The video for Madonna's new song "4 Minutes (To Save The World)," a collaboration with Justin Timberlake and Timbaland, has debuted. Kissing, dancing and Madonna's enviable figure permeate the dance track.
HGH is a controversial hormone although it is something that does occur naturally in the human body.
Devotees inject themselves with HGH as they believe that by boosting the levels of HGH in the body, they can slow their biological clock down and therefore stay looking younger for longer.
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The benefit of growth hormone
By Tamara McLean March 13, 2007
THEY landed Sly Stalone in a heap of trouble on his recent visit to Australia, but human growth hormone drugs are drawing more interest as an elixer of happiness, health and youth.
The hormone, produced naturally by the pituitary gland to promote healthy growth, is used to help young sick children and is claimed to improve looks, sex life, sight, hair and sleep when taken in synthetic form. But experts say the chemical's apparent ability to turn fat into muscle is what fuels its popularity on the black market.
"It's most widely abused because it appears that it builds up muscle at the expense of fatty tissue,'' says biochemist and director of the Kolling Institute of Medical Research, Professor Rob Baxter. "The reduction of abdominal fat is the single most profound effect of hGH replacement,'' it states.
''(It will also) increase muscle mass and physical strength if combined with moderate exercise.''
Prof Baxter said there had been no trials in humans to prove the hormone could do this, but experiments on pigs had shown "obvious muscle gain''.
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Cosmetic Surgery Bible - Combatting aging through hormone injections
By CSB on Monday, November 12, 2007
Hormone injections are one of the latest cosmetic surgery crazes in America. Most people know that hormones can affect our moods and skin, however it turns out that they may also have a part to play in wrinkles, beautiful hair, cellulite and fat deposits therefore it is no wonder that the beauty industry has an interest in them.[..]
Demi Moore, Madonna, Jennifer Aniston and Pamela Anderson are all rumoured to be fans of Human Growth Hormone (HGH).
There are also some concerns that people look to hormone treatments as a cure-all and some untrained or unscrupulous practitioners are trying to cash in on this lucrative market, particularly in the ‘natural’ hormone market – some hormone treatments have little or no scientific grounding and the only effect they have is that of a placebo.
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Youth hormone - miracle elixir or dangerous drug?
Tuesday, 24th July, 2007
If you type the term "human growth hormone" into the search engine Google you will find more than 5 million entries including paid adverts from web sites around the world touting it as a miracle cure for all the ills of ageing.
The popularity of hgH followed an experiment in the US in 1990 in which a group of 12 men aged over 60 years saw dramatic changes in their bodies as signs of ageing melted away.In the Rudman Study, named after Dr Daniel Rudman, fat turned to lean muscle, bone density increased, skin became thicker and the men looked generally dramatically younger. Their sex drive also increased. They were monitored for adverse effects but there were none. [..]
One doctor who has used the treatment on herself is Dr Cecilia Tregear. She says that when she reached the age of 50, she was overweight with a BMI (Body Mass Index) of 29 to 30 and looked older than her years and tired. So she embarked on multiple hormone replacement therapy after testing her own blood for deficiencies.
After two years of treatment she says she was transformed by her treatment which included a course of bio-identical hormones.
'My BMI was down to 23 and I was full of energy,' she says.'The wrinkles had vanished from my skin.My brain worked much better and there was no sign of osteoporosis,’ says Dr Tregear
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Could hormone injections hold the secret to youthful looks?
By CLAIRE COLEMAN - Last updated at 09:57am on 13th November 2007
[..] As we age, most of our hormone levels drop, causing hair loss, thin skin, wrinkles and lack of muscle tone. But today's lifestyle subjects us to many factors that can prematurely deplete them.
No wonder so many celebrities are looking at hormone therapy. Madonna, Demi Moore, Pamela Anderson, Jennifer Aniston and Debbie Harry are all rumoured to be fans of injections of the controversial Human Growth Hormone (HGH).
Touted as the elixir of youth, HGH promotes tissue repair and cell growth and supports the immune system. HGH is produced by the body, but as we age, production diminishes and some people believe that by artificially boosting levels, our biological clocks can be slowed down.
Devotees in the U.S. regularly inject themselves with high concentrations of the substance - though this isn't yet common practice in the UK.
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HGH (human growth hormone) is nothing
the 61-year-old actor tells Time magazine in its Feb. 4 issue.