Dr Ken Romeo – Anti Aging – DHEA, hGH and Hormone Replacement Therapy – Reno Nevada

OPINION:  Dr Ken Romeo   775-870-6942

The most important health care need in successful aging is to age with less frailty and dependency. This means adopting an anti aging program into your life immediately.

The anti aging industry is booming and claims to slow aging and even stop and reverse the effects of natural aging. Stop aging? …..Quackery???

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One of the mainstays of many anti-aging practices is hormone replacement therapy. Why? Women live approximately one third of their lives in a state of sex-hormone deficiency. Men are also subject to age-related testosterone decline, and unfortunately, testosterone-level therapy remains frequently underdiagnosed.

DHEA levels also decrease with age and the importance of supplementing DHEA cannot be overstated. Also, growth hormone age-associated decrease and the insulin growth factor-1 levels found in elderly individuals are sometimes as low as those encountered in adult patients with established deficiency. However, rhGH and HGH remain controversial therapy in an anti aging practice. Further safety evidence for treating a patient off label with rhGH/hGH is necessary.

The effects of not beginning a natural anti aging program include: skin aging, decreases in lean body mass, decreases in bone mineral density (osteoporosis), lowered sexual desire and erectile function, decreased intellectual activity and unstable mood. Each of these conditions may be a part of hormone deficiencies and the lower levels of hormones that occur as one ages. But the good news is that a properly constructed anti aging program will have a positive effect on each “age related” condition listed above!

Huge disagreements between the various scientific societies and actual use of hormone supplements in aging and elderly patients exist. Remember, if you start early enough and begin to practice an anti aging regimen in your daily life, radical hormone replacement therapy which may not be safe may never have to be started in the first place!

Yours in Health!

Dr. Ken Romeo

Dr. Ken Romeo is a Principal and Chief Clinical Data Coordinator for the Healthy Aging Research Foundation (HARF) in Reno, NV.

Though each article and/or opinion contained on this Blog is derived from published Clinical and Research data contained in various national and international databases with links provided, if used,

NO ARTICLE OR CONCLUSION IS MEANT TO DIAGNOSE, TREAT, PREVENT OR CURE DISEASE.

CONSULT YOUR HEALTH PROFESSIONAL BEFORE MAKING ANY CHANGES TO YOUR HEALTH REGIMEN.

Contact: DrKenRomeo1@yahoo.com (Reno, NV) 775-870-6942

Dr Ken Romeo -Anti Aging - HGH and Testosterone Treatments - Reno, Nevada

OPINION: Dr Ken Romeo   775-870-6942

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The current use of hormones such as testosterone and hGH for rejuvenation is increasing with the aging of the US population. But steroid therapy does not come without risks.

Injections of testosterone and anabolic steroids are known to suppress natural testosterone production which could lead to severely lowered sperms counts. This is not good news for men desiring children at a later age and  who may be unaware of the side-effect profile of hormones injected at anti aging rejuvenation centers.

But there is some hope. Therapies that protect against low sperm count involve human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) therapy and selective estrogen receptor modulators.

Current studies examining the effect of human growth hormone (hGH) on infertile men are uncontrolled and unconvincing, and they do not appear to negatively impact lowered sperm count. At present, the routine use of aromatase inhibitors is not universally recommended because of the lack of long-term data. But the reality is that aromatase inhibitors are widely prescribed in conjunction with testosterone therapy.

There is no question that Testosterone and anabolic androgenic steroids have well-established detrimental effects on sperm count, but recovery may be possible with cessation.

Further, Clomiphene citrate, human growth hormone (HGH)/insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1), human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), and aromatase inhibitors do not appear to have significant negative effects on sperm production, but quality data is currently lacking.

Be sure to discuss these issues with our physician prior to beginning an anti aging programs based on hormonal regulation.

Yours in Health!

Dr. Ken Romeo

Dr. Ken Romeo is a Principal and Chief Clinical Data Coordinator for the Healthy Aging Research Foundation (HARF) in Reno, NV.

