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This looks fishy. What's wrong with this "clinical tria

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I don't have to read all that to shout out "BULLSHIT" in a very high and annoying tone.

The use of growth hormones as anti-ageing treatments is generally frowned upon in the scientific community, plus they are not perfect since ageing is a problem at the genetic level. Oil of Olay and all those Body Shop brands only help you look somewhat younger on the skin, inside you still age and not even plastic surgery can help.

Gene therapy is the key, but it isn't easy and I wouldn't be a subject of such techniques now even if they paid me.
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I saw the site and decided it was not worth exposing my mind to such crap.
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Oh, great another miracle product! :roll:

They performed tests on 94 persons. 94? What the... And where are the placebos? Imagine, trying to find a AIDS vaccine with only 94 test subjects.
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This data was carried out with 94 male and female volunteers to evaluate quantitatively that the secretion of HGH following stimulation by an oral anti-aging product to increase the IGF-1 levels resulted in showing that an oral administration can provoke a release of pituitary somatotropin. This phenomenon was reproducible and the growth hormone secreted in response to this stimulation had biological activity.
Well, no shit! People swallowed a pill containing a chemical that increases hormone production, and hey, the results shown they have an increased hormonal production! Incredible! What a great day for science! [/sarcasm mode]
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Far too small trial base.

Flawed assumptions as to what was actually the cause of any change in the persons body aging.

Biggest one, the trial ran for how long? Certainly not long enough for them to determine that this shit has any effect.
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