Taking a growth hormone releasing hormone peptide may increase the risk of tumor growth and cancer. — Whalespan
Taking a growth hormone releasing hormone peptide may increase the risk of tumor growth and cancer.
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“anytime we augment growth hormone either by taking growth hormone directly as a synthetic compound or by taking a peptide that increases the amount of growth hormone that we release we are increasing our tumor growth risk and our cancer risk and that's because growth hormone and igf-1 are somewhat indiscriminent in terms of the tissues that they promote the growth of so if you have a tumor someplace and small taking exogenous growth hormone or increasing the amount of growth hormone that you release by taking one of these peptides that we discussed will increase the size of that tumor”
“So you look at a type 1 diabetic, they have very high incidencies of various types of cancer. They have very high growth hormone but low IGF-1 paradoxically. So they would likely give you a similar cancer risk to a type 1 diabetic that has very high uh growth hormone.”
“Tumor growth and cancer. So you look at a type 1 diabetic, they have very high incidencies of various types of cancer. They have very high growth hormone but low IGF-1 paradoxically. So they would likely give you a similar cancer risk to a type 1 diabetic that has very high uh growth hormone.”
“And um and I do worry about tickling the growth hormone pathway too much or too long because of, >> you know, I don't you know, hopefully I don't have any tumors sitting around, but if I do, I don't want to vascularize them or grow them, >> right?”