GH And T— Anabolic Duo In a six-month randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial in 21 healthy men aged 65-75, subjects received growth hormone (GH) or testosterone (T). They discovered that serum IGF-1 levels increased significantly with GH and GH plus T, compared with placebo. Mid-thigh muscle mass and maximal oxygen capacity increased with GH plus T only. Thus, six-month treatment with low-dose GH alone or with T in healthy, elderly men produces comparable increments in whole-body protein turnover and protein synthesis.4 And in a very long-term study, 60 healthy but symptomatic, nonobese men were randomized to transdermal testosterone patches or placebo for 52 weeks. Relative to placebo, total-body FFM (fat-free mass) and skeletal muscle increased and thigh skeletal muscle loss was prevented with testosterone therapy and visceral fat accumulation decreased. There was a trend to increasing total and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol with placebo. So, taking T lessens visceral fat and puts on muscle mass
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