Growth Hormone: Fountain of Youth?
September 1, 2007 – 7:31 am | by admin
“Among the islands on the north side of Hispaniola…in which there is a continual spring of running water, of such marvellous virtue that the water thereof being drunk, perhaps with some diet, maketh old men young again.”
Pietro Martire d’Anghiera
1472-1528
Italian geographer and historian
(In a letter to Pope Leo X in 1513)
When Sylvester Stallone came to Australia recently to promote his movie “Rocky Balboa“, about an ageing ex-champ miraculously turning back the clock in the ring, he was detained by Customs due to the presence in his luggage of a large number of mysterious vials. He told the press it was a storm in a teacup and that the substance in the vials was harmless and something he had been taking for years to improve his health and appearance.
He certainly looked great for a man approaching 60.
When his lawyers were obliged to fly to Australia later to attend court, it was revealed that the mysterious elixir was human growth hormone, something his fellow aspirants to youth and good looks have been injecting for years, generating billions of dollars for the doctors who skate around US laws and attract the ire of the FDA as they prescribe it in staggering amounts.
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