Get at the Blueprint of Aging

The blueprint of aging is in the DNA under the hood of the telomere", the "clock" at the end of every chromosome that is shortened with each cell division, says noted plastic surgeon and anti-aging researcher, Vincent Giampapa, MD, director of clinical research at the Longevity Institute International in Montclair, New Jersey. To actually reverse aging at the cellular level, we will need a substance that will restore telomere length and like a genie turn old cells into young ones. That is not yet available, although Giampapa believes it will be in less than a decade. Until then, growth hormone and its attendant hormone IGF-1 can do the next best thing, help keep the cell in as healthy a state as possible.
The cell's ability to function depends on the genetic material, the DNA, in the nucleus of the cell which codes for all the proteins, hormones, and enzymes that make the cell run. The DNA is like an army under constant attack from oxygen free-radicals, ultraviolet light, the heat of the body, and other damaging factors. Although the DNA has the ability to repair itself, it falls down on the job with age, a victim of the same aging process that affects the cell. At the same time, damage is accumulating in the energy center of the cell, the mitochondria, which has its own DNA. Up until now, one of the few ways we could limit the damage to the DNA was to take antioxidant supplements such as vitamin C and E to bolster our own defenses.
But, according to Dr. Giampapa and Thierry Hertoghe, MD, a physician specializing in hormone replacement therapy in Brussels, the latest European research shows that human growth hormone and IGF-1 can go further than antioxidants and can do what antioxidants cannot. Human growth hormone and IGF-1 act like carriers to bring the cell the raw materials it needs for renovation and repair. IGF-1 launches the delivery of the nucleic acids, DNA and RNA, right into the cell nucleus, where the DNA resides. The nucleic acids are used to repair damage to the DNA and stimulate cell division. Growth hormone initiates the transport of amino acids, the building blocks of protein, and nucleic acids into the cytoplasm of the cell, the area outside the nucleus. This includes the cell membranes and intracellular organelles, such as the mitochondria. In this way, human growth hormone and IGF-1 don't just minimize the damage to the DNA and cellar structures, they help heal the cell and the DNA. These two hormones actually treat the blueprints of aging.

IGF 1 has been shown to have numerous benefits regarding anti-aging efects and health improvement such as:

 Improve heart strength and volume of blood pumped
 Improve Energy
 Improve Sex Life
 Lowers colesterol level
 Improve athletic performance
 Stimulate Quick Recovery from athletic performance or illness
 Improve Mood
 Extend life span in people that use it
 Reduce inflammation, simultaneously support and strengthen joint and connective tissue
 Increase red blood cell and hemoglobin production in animal studies
 Stimulate the production of white blood cells and to improve immunity
 Support muscle protein synthesis
 Stimulate glucose transport in human muscle tissue
 Diminish the rate of protein breakdown
 Shift fuel utilization from carbohydrates to fat, permitting the body to burn more fat
 Assist in the degradation of LDL cholesterol by macrophages
 Improve nitrogen retention and increase sodium excretion
 Improve parathyroid/Vitamin D interaction, producing denser bone matrix
 Enhance production of immune-promoting lymphoid tissue