A Noted Physician

Determining Your Need: A Self-Test

The first step in designing a growth enhancement program is determining whether you are actually deficient in GH for your age. There are a number of simple tests you can perform on yourself that may indicate a deficiency of GH and can also tell you how well you are aging. The following signs and symptoms of GH deficiency are listed in An Introduction to Growth Hormone Deficiency in Adults by Bengtsson:

SYMPTOMS
Impaired psychological well-being and quality of life with:

poor general health increased anxiety

impaired self-control reduced energy

lack of positive well-being impaired emotional reaction

depressed mood increased social isolation

SIGNS

reduced lean body mass	reduced renal plasma flow
reduced extracellular fluid volume	reduced basal metabolic rate
reduced bone mineral density	reduced muscle bulk
increased body fat	reduced muscle strength
increased waist:hip ratio	reduced exercise performance
decreased HDL cholesterol	reduced anaerobic threshold
increased LDL cholesterol

ARE YOU A CANDIDATE FOR HORMONAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY?

The following self test is designed to help you determine whether your hormonal health is declining, and if you should seek to elevate your levels of HGH and other hormones, either with the Growth Hormone Enhancement Program, or with HGH injections.

If you answer yes, score the appropriate number. Today, as compared to 10 years ago:

1. Do you often feel tired?	+1	24. Do you often get colds or feel sick?	+2
2. Do you feel happy most of the time?	-2	25. Do you commonly feel aches or pains?	+1
3. Do you often go through mood swings?	+2	26. Is your blood cholesterol over 200?	+1
4. Do you anger easily?	+2	27. Is your blood cholesterol over 240?	+2
5. Are you depressed often?	+1	28. Men-is your HDL less than 45? Women-is your HDL less than 55?	+2
6. Do you often feel anxious or stressed out?	+1	29. Is your blood pressure normal?	-2
7. Do you feel you work too hard?	-2	30. Has your vision noticeable deteriorated?	+1
8. Do you look forward to retirement (not pursue an activity, but to do less?)	+2	31. Do you have frequent urination?	+1
9. Do you keep in touch with friends?	-1	32. Do you have digestive problems?	+1
10. Do you maintain an interest in sex?	-1	33. Does the skin on your face, neck upper arms, and abdomen appear to hang?	+2
11. Is your sex life declining?	+2	34. Do you think you look older than your age mates?	+1
12. Do you have trouble falling or staying asleep?	-2	35. Do you have cellulite on your thighs?	+1
13. Do you feel well rested after sleep?	-1	36. Do you need haircuts less frequently?	+1
14. Do you find yourself forgetting things?	+2	37. Does it seem to take a long time for cuts and bruises to heal, or for wounds to close?	+1
15. Do you find it harder to think clearly?	+2	38. Is it getting harder to exercise?	+2
16. Do you use memory aids (e.g. lists)?	+2	39. Do you seem to have less strength for gripping or lifting?	+2
17. Do you have problems concentrating?	+2	40. Is your endurance less?	+2
18. Are you in poor physical shape?	+2	41. Is your breathing more labored when you exercise hard?	+3
19. Are you more than 20% above your ideal weight?	+2	42. Do you find the longer you live, the better you feel about life?	-2
20. Is it very difficult for you to lose weight?	+1	43. Are you 45 to 54?	+1
21. Have you developed a spare tire or love handles?	+1	44. Are you 55 to 64?	+2
22. Does your musculature look youthful?	-2	45. Are you 65or above?	+3
23. Do you feel your overall health is good?	-2

Scoring:

14 and below:
You are doing well and your complaints are well within normal range of daily living.

15-22:
The Growth Hormone Enhancement Program may help forestall some of the problems of aging.

23-30:
Hormone replacement therapy with HGH or the Growth Hormone Enhancement Program may reverse the problems of aging you are already encountering. Schedule a visit to your doctor and have your IGF-1 levels checked.

31 and above:
Run, do not walk, to an anti-aging physician (but not so fast that you fall and break a hip or get a heart attack). Chances are your levels of growth hormone are severely deficient. Hormonal replacement therapy, including HGH may be of great benefit.

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