GROWTH HORMONE: The ULTIMATE Guide (Uses, Dosages, Biggest Mistakes) — Transcript

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1. 0:02[Music]
2. 0:23dave palumbo here with an rx muscle
3. 0:26supplement and science review
4. 0:28today's topic is going to be growth
5. 0:30hormone this is a
6. 0:32drug i get multiple questions about
7. 0:34every single day for multiple people
8. 0:38people are confused by it people think
9. 0:39um gh is actually a
10. 0:42stronger anabolic steroid and
11. 0:44really if we want to really
12. 0:46differentiate you know anabolic steroids
13. 0:48are steroidal compounds you know they're
14. 0:50they have a steroidal backbone they're
15. 0:52related to testosterone
16. 0:54whereas growth hormone is a peptide
17. 0:56hormone it's made from protein
18. 0:59and it has no
19. 1:01masculinizing effects it's produced in
20. 1:02the pituitary gland
21. 1:04the pituitary gland releases it
22. 1:06naturally as we're growing obviously we
23. 1:08produce a lot more growth hormone and
24. 1:10what growth hormone does it doesn't
25. 1:11really have a direct
26. 1:13growing effect or muscle building effect
27. 1:16what it does is it indirectly stimulates
28. 1:18the liver to produce a hormone known as
29. 1:20igf-1 or insulin growth factor or
30. 1:23insulin-like growth factor one which
31. 1:27will cause muscle hyperplasia which is
32. 1:29the production of new muscle cells
33. 1:31uh it will also you know help the long
34. 1:34bones to elongate and get bigger you
35. 1:36know assuming you're in your growth
36. 1:37years you know once you're
37. 1:39once your
38. 1:40i guess
39. 1:41bone plates are closed you're not going
40. 1:43to get any more long bone growth which
41. 1:45means you're not going to grow in height
42. 1:47but muscle cells can grow and obviously
43. 1:49when you when you break down muscle
44. 1:50tissue in the gym it's going to help
45. 1:51with recovery and so we bodybuilders
46. 1:54love to take growth hormone but if you
47. 1:56took growth hormone alone and didn't
48. 1:58take any other you know anabolic drugs
49. 2:00with that you probably would be greatly
50. 2:02disappointed in in the results you get
51. 2:05from it because gh is not a big muscle
52. 2:08builder it produces new muscle cells but
53. 2:10it doesn't make the existing cells get
54. 2:12larger
55. 2:13like steroids do anabolic steroids
56. 2:15actually take your existing muscle cells
57. 2:17and make them bigger
58. 2:19especially if you break them down in the
59. 2:21gym and subject them to you know the
60. 2:23stresses of you know training
61. 2:26so
62. 2:26gh has a better effect when it's used
63. 2:29synergistically with anabolic steroids
64. 2:32and we've noticed that over the years
65. 2:34that when you combine steroids
66. 2:36and gh you get a better effect and
67. 2:40that's because the steroids are making
68. 2:42your cells get bigger but the gh is
69. 2:44producing new muscle tissue it's
70. 2:45basically taking what we used to call
71. 2:47satellite cells now we call them stem
72. 2:48cells stem cells are just
73. 2:49undifferentiated cells that sit around
74. 2:53the muscle that you're training
75. 2:54and these cells have the potential to
76. 2:56turn into into the tissue that they're
77. 2:59near or related to so if you're breaking
78. 3:01down muscle tissue and you're taking gh
79. 3:03which is causing igf-1 release
80. 3:06some of those stem cells will turn into
81. 3:08new muscle cells
82. 3:09and add it to your existing cells you
83. 3:11wouldn't even notice the difference
84. 3:13because they're they're so small and now
85. 3:15when you train and work out and eat a
86. 3:17lot of protein
87. 3:18and take animals sorry those new cells
88. 3:20will get bigger so they they work
89. 3:22together that's really how it goes the
90. 3:24the questions though i have or i get are
91. 3:26number one how much should i take
92. 3:29when should i take it and do i need to
93. 3:30take insulin with it those are
94. 3:32invariably the three most common
95. 3:34questions and they're good questions you
96. 3:35know
97. 3:36how much
98. 3:37you can't look at what a child would
99. 3:39take you know you know who's trying to
100. 3:41grow in height that's not the right
