February 17th, 2010 · 5 Comments
hghtruths.com – I have been promising for months to do a post on how to make GHR Essentials a better hgh supplement.
Well here we go! (Finally)
To recap, GHR Essentials made by Swanson Vitamins is the best value hgh product that we have reviewed to date. It is not the best product we have reviewed to date, that honor still goes to Secretagogue Gold. However, GHR Essentials is a very inexpensive product that is better than all of those products recommended by the fake review sites that cost three to eight times the money.
First time readers should probably read the GHR Essentials HGH Review first and then come back.
Those of you following the GHR Essentials story should remember that it has a couple of good releaser ingredients but is to light in the amino acid department for any of the amino acids to be of much value as secretagogues.
The simple solution is to add in more amino acids. With 6 or 7 good ones to choose from what should we do?
We tried a few fancy stacked combinations and ended up going for a very simple solution using just one. Funny how the simplest answers is often the best.
The easiest, least hassle and easiest solution was to take more glycine.
Glycine is a naturally sweet amino acid so it should be easy for most people to take by mixing the powder in a little water. People who are really picky about the taste can try using a no sugar drink mix like Crystal Light for flavoring and the health food crowd might just add a dash of stevia. The important thing here is to use some water and no sugar or actual juice. Do nothing that will get the digestive system pumping. Straight up is the best way.
OK, dosage.
The dosage of glycine is dependent upon your dosage of GHR Essentials which can run from 3 capsules to 12 capsules depending on your weight and sensitivity. The capsule dosage for the combination program only runs from 3 to 6 capsules.
The best approach is to start with three capsules and see if you feel anything from it. Do this for a week.
If your answer is yes, proceed to add in glycine. If your answer is no, increase the capsule dosage by one each week until you either start to feel something or get to six. Then proceed to add in glycine.
There will always be a few people who get to six without noticing anything. Don’t freakout. Just add in the glycine.
Just like the capsules, the dosage of the amino acid varies. A three capsule person will be fine with taking 2.5 grams while a six capsule person should take 5 grams.
Yes, readers that is grams not milligrams or nanograms. The proper dosage of amino acids for growth hormone release is measured in grams and it takes a decent number of grams.
This explains why so many of the capsule products get so such low grades and why sprays that claim to contain amino acids are crap. Can you imagine trying to fit five grams of ingredients into six little sprays? Cannot be done.
Can you take glycine in capsule form? Yes but you are looking at taking 3 to 12 capsules and adding significantly to the cost. Powdered glycine is relatively inexpensive.
What brand of glycine should you use? Just get some from a reputable company that you trust. I had just a little bit around from Source Naturals around so I purchased some of Swanson’s private label brand. They also sell Now Foods that is even cheaper and you get twice as much but I have been doing a private test of the house label brands.
This is a very affordable program. It works out to about $13 per month for the 3 capsule person and $21 per month for the 6 capsule person. Rather inexpensive for a combination that as an individual product would get a solid B.
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If you happen to click on one of the Swanson banners and buy something from them, they might pay us a small commission on first time orders. That is if the internet stars are aligned properly.
We have to pay for the corporate jet somehow.

We might as well give this thing an official grade and add it to the Big List.
The GHR Essentials Combination receives an hgh review rating of a solid B. Maybe even a notch hire for the 3 capsule value conscious consumer.
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hghtruths.com – I am taking a small detour from the usual human growth hormone supplement reviews to do a review of a muscle building fitness course called the Visual Impact Muscle Building Course. I know from previous comments that we get a number of visitors who are fans of course creator Rusty Moore.
Visual Impact Muscle Building is a six month, three phase muscle building course designed to give you that hot Hollywood look. So if you are interested in being freakishly pumped, go back to the hgh product reviews. If you are interested in getting a hot, balanced, ripped physique………
The course has an initial focus on building muscle fast but it the right kind of lean, well distributed muscle mass. This is followed by a phase that focuses on hardening up the muscle and a third phase to build muscle density.
