A plastic surgeon in Britain claims that injecting human growth hormone can "reverse" the aging process and make you live younger and more energetic. Some domestic websites are also selling auxin anti-aging products at high prices. Is it true?/You don't say. /You don't say. Is there really an "elixir of life" in the world?
plastic surgeon
Try the "elixir of life"
It is reported that at the end of August, Jaya prakash, a 55-year-old plastic surgeon in Harley Street, London, announced that he had found a way to rejuvenate himself-injecting human growth hormone. Prakash claimed that he and his wife were injected with 15 months of frozen human growth hormone. He said: "People are convinced that I have done plastic surgery for her. But in fact, she did nothing but inject human growth hormone. "
In an interview with the media, prakash declared that he was quite satisfied with the therapeutic effect of injection three times a week: his skin was "more shiny", he felt more energetic and his sexual desire was "rising". Although experts denounced the danger of this anti-aging method, in fact, prakash was just one of many people who regarded human growth hormone as a panacea.
The reporter also found some human growth hormone products for sale on some domestic shopping websites, claiming that this product has the effects of losing weight, breast enhancement, wrinkle removal, enhancing sexual function and memory, and improving sleep. And expensive, a small bottle of human growth hormone market as high as 980 yuan.
Human auxin
Has not been proved to be effective.
The reporter found that in the promotion of these products, without exception, an article entitled "Application of Human Growth Hormone in the Elderly over 60" published by Dr. Daniel Roudman of Wisconsin in the world's most authoritative medical magazine "New England Journal of Medicine" in the 1990s was quoted. In fact, the New England Journal of Medicine is very disgusted that articles published in its magazine are used to promote some unsafe and reliable products. Now, if you want to download Roudman's paper, you will receive a strict note from the editor that human growth hormone therapy has not been proved to be effective.
In Britain, human growth hormone is a prescription drug, which is usually used for children with growth hormone deficiency and adults with growth hormone deficiency after pituitary resection. Most notably, there is no long-term follow-up study on people who have been injected with auxin to reveal the long-term effects such as increased cancer risk.
May trigger
Heart failure and cancer
The key problem in the application of human growth hormone is that if a drug has biological effects, it will also have side effects. The consequences of some athletes abusing human growth hormone have confirmed this: heart failure, diabetes and cancer.
Human growth hormone can change body composition, but it can't improve body function. People who inject too much human growth hormone will suffer from muscle weakness and carpal tunnel syndrome, and the nerves in patients' hands will be restricted, resulting in pain and loss of function. Scientists' research on animals shows that mice with extremely high auxin levels live much shorter lives than mice with normal auxin levels. This study shows that the lack of auxin itself will not aggravate the aging process, but the high level of auxin will aggravate this process.
Extraction of auxin from cadaveric pituitary by chain ligation
Human growth hormone (HGH) is a kind of protein secreted by pituitary gland, which mainly promotes children's growth and development, and promotes various body functions including metabolism. Children who lack growth hormone are small and thin, which is why auxin should be used to help those children who lack growth hormone grow and develop normally. Excessive secretion of auxin by adults can lead to acromegaly (a kind of gigantism).
Scientists knew the existence of human auxin as early as 1920, but it was not used for clinical treatment until 1958. Its biggest clinical limitation is that it is extracted from the pituitary gland of a corpse. It takes thousands of dead pituitary glands to extract a few drops of human auxin. However, after using the human growth hormone extracted in this way for several years, several users were found to be infected with a deadly virus, and the patients' muscles gradually atrophied, dementia, and died a few years later, which was later confirmed as mad cow disease. Therefore, in the 1980s, the US Food and Drug Administration ordered to stop applying all human growth hormone extracted from the pituitary gland of the deceased to the human body. Now through genetic technology, very pure human auxin can be extracted.