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Okay, growth hormone is impressive, no doubt about it. Here are some of the things that carefully conducted medical studies-most of them conducted in the six years since Dr. Daniel Rudman opened Pandora's box-have shown it can do:

● Increases muscle

● Decreases fat

● Increases skin thickness

● Smoothes out skin wrinkles

● Improves exercise tolerance

● Reverses heart failure

● Improves pulmonary function in people with chronic lung disorders

● Increases restorative REM sleep

● Increases energy and endurance

● Protects mental function and appears to help in the treatment of neurological and mental disorders such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, and multiple sclerosis

● Enhances mental alertness and memory

● Increases the size of the thymus, the body's principal immune system gland

● Increases natural killer cell lymphocyte activity, a measure of immune system function

● Greatly increases longevity in animal studies

● Causes weight gain in frail elderly

● Causes some regrowth and regeneration of organs (liver, kidneys, and spleen) that have shrunk with age

● Normalizes serum cholesterol levels

● Causes hair and nails to improve in strength and appearance

● Speeds healing after surgery and trauma

● Greatly improves the quality of life in AIDS patients

These are the effects of this natural hormone given to people at doses calculated to replace age-related deficiency and maintain the body's supply at levels normally present during young adulthood. The quantities used are extraordinarily minute. A year's supply of growth hormone in concentrated form would be smaller than an average vitamin C tablet.

Growth hormone may not be as explosive as enriched uranium, but its potency within the human body is, I dare say, fully appropriate to the nuclear age