101. 3:43dosage to look at because
102. 3:45the dosage needed to make the long bones
103. 3:47grow is a lot higher than the dosage
104. 3:49required to
105. 3:51increase muscle mass so it's a different
106. 3:53dosage and i think a lot of people make
107. 3:55mistake they go in and they look up
108. 3:56online what kids take you know to grow
109. 3:58and they say oh they're taking all these
110. 3:59they're taking you know 30 ius a week i
111. 4:02got to do the same thing but that's not
112. 4:03necessarily uh or it's you know based on
113. 4:06you know weight too
114. 4:08so if when they extrapolate that could
115. 4:09be like 50 60 i use a week you know that
116. 4:12an adult would take but that's just not
117. 4:14the right way to figure it out
118. 4:16we've figured it out over the years you
119. 4:17know we've been doing gh has been around
120. 4:18for a long time now so
121. 4:20the ideal dosage is usually
122. 4:23for women it's anywhere from one to two
123. 4:25ius per day and and and people would say
124. 4:29well why can't women take more gh well
125. 4:31you know
126. 4:32gh doesn't cause masculinizing side
127. 4:34effects because it's not it's not a
128. 4:35steroidal compound
129. 4:37but it does make the facial bones grow
130. 4:40you know the ears and the nose
131. 4:42you can get some growth from that and in
132. 4:44a man you know it might make him look a
133. 4:45little tougher and a woman probably not
134. 4:48gonna do
135. 4:50what she wants it to do to her face it
136. 4:52could make her face a little thicker
137. 4:53looking and a lot of women don't want
138. 4:55that look and it's not attractive
139. 4:56obviously so you don't want to overdo
140. 4:58the
141. 4:59growth hormone as a woman like i said
142. 5:01one to two i use per day is is good i i
143. 5:03see a lot of clients of mine using about
144. 5:05a gram of 1.5 iu's per day that seems to
145. 5:09be a nice sweet spot right there and
146. 5:11that and the good thing about that it
147. 5:12doesn't really cause too much insulin
148. 5:13resistance so
149. 5:14you could take that gh and it's not
150. 5:16going to affect your blood sugars now
151. 5:17men are going to want to use a little
152. 5:19bit more the the lowest effective dose
153. 5:22where you're going to actually get
154. 5:23growth
155. 5:24and you're really not gonna have many
156. 5:25side effects is two i use per day and
157. 5:28we used to take that back in the 90s
158. 5:30because the gh was so expensive and you
159. 5:32just couldn't afford to take more than
160. 5:34that and everyone got good results from
161. 5:36it so two i use is effective and it's
162. 5:39and gh is more effective if you take it
163. 5:41every day for longer periods of time as
164. 5:43opposed to doing short cycles of a lot
165. 5:45of it you know
166. 5:46and and that's just been proven you know
167. 5:48when you take too much you just get more
168. 5:50side effects you really don't get more
169. 5:51growth so the idea of being on it
170. 5:54continuously is a much more appealing
171. 5:57way to do it because you're going to get
172. 5:58better results also you got to remember
173. 6:00that when you take a shot of exogenous
174. 6:02growth hormone
175. 6:03okay the liver can only respond and
176. 6:06produce so much igf-1 in response to the
177. 6:08growth hormone injection so if you take
178. 6:1030 ius in one shot of gh your liver is
179. 6:14probably not going to produce any more
180. 6:16igf-1 than it would if you took say five
181. 6:18or six ius and so
182. 6:21you have to take that into account that
183. 6:22there's a waste factor and then what
184. 6:24you're just doing is making yourself
185. 6:26more insulin resistant more water
186. 6:27attentive you know more pins and needles
187. 6:30in your fingers and you just keep
188. 6:31creating more side effects and that's
189. 6:32the case with any drug i mean people
190. 6:34people like to od on on everything right
191. 6:37i mean if you if you take you know a
192. 6:39thousand or three thousand milligrams of
193. 6:40vitamin c a day you feel good if you
194. 6:42take ten thousand or twenty thousand you
195. 6:44might have a stomach ulcer okay so
196. 6:46there's a diminishing returns so i found
