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CRITICS TAKE OUTRAGEOUS POSITION AGAINST ANTI-AGING MEDICAL
PROFESSIONALS DEMANDING CRIMINAL SANCTIONS AGAINST PHYSICIANS
PRACTICING GROWTH HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY

Urgent Information re: JAMA Oct 26, 2005 article: 'Provision or
Distribution of Growth Hormone for "Anti-Aging": Clinical and Legal
Issues'.

This week, JAMA published an article on the legality of growth hormone
treatment by physicians for growth hormone deficient patients. This
paper is replete with inaccurate and biased statements and basic
scientific errors in an apparent attempt to damage the Anti-Aging
medical profession and the physicians practicing good evidenced based
healthcare. The authors picked biased studies to bolster their
disinformation campaign, and even went so far as to intermingle
internet sales of homeopathic pseudo GH sprays, amino acids, and
sports nutritionals, in order to inflate their misleading claims for
an illegal diversion of GH by physicians and pharmacies, implying a
black market in GH for hormone replacement treatments by anti-aging
physicians where none exists.

We have assembled international scientific and legal teams to prepare
a response to JAMA as a letter to the editor, as well as press release
responses to this poor attempt at damaging the profession. No efforts
will be spared in defending the rights of our member physicians. It is
shocking that this paper ever passed peer review in such a prestigious
publication as JAMA. This article will now be used as a weapon by
those with an agenda to damage the rights of physicians to provide
high level care to their patients. We are also assembling a legal team
with the assistance of the insurance industry to protect physicians
against untoward prosecution by state medical boards and other
agencies and protect your right to practice advanced preventative
medicine for the benefit of your patients.

Recent media reports about the federal law concerning human growth
hormone (hGH) have created unnecessary sensationalism and confusion.
Any analysis of 21 U.S.C. § 333(e), the federal statute that
criminalizes the unlawful distribution of human growth hormone must
include discussion of its historical context and legislative intent.
The statute, passed as part of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988,
originally applied to anabolic steroids, not hGH. It was enacted at a
time when concerns over steroids in sports had reached national
consciousness (coincidentally, enacted the same year that Canadian
sprinter Ben Johnson tested positive for steroids), and was intended
to combat steroid trafficking to cheating athletes by coaches,
trainers and non physicians. When, in 1990, Congress took a more
aggressive approach to anabolic steroids by passing a new law (the
Anabolic Steroid Control Act of 1990) to elevate them to the status of
controlled substances, concerns over the use of hGH in sports resulted
in hGH being inserted to replace anabolic steroids in 21 U.S.C. § 333(e).

The focus of Congress in this area has always been to address
non-medical use – specifically, the sports-related use of hormonal
substances, particularly by elite athletes and teenagers. One of the
authors of this recent JAMA article, stated to United Press
International (UPI) in reference to the statute, "They basically put
in language that made it crystal clear that it is illegal to use
growth hormone as an anti-aging intervention".

This is a very odd statement, considering the fact that when the law
was written there were no anti-aging doctors or profession in
existence. In fact the profession did not even birth until 5 years
after it was first put in place in 1988. Such bias and clear agenda to
harm a large population of dedicated physicians should have no place
in a publication like JAMA.

As we understand applicable law, physicians may prescribe hGH to treat
diseases. At no time has Congress evinced any intent to restrict
ethical physicians from prescribing hGH to mature or elderly adults
for medical reasons within their sound judgment. Nothing in the
statute dictates to physicians how to diagnose the indications for
diseases which may be treated by hGH. Any inference that the statute
was intended to prohibit physicians from prescribing hGH for hormone
replacement purposes in GH-deficient adults is misplaced. Replacement
of GH in GH-deficient adults is a medical use of hGH authorized by the
FDA. Any implication that the statute was intended to target medical
hormone replacement by ethical doctors in the new and emerging field
of anti-aging medicine is incorrect and misleading. Medical science
writers should refrain from making biased or inflammatory statements.
Agenda-driven science is no science at all.

The Academy requests you immediately start to document any losses,
adverse patient communications, or disruption of your medical
practice, or practice income as a result of adverse publicity from the
JAMA article or associated press. We intend to take further action in
defense of our members practice rights.

A4M will stand with its members for the protection of health care
freedoms for physicians and patients seeking the benefit of legitimate
therapies for a longer and healthier life. You should share this
important information with colleagues and feel free to express your
views to JAMA as well as the appropriate agencies.

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week beginning of November. We will setting up a website of all
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[Weatherlite]

I'm no conspiracy theorist but I imagine there is an underlying fear by the authors and supporters of the anti-GH article that if Anti-Aging docs succeed in making their patients healthier there will be less disease hence less money for them! So many things in medical "science" these days are just there to treat symptoms and never actually make us healthy by treating the problem. I bet this is just one more way they are trying to keep that going.

[love_en]

I am a conspiracy theorist. Use of GH and testosterone at replacement doses reverses and/or prevents many chronic diseases. Ask yourselves, what is more profitable for the "healthcare" industry? A patient who ages gracefully or one who is kept alive with 10 different pills. In my case, the doctor was more than happy to prescribe dick pills and antidepressants when I was sick. But no testosterone for me. I am becoming a broken record on this, but the way conventional medicine defines and diagnoses hormonal deficiencies is bullshit. If they were truly interested in our health, the standard to define hypogonadism or GH deficiency would be anything that falls below the levels found in a healthy young man. Especially if there are sexual complaints or deviations from a healthy body composition. When that standard is applied, I think 25% of all the men in Hawaii would qualify for TRT. There's a lot of guys like me.

