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The physiological replacement dose of somatropin is 1.5 units nightly for men and 1.8 units for women. To convert to milligrams, divide the unit dose by three, i.e., 0.5 mg for men and 0.6 mg for women. Using somatropin, even at physiological doses, when you don't need it will suppress the...

Amen, Brother! Preach it! I just wish that more people realize this. Insurance is for direct, interventional use, e.g., heart attack, diabetes, hypertension, but is not for preventive medicine (no matter how much they say they like preventive medicine). Since when do quality supplements get...

The only real problem with the "Mexico route" is making sure that you get quality stuff and not counterfeit. Mexico isn't exactly the best place for quality pharmaceuticals. In addition, what do you do? Take a trip down to Mexico, get the HGH, mix it up, slam it into your body and then go back...

Excellent idea about if the hormone levels are low, then correct them. Testosterone is easy. Just test the total testosterone, the sex hormone binding globulin and the albumin, plug the values into the calculator and...voila! presto chango! you have the bioavailable testosterone and NOONE can...

Actually HCG - human chorionic gonadotropin - works better in the ball growing business... All kidding aside...you must be joking! What is good medicine and what is legal are sometimes two separate things. So if "I" decide to do what is "right" for my patient, who has not suffered a traumatic...

As an anti-aging physician, I cannot believe you guys do stupid stuff like that...take a clue from your body...you got low blood sugar because you are screwing with your metabolism the wrong way. Unless you are over 40, you don't need human growth hormone - somatropin - and you shouldn't be...

No need to worry about "wearing out" the pituitary since it is a therapeutic dose and the negative feedback system is in place with somatostatin to tampen down any excess analog that you may inject. You see, you can't even overdose on the stuff...you would literally waste it. It is sorry to see...

I am an anti-aging physician in Fresno, CA, and I use a lot of different hormones for replacement of deficiencies. I do not believe in supra-physiologic doses of any hormone but I use the guideline that all men and women over 30 years old should have the hormones at the optimal level of a 30...

I agree that pellets are an old delivery system but never taught here in the US. Dr. Ed Lichten taught me (though I do it quite a bit different now than I did originally). I don't use the brandname Testopel since they are expensive. I use the pellets from College Pharmacy in Colorado Springs...

Testosterone itself will lower sex hormone binding globulin . If it is high, you need to look if you are somehow pissing off your liver by taking oral steroids (women get this problem with birth control pills and older women get it with oral HRT). But transdermal/implanted/injected T should...

What is your total T and your bioavailable T? Dr. Work

As a physician who prescribes a lot of testosterone, you really want to avoid the injectable T. You may feel great on it but it has its problems, especially with aromatization, so you would need to take either Arimidex or Femara twice a week to keep estradiol levels down to healthy levels. I...