197. 6:49that the ideal dosage is about two to
198. 6:51five ius per day of gh
199. 6:54with probably four ius being the sweet
200. 6:56spot meaning that you get the best
201. 6:57benefits with the least side effects
202. 6:59because once you start going over four
203. 7:00ius per day you might get a little more
204. 7:03growth but you also get a lot more side
205. 7:04effects and what are some of these side
206. 7:06effects you know fluid retention
207. 7:07obviously
208. 7:08pins and needles in the hands they kind
209. 7:10of fall asleep during the day
210. 7:12um
211. 7:12you know blood pressure can go up if
212. 7:14obviously you're retaining a lot of
213. 7:15fluid from the gh which a lot of people
214. 7:17do
215. 7:19and that's not good but probably the
216. 7:20most
217. 7:21maybe harmful long term is is the fact
218. 7:23that
219. 7:24the more growth hormone you put into
220. 7:25your bloodstream
221. 7:27and gh can have an antagonistic effect
222. 7:29to insulin meaning that insulin can't do
223. 7:31its job insulin's job is to take the
224. 7:33sugar in the blood and push it into the
225. 7:35cells whether the muscle cells the liver
226. 7:38cells the brain cells
227. 7:40or the fat cells to produce stores fat
228. 7:43that's its job but if it can't get to
229. 7:44the receptor because there's too much gh
230. 7:47which is antagonizing the effects of
231. 7:49insulin which means it's blocking in a
232. 7:51sense to a certain degree your body has
233. 7:53to then produce more insulin and what
234. 7:55that does is it puts a tremendous strain
235. 7:57on the pancreas and if you're already
236. 7:59eating an enormous amount of food as a
237. 8:01bodybuilder especially in the off-season
238. 8:03and now you're creating more of a demand
239. 8:05for your pancreas to produce insulin
240. 8:07what can happen is the beta cells which
241. 8:08produce insulin in the pancreas can burn
242. 8:10out and that that's not something you
243. 8:12want to happen because
244. 8:13then they don't work right and then you
245. 8:14don't absorb your food and then you run
246. 8:16high blood sugars and you get side
247. 8:17effects from high blood sugars like eye
248. 8:19damage kidney damage extremity damage
249. 8:22the blood vessels get gunked up with
250. 8:23this glucose that's in the
251. 8:27excessive amount of glucose it's in the
252. 8:28bloodstream we don't want to do that so
253. 8:30we have to be smart so like i said three
254. 8:33to four i use gh probably the sweet spot
255. 8:35for i use being sweet but i usually use
256. 8:37four eye user guys in the off season
257. 8:38three i use pre-conference plus it makes
258. 8:41it a little more affordable too because
259. 8:42the stuff is expensive if you get real
260. 8:44gh that is i mean if you're buying fake
261. 8:46gh and you're getting a good deal on it
262. 8:48then you're really not getting any
263. 8:49benefits out of it even though you're
264. 8:51not spending as much money so
265. 8:52um i do sell a growth hormone testing
266. 8:55kit on davepalumbo.com so you can test
267. 8:57your growth phone and see if it's real
268. 8:58because i would say 50 of the stuff
269. 9:00floating around out there is is fake and
270. 9:03don't don't believe or trust anything
271. 9:05anyone says like i had a test you tested
272. 9:07tested you're going to spend and invest
273. 9:09a couple thousand dollars in growth
274. 9:10hormone you could spend another 100
275. 9:11bucks and test the gh to make sure that
276. 9:13it it works because it's real and you
277. 9:16know and that's important but getting
278. 9:17back to the insulin question is do you
279. 9:19need insulin well
280. 9:20the question is what are your blood
281. 9:22sugars
282. 9:23a lot of people just knee-jerk start
283. 9:24doing things and they don't even know
284. 9:25what the data is you know so go to
285. 9:27walmart
286. 9:29if you don't live in the united states
287. 9:30and you don't have walmart you can find
288. 9:31a comparable store but walmart in the
289. 9:33united states sells blood testing kits
290. 9:35or blood glucometers for like nine bucks
291. 9:38maybe it's up to ten dollars now they're
292. 9:40really cheap and you gotta get the test
293. 9:42strips to go with that particular
