hgh doses for injury

[ifg4949]

There's very little information, either on this site or elsewhere, about what doses of HGH to take to heal an injury. I'm thinking in particular of ligament, tendon, and MCL injuries. Any recommendations?

 

[ifg4949]

Bump

 

[WeT.DoLPhiN]

Depending on what Hgh you actually run the IUs will be different. Hell, even with 2 IU a day you will be surprised how well you recover. I don't think you need to do bodybuilder dosages to receive the healing benefits. More money friendly and the benefits are always better with time.

2-3IU a day IMO

 

[harbonah]

I have a "friend" who cured a case of tendinitis with ghrp-2 cjc1295 w/o dac... might be cheaper then HGH and only took about 2-3 months.

 

[ifg4949]

Thanks guys for the replies.

 

[harbonah]

IGF-1 lr3 plus ghrp-2 cjc1295 would be an amazing healing stack..

 

[ifg4949]

A "friend" of mine has purchased cjc-1295 w/o dac, ghrp-2, and igf-1 lr3 to administer to his injured lab animal. He's running 100mcg each three times/day of the cjc-1295 and ghrp-2.

What would be a good dosage to run on the igf-1, for the objective of research-related injury recovery?

 

[Royd The Noyd]

Consider the injury...


Human Growth Hormone May Be Detrimental When Used to Accelerate Recovery From Acute Tendon-Bone Interface Injuries

John D. Kelly IV, MD


Orthopedics

July 2013 - Volume 36 ? Issue 7: 539-540
DOI: 10.3928/01477447-20130624-10
Baumgarten KM, Oliver HA, Foley J, Chen DG, Autenried P, Duan S, Heiser P. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2013; 95(9):783-789. doi: 10.2106/JBJS.L.00222.

A necdotal and conflicting experimental evidence exist regarding the role of human growth hormone in recovery from injury. The authors hypothesized that tendon-to-bone healing would be accelerated in rats after acute rotator cuff repair for those administered human growth hormone compared with control rats treated with a placebo. Mechanical testing was performed to verify the hypothesis.

Two protocols were used in the study. For Protocol 1, researchers repaired acute rotator cuff injuries in 72 rats before randomly assigning them to either the placebo or human growth hormone groups. Those placed in the human growth hormone group received 0.1, 1, 2, 5, and 10 mg/kg of human growth hormone administered subcutaneously once per day for 14 days.

For Protocol 2, twenty-four rats were randomly assigned to receive placebo or human growth hormone. Those placed in the human growth hormone group received 5 mg/kg of human growth hormone administered subcutaneously twice per day for 7 days preoperatively and 28 days postoperatively.

All rats were euthanized 28 days postoperatively to determine the ultimate stress, ultimate force, stiffness, energy to failure, and ultimate distension.

In Protocol 1, researchers found that the analysis of variance testing showed no significant difference between the groups with regard to ultimate stress, ultimate force, stiffness, energy to failure, or ultimate distension. However, in Protocol 2, ultimate force to failure was significantly worse in the human growth hormone group vs the placebo group. Compared with the placebo group, failure was also more likely to occur through the bone vs the tendon-bone interface in the human growth hormone group. The researchers found no significant differences for ultimate stress, ultimate force, stiffness, energy to failure, or ultimate distension between the groups in Protocol 2.

These data indicate that human growth hormone has no positive biomechanical effect and may be detrimental when used in the treatment of acute tendon-bone interface injuries in a rat model.

Daily subcutaneous human growth hormone treatment administered to rat models for 14 days after acute tendon-bone injury repair demonstrated no significant difference in any biomechanical parameter compared with placebo. Furthermore, the growth hormone demonstrated lower loads to ultimate failure and a higher risk of bone fracture failure compared with placebo when subcutaneously administered pre- and postoperatively.




Each month, this column summarizes a Level I article and provides a thought-provoking review on how the treatment in the article has either stood the test of time or serves as an example of how conventional wisdom has changed.

Review

John D. Kelly IV, MD

University of Pennsylvania

Human growth hormone has been used by athletes and clinicians alike as a means of accelerating recovery after injury. Firm scientific evidence for its efficacy in enhancing soft tissue repair is lacking. Growth hormone has an anabolic effect on muscle growth by increasing sarcomere amino acid and glucose uptake while it potentiates lipolysis. Indeed, many aging athletes regard it as the fountain of youth. Human growth hormone accelerates collagen synthesis; thus, the authors of the article ask a pertinent question about its effects on tendon-bone healing.

This fairly well-designed prospective study indicates that systemically administered human growth hormone confers no anabolic effect on rotator cuff repair and may prove deleterious to healing in higher dosing schedules. The rat model for rotator cuff disorders is well established and appears to correlate well to the human condition.

Although slightly underpowered, this investigation is another testament of failure in search of the ?Holy Grail? of cuff healing enhancement. The inconsistent results of platelet-rich plasma?with noted potential negative effects?mirror those of this study. Of note, the prolonged dosage group gained appreciable weight, raising the specter of adverse metabolic consequences with human growth hormone administration (ie, hyperglycemia). Weight gain and its accompanying metabolic syndrome is proinflammatory and is associated with increased cytokine production. Perhaps modulation of inflammation will prove to be the most effective means of enhancing soft tissue repair. Before I give my patients human growth hormone, which promotes hypertension, hyperglycemia, and acromegaly, I would much rather choose tight glucose control, smoking cessation, and vitamin D and omega 3 fatty acid supplementation to mitigate inflammation and enhance healing.

 

[ifg4949]

Thanks for the heads up. . .Does anyone have any recommendations for an ifg-1 dosage, considering the use of the other two peptides noted above?

 

[ifg4949]

Bump.