The growing demand for HGH in the search for eternal youth
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It has become a rage among the middle-aged men who are spending as much as $15,000 an year on human growth hormone in an attempt to arrest their youth. Although. The FDA has strict rules that only children with growth disorders and adults with severe hormone deficiencies can be precribed with HGH, a Sunday Age investigation has found many anti-ageing clinics in Melbourne’s wealthier suburbs are flouting regulations by prescribing to people as young as 35 who want to look good, stay fit and boost their sex lives.
Because possession of HGH without a prescription is illegal and its import is prohibited, black-market sales are booming, so much so that a former dealer claims that $5000 worth of the drug can fetch up to $50,000 on the street.
Australian Customs has reported a four-fold increase in HGH seizures in the last year. Imports from China have risen steeply but the United States remains the main source of supply. Gabrielle Caswell, from the Cosmetic Physicians Society of Australia, said demand for HGH soared in 2007 after Hollywood star Sylvester Stallone was caught at Sydney Airport trying to bring 48 vials of the drug into Australia.
John Levin, a 77-year-old Prahran doctor, has been injecting the drug for 15 years and prescribes it to 100 patients who want to delay old age. He says 70 per cent are men and insists there are no health risks at low doses, typically less than 0.33 milligrams a day.
“I feel great, I feel like I’m 50 — and I’m going to be 80 in two years,” Dr Levin said. “I don’t give it to my patients for aesthetic reasons. I give it purely to get a better quality of life.”
Ken Ho, chair of endocrinology at St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney, said misuse could increase the risk of cancer and elongate the jaw. Professor Ho said the medical properties of HGH were being exploited by anti-ageing clinics.
“They are trying to sell an expectation that if you’re 55 and you no longer have the body of a 21-year-old, then you can reclaim former glories by taking these drugs. There are claims about improved sex life, which are completely unfounded … They are trying to tell you that ageing is an insidious disease, but there is no hormone that can stop ageing.”
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