294. 9:44glucose monitor and you can test your
295. 9:46blood sugar every morning and that's
296. 9:47called your fasting blood sugars before
297. 9:48you eat anything and fasting blood sugar
298. 9:51should be under 90. okay
299. 9:53i know if you go for blood blood work it
300. 9:55says that they need to be under 100 but
301. 9:56that's
302. 9:57that's like for people who
303. 9:59don't want to be super healthy okay you
304. 10:01want to be under 90 on a regular basis
305. 10:03and if you're running high blood sugars
306. 10:04that are in the 90s or even in the
307. 10:06hundreds which i see a lot of people on
308. 10:08a regular basis running
309. 10:10faster blood sugars 110 105 those are
310. 10:12those are too high
311. 10:14that means your body's not managing its
312. 10:15blood sugar properly and it could be
313. 10:17because you're on gh it could just be
314. 10:19that you're eating a lot of food and
315. 10:20your body can't keep up with the with
316. 10:22the insulin production
317. 10:23and there's two negatives because of
318. 10:24that number one you're not absorbing
319. 10:26your food properly okay which is gonna
320. 10:28inhibit growth in a sense
321. 10:30and i noticed that when i used to use gh
322. 10:31back in the day i couldn't gain any
323. 10:33weight i would be ripped i couldn't gain
324. 10:34weight and i realized that and i didn't
325. 10:36even we didn't have glucometers back
326. 10:37then
327. 10:38no one had only type 1 diabetics had
328. 10:40them and i didn't even know how to i
329. 10:41wouldn't even know what to do with them
330. 10:42to be honest with you but i did notice
331. 10:44that when i put in
332. 10:45some insulin into my protocol
333. 10:48i was i started gaining weight again i
334. 10:50didn't use a lot but i was using enough
335. 10:51to help my body absorb the food and i
336. 10:53was eating an enormous amount of food
337. 10:55back in the days had a very fast
338. 10:56metabolism nowadays we can quantify
339. 10:58what's going on get a blood sugar
340. 11:00monitor
341. 11:01and you basically just test your blood
342. 11:04sugar every morning and you know if your
343. 11:06blood sugar is in the right range
344. 11:09then you're good if you're under 90 if
345. 11:11you're not you're running 96 98
346. 11:14you might want to think about getting a
347. 11:17what we call a long acting or basal
348. 11:19insulin
349. 11:20these insulins are basically made
350. 11:23they're not like the insulin you think
351. 11:24of i take a shot off i don't eat i'm
352. 11:26going to go low blood sugar now these
353. 11:27are long-acting insulins that work in
354. 11:29the background what it basically does is
355. 11:31it takes the burden off your pancreas
356. 11:33off your beta cells having to produce so
357. 11:35much insulin during the day and it gives
358. 11:37them a rest in a sense so instead of you
359. 11:39and i'm just going to give you like a
360. 11:41fictitious number let's say your
361. 11:43pancreas produces 200 units of insulin a
362. 11:45day okay
363. 11:46and now you're taking growth hormone and
364. 11:48you're eating more food because you're
365. 11:50bulking up and now it needs to produce
366. 11:51300 but it's only really capable of
367. 11:53producing 200 maybe 250. so now there's
368. 11:5650 units it's short so now you're going
369. 11:58to start running high blood sugars now
370. 12:00if you take a long-acting insulin maybe
371. 12:0250 units
372. 12:03you know per day 25 in the morning 25 at
373. 12:06night i'm just giving you for instance
374. 12:08these are not real numbers
375. 12:09now you've
376. 12:11helped the pancreas
377. 12:13produce what it's missing
378. 12:14and so now it's going to still produce
379. 12:16it's 250 but now you it has 50 that
380. 12:18you've taken extra on top of that and
381. 12:21now it's now your blood sugars are back
382. 12:22to normal because the pancreas can
383. 12:24handle that load
384. 12:25and that's what that's what long acting
385. 12:27insulin is all about and i'm going to do
386. 12:28another video on insulin uh with my um
387. 12:31my insulin guru as i call it collette
388. 12:33nelson in the coming probably next week
389. 12:35we're going to do uh an updated insulin
