myo56

hi i am wanting to know the ins and outs of growth hormone i am quite new to steroids and other proformance enhancement drugs does growth hormone if taken alone increase muscle mass i have been told it does by some people and others have said it does not could some one please clear this subject up for me please thanks you

Jay Walker

Do a search, loads of info on here about it.
In short, if you new to the game, dont even think about it. When used correctly, growth can facilitate the production of new muscle cells, and fatloss. But, the results arent spectacular, and it should only really be used when you've exhausted all other avenues. It really is no magic fix, nothing is.

The best muscle enhancement out there is food.
How long you been training? whats your diet like? what age are you??

I personally think HGH is for advanced users only.

Pscarb

do a search in the Muscle Research forum and the article section you will find lots of info...

if you are new to performance enhancing drugs then using GH is the last thing you want to do you will get very little return for your money GH is for advanced users only...

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mars1960

Have a read of these clinical studies, but as pscarb said "advanced users only" injectable HGH comes with many undesirable side effects, reading your other post i was shocked by your first cycle. If you value your health at all forget HGH and do some research on diet/training and aas.


Scientific studies on athletes supplementing with HGH.




Aside from anecdotal evidence, some scientific studies display that HGH has little or no affect on athletes. One early study done in 1988 tested eight athletes for six weeks and showed that body fat decreased by a significant amount, however, muscle levels were not tested. In 1992, Kevin Yarasheski led a major study of athlete's performance done on 18 young men at the Washington University School of Medicine. Each man went through 12 weeks of resistance training. The muscles were measured at the end of the test, and all of the men had muscle gains.However, there were no differences in gained muscle size between the group who received the growth hormone, and the group who received the placebo. In 1995, Yarasheski headed another test on growth hormone. This time the strength of men was tested, but on a group of men averaging 67 years of age. The same results occurred with the older men; there were gains in muscle size and strength, but the group that actually received HGH did not have any better gains than those who did not use the hormone.
Another study of 18 healthy men with ages ranging from 65-82 years, went through 14 weeks of weight training before receiving HGH or a placebo.The group that received human growth hormone saw significant increases in lean body mass, and a loss of fat.However, this did not translate into better performance. The two groups' overall muscle size gains were the same, as tested by using needle biopsies. Even though the muscular gains were the same, the significantly greater decrease in fat by the group that used HGH could be seen as a great benefit of the hormone for many people.
So as you can see a benefit to some pro BBers pre contest perhaps, but really not a drug for your average BBer.