This article jogged my memory concerning an incident that happened here in Hawaii. An officer of the Honolulu Police Department was investigated and convicted for trafficking and consumption of GH. He was also a bodybuilder. At that time, the news reported that he was under investigation for AAS. I was surprised to find out that it was GH. He got 5 years and one hell of a fine for GH. That explains why doctors here will not do hormone replacement. It is all about intimidation.

GH and testosterone are the only drugs I know of that improves the health of the consumer if used prudently. Why is the AMA not going after SSRI antidepressants or NSAID's? Both of those classes of drugs are overprescribed and have nasty side effects that endanger the health of the patient. Tinfoil hat on: it is my belief that it is in the best interest of our government to have the male population frail and impotent. I doubt that all of these bastards in government know what they are actually prohibiting when calling for bans on steroids. Most of the gear that athletes are using is not available in pharmacies anyway. But the easiest thing to target is medical testosterone and GH.

[Sunkist]

Great stuff guys. Totally agree.

The FDA is in the pocket of big Pharma and most providers get far too much information from studies funded by big pharma. This IS about money, totally.
Write your congressman, I have. I got a smart assed answer back about protecting the health of the nation and no recognition for my credentials to comment on this. I was livid.

Andro should have gotten us awake. Putting pain doctors in jail for helping victims should have too. They want chronic pain treated with far more expensive stuff than the C standard meds.

Prevent disease and drugs do not get sold... point of fact.

[ciobl]

there is nothing that bothers me more than seeing science safeguarding motives distanced from the objectivity of prudent medical studies.

the administrator at meso very intelligently and informatively posted it breaking the news: [NEWS] Growth Hormone Illegal for Off-Label Anti-Aging Use

I was in disbelief when I read some comments about these doctors.

But I must tell you, there is nothing that perturbs me more than facing low morality individuals that far from being nobles and sublimes run like hienas in groups because they have money to pay for an unjust cause.

http://insidehighered.com/news/2005/06/21/suit

Bros, even though we constantly face somebody denying any progression we as humans are entitled to have, I must say I still feel in debt to all those others, close or not to me from whom I have received more than what I have given back to them.

Aside from the medical perspective, I mean those we don't even know but have contributed in more than one way through their labor and work to make our lifes easier. For that we should always be grateful.

while Jama used language in writing not appropiate for a medical purpose monograph, they wanted to highlight some instances of abuse on gh proliferation. such an agenda should not discredit other individuals that have created an organization open to gh deficient patients. this organization at the same time should not block any research whereas is for academic or for educational purposes because there is nothing like the social responsibility they, as an organization must have to respect every man's opinion, and never ever forget they operate under a democracy that can't be bought.
How passionately I detest those that think they can buy anything.

[love_en]

How passionately I detest those that think they can buy anything.

I also detest those who have sold out and do not give a damn about my health or the health of everyone else. Medicine today is so corrupted by money and politics. A vacuum has been created by the AMA's emphasis on reactive medicine. Which is why so much venom is directed at GH and T might as well be illegal. We are becoming a nation of sick and debilitated people. The AMA throws half-measures at the problem, while rubbing their hands together with greed. Hormone replacement is counter to their agenda.

[ciobl]

Originally Posted by love_en

I also detest those who have sold out and do not give a damn about my health or the health of everyone else. Medicine today is so corrupted by money and politics

I can't agree anymore with you on that.

Now, let's look at the thread that started it all with comments from well known bros: Prestigious Medical Journal states Growth Hormone Illegal for Anti-aging

Originally Posted by mranak

Minus one point for A4M in my book. That lawsuit is ridiculous.

I can't agree anymore with mranak. While we tend to favor A4M since they are advocates on our side, we can't forget they are a financial entity that must abide by ethics and conduct rules and must comprehend and adapt to any scrutiny from different critics since their institutional growth and power goes well beyond all of us.

Originally Posted by administrator

The frivolity of the lawsuit is as bad or worse than the JAMA article.

I can't agree anymore with the administrator. While the article could easily be identified as a mishap on behalf of Ama to support these doctors, prior to that article, two lawsuits were filed with A4M founders acting as the plaintiff.
From a business standpoint, why comments acompannied with criticism would have such an effect on you to escalate to unnecessary legal claim actions ?
In any business you must take chances and any judicial action it is not justified based on the loss of a prospect because of critical reviews from two doctors.

Originally Posted by administrator

AFter all, the lawsuit isn't about TRT and/or GH for anti-aging. Although I could be wrong, it appears to be about making millions formulating dietary supplements for a multi-level marketing company.

I see it as a low and degrading maneuver what A4M tried to accomplish by defending some supplements over their hormonal deficient patients.

[love_en]

This is why I am also critical of AntiAging practitioners. Many of them do not get to the point and treat hormonal issues directly. The focus of their practice centers around dietary supplements. If they focused on hormone replacement and took it to the level of an exact science without the mythology and witchcraft, A4M would be leaders in this field. There are at least 6 A4M practitioners in Hawaii. None of them are doctors I would want to deal with.

Originally Posted by administrator
AFter all, the lawsuit isn't about TRT and/or GH for anti-aging. Although I could be wrong, it appears to be about making millions formulating dietary supplements for a multi-level marketing company.

In my youth, I was a patient of this genre of supplement salesmen. They missed the fact my growth and development were not normal. What would have been most beneficial for me at that time, is testosterone and HCG. The best they offer me was soy protein. Something no male human should ever consume.

What would lend credibility to this organization, is if they conducted many scientifically rigorous clinical trials of hormone replacement. The medical establisment designs and conducts these trials with an agenda for failure. That is why the average physician never thinks about GH levels and testosterone is treated like a poison.