390. 12:38video because there's a lot of new
391. 12:39insulins out that a lot of people don't
392. 12:40even know about so
393. 12:42right now i think that the best
394. 12:44long-acting insulin on the market and
395. 12:45she would probably agree with me is
396. 12:47toshiba
397. 12:48but it's also the most expensive and
398. 12:49hardest to get
399. 12:51so a lot of people use other insulins
400. 12:53like uh toujeho is very close to toshiba
401. 12:56atlantis but these insulins need to be
402. 12:59taken twice a day even though the
403. 13:00doctors will save their 24-hour insulins
404. 13:02they're really not so you need to take
405. 13:04them at night in the morning and
406. 13:06depending on you know your size and how
407. 13:09much you you you know how big you are
408. 13:11and how much you're eating that will
409. 13:13dictate how much insulin your body needs
410. 13:15and we're going to do a separate video
411. 13:16on insulin i'm not going to talk about
412. 13:17insulin but i will say that toshiba is a
413. 13:20true 24-hour insulin you can take it
414. 13:22once a day
415. 13:23and usually tell people to start out
416. 13:25with about 10 ius a day and just see how
417. 13:27your body does on that if your blood
418. 13:28sugars are still running high you up it
419. 13:30by like two hours a day until you kind
420. 13:32of get into that range where you get it
421. 13:33down under 90.
422. 13:35and this is once again just helping your
423. 13:37body it's not a performance enhancer you
424. 13:39although you might get some muscle
425. 13:41growth from it because now you're
426. 13:42restoring
427. 13:44your normal uh
428. 13:45blood sugar balance in your body because
429. 13:47you're actually absorbing all the all
430. 13:48the food you're eating so you will get a
431. 13:50little surge and possibly muscle growth
432. 13:52but it's not the insulin that's giving
433. 13:54you the growth it's the it's restoring
434. 13:56the insulin balance and remember the
435. 13:57more gh you take the more insulin you're
436. 14:00probably going to need to take as well
437. 14:01because to counteract it so you don't
438. 14:03want to take too much insulin where
439. 14:05you're putting too much of it so you
440. 14:06don't want to take too much growth
441. 14:07hormone we're going to put too much of a
442. 14:09strain on the body and you're going to
443. 14:10have to take too much insulin because
444. 14:12excessive insulin is not good either
445. 14:13because even though long-acting insulins
446. 14:15don't really result in fat gain like
447. 14:17short-acting ones do
448. 14:19you never want to have to take extra
449. 14:20insulin above and beyond what you're
450. 14:22doing so it's all about the right
451. 14:23balance so
452. 14:25if you're looking to put some muscle
453. 14:27size on you have the funds to do it and
454. 14:29you have a source of real growth hormone
455. 14:32ideally four ius per day is probably the
456. 14:34sweet spot um in an offseason scenario
457. 14:36probably two i use in the morning and
458. 14:38two i use maybe for six hours later now
459. 14:41why take it early in the morning because
460. 14:43your body doesn't naturally produce gh
461. 14:44in the morning so why would you do that
462. 14:46well
463. 14:47that's the exact reason why because your
464. 14:48body isn't producing it in the morning
465. 14:50it does produce it at night and it does
466. 14:52produce it after you train so you don't
467. 14:54want to take it those times because your
468. 14:55body's naturally releasing at those
469. 14:57times your body is the most catabolic in
470. 15:00the morning meaning you produce the most
471. 15:01catabolic hormones like cortisol in the
472. 15:03morning uh hours so if you can take some
473. 15:06growth hormone and counteract some of
474. 15:07that uh catabolicness or metabolism
475. 15:10that's going on in your body then you're
476. 15:12obviously going to get a better growth
477. 15:14effect another thing people don't
478. 15:15realize is that it doesn't matter what
479. 15:16you're eating or not eating when you
480. 15:18take your gh shot because you're not
481. 15:20trying to stimulate growth hormone
482. 15:21release
483. 15:22what you're trying to do is you're
