Growth hormone, GH releasers, protein requirements

Question
QUESTION: hi im wondering if you can help me im 24 gym regularly very involved in strength training what should I be doing interm of nutrition to improve my perfomance and strength also can you give me your opinion on supplementing on stuff like l-arginine or a combination of l-arginine and l-ornithine is it beneficial to men what about the protein requirements of someone whose involved in strength training any pointers will be appreciated I must mention though that I have been diagnosed with recurrent panic attacks and have been on a mild dose of escitalopram 5 mg which is a very low dose ive been on this drug for 2 years will it affect my performance?

ANSWER: Hello,

To answer your question, let me make it clear that the commercial doses of amino acids including arginine and ornithine are way below established effective doses please read the article by fitness expert Christian Finn "Do human growth hormone supplements work?" at http://atkinszone-faq.blogspot.com/2008/08/do-human-growth-hormone-supplements.h

As to the protein needs, please read:

Protein need numbers by John M. Berardi
http://atkinszone-faq.blogspot.com/2008/09/protein-need.html

If you would like to know more about growth hormone releasers, their doses and effects, you might want to take a look at: http://agelessbrain.com/2011/02/growth-hormone-and-its-releasers-a-hope-for-alzh

Tanya Zilberter


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QUESTION: Thanks for the infomation but the first article is pretty much half the article because they require you to subscribe to view the entire article besides growth hormone and other stuff does l-arginine or the combination l-arginine/l-ornithine have a beneficial to the body as whole nitric oxide wise etc? and is there a bad side to it aswell? i mean in your expert opinion what should I be doing to increase my energy and perfomance? what about testosterone levels ?

Answer
Sorry I didn't realize about the first article. However, I wrote about GH releasers in http://agelessbrain.com/2011/02/growth-hormone-and-its-releasers-a-hope-for-alzh - though it is not about performance, the amino acid's effects on GH still the same. As to , the dose 20 mg/day reported to cause fatigue, I'm not aware of 5 mg - how it can influence performance. Do you feel fatigued?

Now, in my opinion and partly as a result of our research into energy substrates, I would recommend you to try pyruvate. I know quite a few people benefitted from its intake:


http://www.netrition.com/cgi/goto.cgi?aid=2747&url=pyruvate_page.html

TZ

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