Sunday, April 23, 2006
Aging In The 21st Century...with Steroids?
60 Minutes fascinated me throughout the whole, well, 60 minutes tonight. Especially pertinent to the HRH Program was a the segment on trying to age well with Human Growth Hormone, or HGH. You can read the transcript here: Human Growth Hormone 60 Minutes Segment.
I don't recommend taking HGH in any way--unless, that is, your doctor specifically recommends it based on hormonal testing. (As always, trust your doctor more than this blog or site!) The same goes for other steroids. If it would get you banned from baseball, don't take it. (You never know, you could still make the majors!)
There were a couple of points that struck me. First, the main promoter of taking steroidal supplements in the piece pointed out some very good facts about our health care system. Mainly, he noted that we do disease very well. But we don't know too much about promoting general health. Doctors just don't get paid for making healthy people healthier. In other words, it's more appropriate to call our health care system a disease care system.
The second important part of the segment, to me, was listening to the patients who are signing up for the treatments. They know very well that any latent cancers would probably get worse with the HGH. But they are signing up for feeling good until they get the cancer.
Do we really need to make that choice? I don't think so. That's even more so since I discovered the values of the HRH Program. It seems to me that we can feel good while getting healthy without the dangerous side effects of steroids. But most of us just don't know it yet. I hope that the HRH Program, along with any other that makes us feel better without "killing ourselves" to do so will take off. But it's going to require a lot of re-programming. We need to know that getting healthy isn't something that's painful or unattainable by the average person.
It would have been nice for 60 Minutes to go ahead and ask if this was possible. Of course, they might have needed a few more minutes. All in all, a great show tonight. I'm glad I watched. Digg This!
I don't recommend taking HGH in any way--unless, that is, your doctor specifically recommends it based on hormonal testing. (As always, trust your doctor more than this blog or site!) The same goes for other steroids. If it would get you banned from baseball, don't take it. (You never know, you could still make the majors!)
There were a couple of points that struck me. First, the main promoter of taking steroidal supplements in the piece pointed out some very good facts about our health care system. Mainly, he noted that we do disease very well. But we don't know too much about promoting general health. Doctors just don't get paid for making healthy people healthier. In other words, it's more appropriate to call our health care system a disease care system.
The second important part of the segment, to me, was listening to the patients who are signing up for the treatments. They know very well that any latent cancers would probably get worse with the HGH. But they are signing up for feeling good until they get the cancer.
Do we really need to make that choice? I don't think so. That's even more so since I discovered the values of the HRH Program. It seems to me that we can feel good while getting healthy without the dangerous side effects of steroids. But most of us just don't know it yet. I hope that the HRH Program, along with any other that makes us feel better without "killing ourselves" to do so will take off. But it's going to require a lot of re-programming. We need to know that getting healthy isn't something that's painful or unattainable by the average person.
It would have been nice for 60 Minutes to go ahead and ask if this was possible. Of course, they might have needed a few more minutes. All in all, a great show tonight. I'm glad I watched. Digg This!