484. 15:23actually taking the growth hormone so a
485. 15:25lot of people get confused
486. 15:27well gh is naturally released in your
487. 15:28body in a low carb environment so i
488. 15:30better not eat any carbs well
489. 15:33you're not trying to induce gh release
490. 15:35you're taking the growth hormone itself
491. 15:37so it doesn't really matter what you're
492. 15:38eating or not eating matter of fact when
493. 15:40you first take gh you do get a blood
494. 15:42sugar drop initially because when you
495. 15:44get that igf-1 release from the liver
496. 15:46that has an insulin-like effect and it
497. 15:48drives nutrients into the cells and that
498. 15:49can sometimes lower your blood sugar so
499. 15:51you got to be careful i always tell
500. 15:52people to take the growth hormone when
501. 15:54you're eating so take a shot eat your
502. 15:56breakfast you know don't take a shot and
503. 15:57then go do cardio first thing in the
504. 15:59morning do your cardio first then take
505. 16:01your shot and eat breakfast and that's a
506. 16:03smarter way to go
507. 16:05so there's a lot of you know there's a
508. 16:06lot of questions around insulin what's
509. 16:07the i mean around growth hormone what's
510. 16:09the best growth hormone well the best
511. 16:11growth hormone is real growth hormones
512. 16:13if you have a real growth hormone that's
513. 16:15truly dosed they're all the same because
514. 16:18gh is gh the same 191 amino acids
515. 16:21sequence
516. 16:22anything that's pharmaceutical obviously
517. 16:24is going to be better quality you know
518. 16:26but there are pharmaceutical fakes too
519. 16:28there's serrano makes serous dim there's
520. 16:30genentech makes neutrophin uh eli lilly
521. 16:33i believe still makes uh hemotrope and
522. 16:36then there's nordotropin over in europe
523. 16:38and gentropin and there's
524. 16:40there's a lot of different ones out
525. 16:42there and then you got your generics
526. 16:43that come from you know from china and
527. 16:45and some of them are good and some of
528. 16:47them are not but
529. 16:48test them
530. 16:49number one to make sure they're real but
531. 16:51even if they're real they could be under
532. 16:53dosed so
533. 16:54that's something you have to consider
534. 16:56but if you're getting a tremendous
535. 16:57tremendously cheap price on something
536. 16:59compared to what a pharmaceutical price
537. 17:01would be
538. 17:02you might want to opt for that as long
539. 17:04as it tests out but it's real however
540. 17:06the on the other side of the coin
541. 17:08you might want to stick with the
542. 17:09pharmaceutical grade and just use less
543. 17:11all right you know what it's a lot more
544. 17:12expensive but at least you know it's
545. 17:13real so two i use is really two i use i
546. 17:16can justify using two i use every day of
547. 17:18pharmaceutical gh because at least i
548. 17:20know i'm getting real growth hormone and
549. 17:22so i think if i was you know competing
550. 17:24and taking growth hormone in this day
551. 17:25and age i probably would go with the
552. 17:27pharmaceutical grade spend the extra
553. 17:28money but just use a little less of it
554. 17:31um because you could be taking chinese
555. 17:33gh to test positive for being real gh
556. 17:35but you know you might think you're
557. 17:37taking six i use and you might be taking
558. 17:38one eye you don't know so
559. 17:40i don't i don't like that i always like
560. 17:42to know everything you know i don't i
561. 17:44don't like to be in the dark about
562. 17:45what's going on because here you are
563. 17:47thinking you're taking a nice healthy gh
564. 17:49dose and you could be taking nothing so
565. 17:51it's something to think about hopefully
566. 17:53this video helped clarify a couple of
567. 17:55these questions and points once again i
568. 17:57get these on a daily basis for multiple
569. 17:58people so i felt it was important to put
570. 18:00out a video explaining exactly you know
571. 18:03how this growth hormone works
572. 18:05what the right dosage is and when the
573. 18:07right time to take it is i'm dave
574. 18:09palumbo with an rx muscle supplement and
575. 18:12science review