Sermorelin: The “Safer HGH” Has One Huge Problem
Dr. Alex Tatem — Sermorelin: The “Safer HGH” Has One Huge Problem
Channel: Dr. Alex Tatem · Our label: Clinician; paid clinician face of Superpower (disclosed) · Source: youtube.com/watch?v=Uw6Q5Lje9Qs
What this video covers
Alex here, and we’ve got to start this one with a calendar because the whole story of this molecule fits inside about 6 months of 1990. The New England Journal of Medicine publishes a study looking at 12 old men who got growth hormone over six months and their lean body mass went up almost 9% with their fat mass dropping down over 14%. Now again, we’re just talking 12 guys here with no blinding and no strength testing whatsoever. But that one paper basically invented the entire growth hormone-based arm of the anti-aging industry, which is a hell of a…
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Key points, in the speaker’s own framing
- And tucked in the back of it is a little line making it a five-year federal felony for a doctor to prescribe somebody growth hormone for any use the Secretary of Health and Human Services hadn’t personally signed off on.
- And then before the year was even out on December 28th, 1990, just 29 days after that law was signed, the FDA approved some moralin.
- And it’s the whole reason that this drug is legal, safer than natural growth hormone, and totally weaker.
- But Samorland actually gets to walk in the front door because it’s a component of a previously approved product, GIA, that the FDA certified as never being unsafe.
- Combounded drugs are not approved by the FDA and they don’t get FDA review for safety, effectiveness, or quality.
- But if you’re a healthy adult who wants better sleep and wants to try something that has actual FDA safety data behind it, simoral is one of the more defensible things in the whole peptide playbook.
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