I am not doing a great job of explaining the program. I suggest you avoid my feeble attempt and just go look at the official site. The three videos that you get without having to buy anything are well worth the time you take visiting the site.
Yes, the site I am sending you to does sell an eBook for $47 which is less than the cost of a session with an average personal trainer.
Yes, we do get paid a commission if you buy through one of our links. Anyone who has looked at this site much knows that we don’t take recommending products lightly. This would be the first time we have strongly recommended a fitness program. The most we have ever done in the past is run a few random ads.
This is the first time I have seen a course this good.
Visual Impact Muscle Building Course
Rusty first released this program in beta back in January and there is nothing but positive responses from beta testers. A trainer friend of mine has adopted it to his sessions for the past two months and all his clients are thrilled with the results.
The only downside to the program is that it is mainly geared toward men. Women have to adapt the ideas to their own program. There is hope for women because Rusty is promising a future release written just for women.
While this is a great program for males of all ages, I think it is incredibly fabulous for the 35+ guys coming here looking for hgh supplements to use for anti aging purposes. Combine Visual Impact Muscle Building with a top rated hgh product and you should be approaching your young stud look within three months. If you have more fat to loss it might take six months but you will be feeling much better physically and energetically long before then.
I am not used to so strongly recommending a product and it is making writing a little strained. I am not used to sending people directly to a product site. Don’t expect me to ever directly recommend an hgh releaser website.
Visual Impact Muscle Building is in alignment with all the training principles I have believed in for over 30 years but I could never explain it anywhere near as good as Rusty does.
The four videos on the site are a good free resource from which the frugal among you could work to develop your own routine. So go take a look. The site won’t bite.
The full course is only $47 and there is no attempt made to sell some kind of deluxe course. One price includes everything. Rusty is a good guy and not some internet sales weasel. There is even a full 60 Days unconditional guarantee. Plenty of time to know if it works for you.
Interested in having the GQ Hollywood Look?
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May 3rd, 2010 · Comments Off
A brand new study published in the current issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine claims that use of hgh injections has been shown to increase the 100 meter sprint speed of athletes by 3.9%. Now we must caution that these were recreational athletes not fully trained competitive athletes.
Still the results are interesting. Most previous studies showed no proof that growth hormone increased athletic performance.
The group of athletes was only 96 in number so this is still a fairly small sampling with only about 15 males with an average age of 27.9 years getting the hgh shots. There was an equal sized group that received injections of both hgh and testosterone. The combined group had an increase of 8.9% showing that the testosterone – human growth hormone combination was the way to go.
The dosage of injectable hgh was 2 mg per day and the dosage of testosterone was 250 mg per week. The testing period was eight weeks.
The growth hormone also decreased fat mass and increased lean body mass. However, the lean mass increase was do to an increase in cellular water not increased muscle mass. So, once again, a study fails to show that hgh increases muscle mass or strength.
An additional finding was that after six weeks the gains disappeared.
The study was funded by the World Anti-Doping Agency that has a stake in there being a positive result.
It will be interesting to follow the public spin on this report. The scam hgh spray pushers will probably try to use selective quotes to push their crap.
Better than dead doctor endorsements.
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April 28th, 2010 · Comments Off
hghtruths.com – We have gotten lots of requests for a review of either Advanced HGH or HGH Advanced or some variation of this name. It is a little confusing because there are several products that have almost exactly the same name. We have already reviewed one, Renewal Advanced HGH.
Today we will do a reverse review of Advanced HGH Spray.
Advanced HGH spray receives an hgh supplement review rating of F.
This is a spray bottle of homeopathic hgh product. That means that it is crap for two reasons.
One it is a spray. Two it is homeopathic growth hormone.
We fully explain the problems with homeopathic human growth hormone in Horton Hears An HGH. However we will hit the high points here.
Advanced HGH Supplement Facts:
Human Growth Hormone 30X
Human Growth Hormone 100X
Human Growth Hormone 200X
IGF-1 (Insulin Growth Factor) 12C
Certified, mathematically provable nothing!
