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First off, you should understand that growth hormone is a problem only when its too low or too high in an individual. There's some really good information here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_hormone
Excess GH can only be caused by either a pituitary tumour (which leads to gigantism) or by exogenous injections (commonly used by athletes and in anti-aging treatments). In these cases, a rare form of type II diabetes can develop.
Barring these factors, GH can vary significantly in an individual, from what would be considered high-normal to low-normal. Aging and certain lifestyle factors lower GH. This is a fact. It is one of the most significant correlations with aging that we have. Anyone that tells you low GH is a good thing is off their rocker (for lack of a better term =) NHE's goal is to reverse this trend and bring GH to the high-normal range.
Rest assured that the only sure fire way to develop type-II diabetes is too become fat or to consume a lot of fructose (as in high-fructose corn syrup). Moderately improving GH status using NHE will only serve to improve insulin sensitivity.
Cheers,
Joel
On 8/31/06, fueled_on_ascorbate <fueled_on_ascorbate@...
> wrote:
Growth Hormone seems to promote diabetes in two ways:
1) by GH's ability to increase free fatty acid concentration in the blood following lipolysis
(acts directly on beta cells in pancreas?)
2) by a sort of negative feedback loop which downregulates insulin receptors (because GH
utilizes parts of the insulin signalling pathway)
Please bring relief to my concerns. Does NHE promote diabetes?
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