking sex hormone effect (Lupron or Tamoxifen). This can be achieved by making IGF-1 deficiency.
So, it is such that cancer can be slowed by depriving the body of IGF-1 and it is not that IGF-1 is the cause of cancer. So, testosterone replacement in men and estrogen replacement in women do not cause cancer by themselves in studies done so far.
Again, HGH is also not as effective if testosterone or estrogen is low. So, HGH and sex hormones work together synergistically. It works both ways.
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