Monday, November 19, 2012

Novex Biotech Growth Factor-9 GF9 Serovital Not the Only Amino Acid that Increases Growth Hormone.


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There are lot's of options to increase growth hormone production. Serovital is an amino acid blend that has been all over the press lately but bodybuilder's have been maximizing there growth hormone production long before this blend was available. Others have mentioned that you want to look for an amino acid blend that contains GOAL (glycine, ornithine, arginine and lysine).


The benefits of higher growth hormone levels are as follows:

- Increases in Lean Body Mass
- Increases in Bone Density 
- Decreases in Adipose Tissue (Fat) Mass 
- Increases in Skin Thickness 

The below information was excerpted from Growth Hormone: Amino Acids as GH Secretagogues – A Review of the Literature.


Amino AcidsStudy Results
Intravenous OrnithineProduces a five-fold increase in serum growth hormone in humans.
OrnithineIncreased serum growth hormone in bodybuilders, up to four times the baseline level.
Arginine250 mg/kg/day of oral arginine aspartate given to five healthy subjects for seven days caused a 60% rise in GH during slow wave sleep compared to the control period.
Arginine and OrnithineIn a double-blind study, adult males participating in a 5-week progressive strength-training program who consumed 2 grams of L-arginine and 1 gram of L-ornithine experienced significantly higher total strength and lean body mass scores and excreted less urinary hydroxyproline than placebo-treated subjects.
Ornithine Alpha-ketoglutarate (OKG)Significantly increased IGF-1 and growth hormone levels in trauma patients. In healthy subject, OKG increased tissue levels of growth-hormone-releasing glutamine.
Arginine and lysine1200 milligrams of arginine pyroglutamate combined with L-lysine hydrochloride significantly elevated biologically active growth hormone from two to eight times the baseline value in 15 healthy male subjects aged 15 to 20 years old.
Arginine and lysine1,500 mg arginine and 1,500 mg lysine increased GH in young men only during resting conditions.
GlycineIn 19 normal, non-obese subjects, 6.75 grams of glycine increased growth hormone levels up to 300 to 400 percent that of baseline.
Glycine and L-arginineIncreased the subjects mean resistance to fatigue up to 28% over the controls during acute exhaustive high-intensity anaerobic isokinetic exercise and produced an overall gain in total muscle work of 10.5% more than controls.
Gamma Aminobutyric Acid (GABA)A single oral dose of 5 grams of GABA administered to 19 subjects significantly elevated plasma growth hormone levels compared to placebo-treated controls.
GlutamineTwo grams of oral glutamine resulted in elevated plasma growth hormone in 8 of 9 subjects tested.

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