Rhonda Patrick· PhD
Instead of being anabolic to contractile muscle, as conventionally thought, growth hormone increases collagen synthesis.
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Instead of being anabolic to contractile muscle, as conventionally thought, growth hormone increases collagen synthesis.
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And so, where the growth hormone comes in, this is my own personal theory, is it stimulates collagenous synthesis, and so the tendons become stronger too. And laced throughout your muscle are collagenous proteins. So that's where growth hormone is beneficial.
especially from abuse of course that that the growth hormone has a um in combination with for example anabolic steroids can help you with the connective tissue protein synthesis and stuff like that