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10/26/09
Today, there is no doubt that growth hormone is a drug which can change lives for the better. Men and women alike are using small doses of GH to restore their natural youth and keep their testosterone and estrogen levels in ideal ranges as age attempts to lower these levels. A very small dose of 1 to 3 IU per day is more than adequate, when used in a long-term basis, to change many of the body’s functions. People from all walks of life (and income levels) are discovering growth hormone for small injury repair as well as major changes to quality of life in the permanent sense. It’s certainly here to stay.
It wasn’t always this way, however. Growth hormone is a technology that is still in its infancy. It was only 30 years ago that companies started toying with the idea of siphoning hormones from the brains of dead animals and using it on the bodies of those living in order to facilitate more efficient bodily function. Today, GH can be picked up from any pharmacy with a doctor’s prescription and is of the much more powerful synthetic variety.
Many of today’s GH users administer their growth hormone using a standard subcutaneous injection. This leaves the GH directly below the skin, ready to take the bloodstream path to various avenues of absorption throughout the body. However, emerging research is beginning to show there may be greater benefit derived from injecting growth hormone directly into the muscle, or using an intramuscular injection. This is the same injection technique commonly used for standard AAS use, including testosterone. However, if the goal is to achieve the highest possible peak in GH concentration in the bloodstream – for longer- than intramuscular injections might be the way to go. Users record faster and higher peak concentrations with the intramuscular injection variety than with the subcutaneous kind. For users accustomed to reading instructions on required subcutaneous injections for GH, this might open up a few eyes.
This kind of injection does not come without its own set of hazards, however. Injecting into the skin is fairly safe. Shooting growth hormone into the muscle itself can lead to some fairly sticky situations. Infections, abscesses, and nicked arteries are all risks that arise when needles break muscle. Additionally, since GH arrives every day, you’re going to be facing a lot of needle injections in your body. Daily intramuscular injections of growth hormone should only be conducted by users with a great deal of experience with anabolic steroids and injections in particular.
Remember that the rules of any drug’s use, including growth hormone, are going to be a bit different for bodybuilders than they will be for everyone else. The heavily muscled body can take much more of a pounding than that of the untrained individual, and will therefore need more nutrients as a result. GH can be your primary agent for making major muscle gains while shedding body fat – or it can be a simple tool added to your heavy steroid stack and used in a post-cycle therapeutic capacity, if preferred.