Quickly, the X represents dilution by a factor of 10 and C represents a dilution a factor of 100. This mathematically works out to a dilution roughly the equivalent of mixing one small vial with all the water on the planet to get to the level of 12C or 30X. What intelligent person could possibly argue that there is any growth hormone or IGF-1 in a bottle of this hgh oral spray?
Don’t even get me started on 100X or 200X!
For the long explaination — Homeopathic HGH
Nothing in the bottle but this from the website:
“How Is HGH plus IGF-1 Absorbed Into The Body?”
One of the major stumbling blocks in developing an effective HGH supplement is absorption. The molecules are too large to pass through the intestinal lining and is, therefore, wasted if swallowed.
One of the remarkable features of HGH plus IGF-1 is that its effectively absorbed if simply sprayed under the tongue.
Nothing in the bottle but they still find it necessary to lie about how hgh from the product is absorbed into the body.
There it is nothing you can do to an hgh molecule to make it orally absorbable. Only hgh injections get real growth hormone into the body.
You could look at it another way and say the marketers are being truthful. Water is very effectively absorbed in the mouth.
Is Advanced HGH Spray a scam?
Yes, unless you enjoy spending $39.95 for a tiny bottle of water.
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April 22nd, 2010 · Comments Off
hghtruths.com – Baseball commissioner Bud Selig finally has a science advisor examining the human growth hormone blood testing methods used by the Olympics and the World Anti Doping Agency. My question is why wait for some study to be finished. Why not just start testing now and try to keep people honest?
The Player Union is willing to consider blood testing but has made no firm commitment. What are they afraid of? Do they know how many players are using hgh?
The funny thing here is that there is no proof that growth hormone does anything to improve a younger players performance though there is a chance that it could be of benefit in helping the careers of aging stars like Manny Ramirez. Steroids seemed to do wonders for Sammy Sosa and Mark McGuire.
That was really the last time that baseball was very interesting. Maybe Chuck Schumer should hold some hearings on requiring the use of performance enhancing drugs is Major League Baseball. He has been strangely quiet on the subject since the last round of publicity.
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April 19th, 2010 · Comments Off
Somatosome HGH Spray by Maximum Nutrients is another spray bottle hgh product that claims to contain real human growth hormone though the label is rather deceptive. The spray bottle qualifies this supplement for one of our special for one of our special reverse reviews.
The hgh review rating for Somatosome HGH Spray by Maximum Nutrients is F.
As we can see from the ingredients, this is a nanogram scam product.
Supplement Facts:
HGH (Polypeptide Growth Factor Potentiator) 2000 nanograms
Excell Activator (GHrH) Consisting of Micro Molecular Polypeptide Complex 1000 nanograms
What a pile of BS. Selling real human growth hormone in a dietary supplement woul be a felony, so you can believe that here is not really any growth hormone in this bottle of water.
Any site that can recommend this stuff is obviously trying to steal your money. Don’t trust anything they say about ant product.
I would love to expand this post with some more words but I have nothing more to add.
If you don’t know what a nanogram is I suggest you read our post Have You Been Nano Scammed.
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hghtruths.com – Time for another lesson on how to review hgh products yourself. The first lesson covered the basics of how hgh spray products are crap. In this lesson we will do an initial examination as to what to look for on the label.
The first rule is that a website that is obviously selling their hgh supplement should actually show you the label. I am amazed at the number of these sites that make a big deal about how they have a label that meets all the GRAS rules for labeling and then don’t bother to show you the label. Why would following the basic rules for rules be such a big deal? 99.9% of all supplements sold follow the labeling rules. Why? Because it is the law!
Still there are many sites that make a big deal out of the label and don’t show you the label. I am not talking about the pretty front graphics design here. There are no rules about the pretty graphics. I am talking about the back of the label where the supplemental facts box is printed. Legitimate websites are going to show you the actual supplemental facts box or at the very least they will publish the exact information information from the supplemental facts box.