Though each article and/or opinion contained on this Blog is derived from published Clinical and Research data contained in various national and international databases with links provided, if used,

NO ARTICLE OR CONCLUSION IS MEANT TO DIAGNOSE, TREAT, PREVENT OR CURE DISEASE.

CONSULT YOUR HEALTH PROFESSIONAL BEFORE MAKING ANY CHANGES TO YOUR HEALTH REGIMEN.

Contact: DrKenRomeo1@yahoo.com (Reno, NV) 775-870-6942

Human Growth Hormone. Dr Ken Romeo A history of hGH, rhGH and Anti Aging Treatments- Reno Nevada

OPINION: Dr Ken Romeo   775-870-6942

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1956 was the year that growth hormone therapy was first introduced. In 1956, the growth hormone was of pig origin. Studies in 1956 and 1957 that lasted approximately 3 weeks in length produced no effects in the administration of growth hormone in humans.

But the race had begun. By 1958 three laboratories began extracting hGH from human pituitaries, purified it and used it for clinical investigations.

Dosing and supply of hGH became a problem.Approximately 1 mg of hGH was needed to treat one patient per day. Thus, greater than 360 human pituitaries were needed per patient per year. So it comes as no shock that the availability of hGH was limited and was awarded on the basis of clinical research protocols approved by the National Pituitary Agency established in 1961

The race to produce hGH continued and by 1977 a centralized laboratory was established to extract all human pituitaries in the US. But still a hurdle existed. The widespread use of hGH was not possible even if a pituitary from each autopsy performed in the US was collected. Mathematically, this would only permit therapy for about 4,000 patients.

The mass production of rhGH required the identification of the gene structure of the hormone, so scientists began to experiment with the methodology that began in 1976 to make insulin by recombinant technology.

Then....Serendipity!!! “Serendipity” in drug discovery means the finding of one thing while looking for something else. This took place in approximately 1985 in the rhGH (hGH) process.

The creation of a synthetic rhGH was accompanied by unlimited supplies of the drug for investigation and therapy.

So that's the history of human growth hormone but here's the point: rhGH and hGH are drugs of potential abuse when used off label.

The FDA Package Insert states the indications for use of recombinant human growth hormone as:

"OMNITROPE® is a recombinant human growth hormone indicated for:

• Pediatric: Treatment of children with growth failure due to growth hormone deficiency (GHD), Prader-Willi Syndrome, Small for Gestational Age, Turner syndrome, and Idiopathic Short Stature 

• Adult: Treatment of adults with either adult onset or childhood onset GHD (Growth Hormone Deficiency)" (Source: Omnitrope FDA Package Insert)

hGH/rhGH treats serious medical conditions but has become a staple in anti aging protocols. I cannot agree with utilizing rhGH as an anti aging treatment at this time.

The inappropriate use of rhGH by athletes and anti aging physicians should be a primary concern to society and should be halted. The abuse of prescribing rhGH in an attempt to retard the aging process needs to be fully investigated before rhGH becomes an off label treatment in anti aging medicine. Patient safety should always be a primary concern and natural substances are available to help with anti aging protocols that have few, if any, side effects. What's more....they work!!!

Aging is not a disease. Rather it is a normal progress of life. Many safer alternatives exist in the world of anti aging rather than the administration of human growth hormone which has not been fully studied.

Yours in Health!

Dr. Ken Romeo

Dr. Ken Romeo is a Principal and Chief Clinical Data Coordinator for the Healthy Aging Research Foundation (HARF) in Reno, NV.

Though each article and/or opinion contained on this Blog is derived from published Clinical and Research data contained in various national and international databases with links provided, if used,

NO ARTICLE OR CONCLUSION IS MEANT TO DIAGNOSE, TREAT, PREVENT OR CURE DISEASE.

CONSULT YOUR HEALTH PROFESSIONAL BEFORE MAKING ANY CHANGES TO YOUR HEALTH REGIMEN.

Contact: DrKenRomeo1@yahoo.com (Reno, NV) 775-870-6942