Dr. Abud Bakri
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There's concerns about, you know, cardiac growth, liver growth.
So there's all these things.
But also...
Growth hormone and the secretagogues have a negative effect on insulin sensitivity.
Right.
So people's A1Cs will usually jump.
Like the joke in the bodybuilding community is you have to get lean enough and healthy enough to be able to take growth hormone.
Growth hormone or the secretagogues?
Growth hormone more so.
It can make you insulin insensitive.
Yes, especially with more like tesamorelin, especially when combined with ipamorelin.
Tesamorelin is kind of a weaker GHRH.
Tesamorelin, especially when combined with ipamorelin.
Tesamorelin is FDA approved.
Ipamorelin is not.
The GHRH versus GHRP kind of in the weeds there.
But those two together can create a giant growth hormone response where your IGF-1 is in the 380s, 390s.
So that's quite high, like puberty levels of IGF-1.
And you're hungry all the time.
Yeah, yeah.