Understanding Growth Hormone: New Discoveries to Help Very Short Children...Are They Also a Fountain of Youth? - Hardcover

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This pioneering work brings the latest information on the near-miraculous results of recent experiments which hold new hope for parents of children in need of help. The authors also explain discoveries that may actually reverse the aging process.
The book, written for the layman in an informative and entertaining way, takes the reader through the field of hormone study in a fascinating medical journey of discovery and revelation. It includes case studies of hormone deficiencies and excesses, including cretinism and gigantism, among other afflictions, and helps concerned parents understand conditions already present in their very short and very tall children.
Considerable public attention focused recently on experiments with men over sixty-one in which the drug seemed to reverse muscle shrinkage and the accumulation of the fat of old age. The authors deal thoroughly with future prospects for growth hormone as a "Fountain of Youth" - the possible hazards as well as benefits of new medical products.

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