Re: IGF-1 (was: Re: warrior diet)

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In a message dated 3/1/04 9:25:32 PM Eastern Standard Time,

johnny_tesla@... writes:

> I first heard of IGF-1 as an argument for how rBGH makes milk

> unhealthy: it makes the milk have higher levels of it, and supposedly

> it encourages the growth of tumors. But, since then, I've seen the

> amino acid stacking, HGH precursor advocates talk about elevating

> IGF-1 levels as being a good thing to do. So, what's the deal with

> IGF-1? Does it promote tumors or youth? Is it good or bad?

It's good, unless you get injected with a fatal dose of it. Fast-feast mice

had elevated IGF-1 and lower cancer, which supports a dissociation of the

supposed correlation in calorie-restricted mice of low IGF-1 and low cancer.

Chris