Elizabeth Yurth, M.D.

So kind of top of the list, if you're looking at things that are going to keep your body functioning well as you age, you're going to be looking at the growth hormone secretogox.

Now, how are those different from growth hormone?

Because you hear all these people taking growth hormone, right?

And growth hormone is wonderful.

The problem with growth hormone is it kind of hits these very, what we call super physiologic, higher levels than your body would ever make, right?

And it does that because you kind of need that to signal.

But the

That isn't so good for your body.

Our bodies are not designed to have these sustained high levels of things all the time.

So if you look at things like growth hormone, it's designed to kind of go up and down throughout the day and some days more than others.

So basically using what we call growth hormone secretagogues, which are natural peptides that are both increase your pituitary making more growth hormone and then stepping on the gas, increasing your ability to release more.

By doing that, you get much more physiologic cycling.

The body's going to respond appropriately at the right times as opposed to just keeping it high all the time.

So we use things like CJC or tesamorelin.

Those are what are called growth hormone-releasing hormones.

They tell your pituitary to make more hormone.

And then we can use things like ipamorelin, which is a growth hormone-releasing peptide, and that's like stepping on the gas.

So think of these as fill up the tank, step on the gas.

But if the body's designed, again, for the pituitary to kind of

still do what it wants to do.