Don’t know what a supplemental facts box is? Pop over to Bodybuilding.com or Swanson Vitamins. Take a look at any supplement product and you will see that both sites show you the actual supplemental facts box. Notice the black lines and the actual box. There are actual rules about line size requirements and that you have a box.
Tough rules to follow.
To be fair, there are some other rules. One is that you have to list information on serving size and the ingredients per serving while clearly stating that these are the ingredients per serving. Still nothing hard to follow.
Now the label has to have a section that covers any ingredients that have an RDA or Recommended Dietary Allowance (Often referred to as Recommended Daily Allowance). The exact amount of each of these ingredients should be listed along with the percentage of the RDA that this amount represents. The ingredients should also be listed in the order of quantity in the product from greatest to least.
Still fairly simple.
Next there needs to be a section that lists all the ingredients that do not have an RDA. Sometimes this is a straight list of ingredients and sometimes it is divided into fancy name blends that each have a sub-listing of the actual ingredients. Whether in a straight list or in a blend, these ingredients are to be listed in order from greatest to least.
Maybe the tricky part is in the next step.
The final thing to do is to list the inactive ingredients from greatest to least. In the case of hgh sprays the top thing in this part of the list is water.
Now that was not very hard was it? Why make a big deal out of following the labeling recommendations? Why not show the actual label?
That should be fairly obvious. They don’t want you to have the actual information about what is in the product.
The hgh marketers want you to buy their low grade product based on marketing hype. They are not really looking for customers who are intelligent enough to not buy products because they cannot see a label. They want the suckers who think the lies on their website is true. These suckers have a much lower probability of returning the product for a refund.
The big rule you should follow is to never buy products from sites that do not show you the actual label. The exception to this would be a legitimate vitamin retailer that has their own system for showing you the supplemental facts. However, a vitamin retailer who does not do a good job of showing proper ingredient details should be avoided.
I am going to throw in another general rule that is not specifically related to the label issue.
You should never buy an hgh product from a site that is specifically set up to sell just that product or a small handful of products. The odds are greatly in favor of it being over priced crap. Generally, if an hgh product is any good it will be sold through legitimate online product retailers.
However, these online retailers also sell a lot of garbage products. They are in the business of selling what people want to buy. They are not in the business of worry about whether or not the growth hormone supplements are any good. There are a few exceptions to this statement. A handful of companies exist that only sell products from legitimate brands and screen out most of the crap. These honorable sites generally are not focused on the sports supplements business.
I probably should say more about the proprietary blends.
Manufacturers of many hgh supplements like to invent fancy names for those sections of ingredients that are “special” blends. Like the scientific sounding name actually makes the product special. Propreitary blends are a mistake that was part of the 1994 DSHEA Act. I believe that the regulators should do away with the whole concept of proprietary blends. People have a greater right to know exactly what the are taking than the companies do to protect their product from competition.
Proprietary blends only exist for marketing purposes. They really have nothing to do with whether a product is any good or works. Do you really think that a different product that has the same ingredients but in slightly different amounts will be significantly different in its effectiveness? Besides, lll it takes is a few hundred dollars worth of testing to get an exact blueprint of what is in a vitamin product.
We always lower the grade on products that use a proprietary blend and raise it for products that give all the ingredients.
I am saying that you should never buy a product that contains a proprietary blend. Just do it being fully informed of why proprietary blends exist.
You can sometimes combine the RDA and proprietary blend information to figure out what is in a product. That is if any of the RDA ingredients are included in one of the blends. Before I talk about that in detail, I will need to do posts on individual hgh releasers.
Here is an example of something else to avoid: 2-Amino-5-Guanidinopentanoic Acid-5 Oxo L-Proline, 2,6-Diaminohexanoic Acid.
You don’t want to avoid those ingredients because they are just Arginine Pyroglutamate and Lysine. What you want to avoid is any product that tries to BS you with the use of long chemical names rather than being honest and giving you the plain language version of the ingredients. There is no legally usable ingredient that can only be shown by its chemical name. This kind of BS is very common among scammy sports supplement companies.
Where does that leave us with our review lessons so far?
1) Hgh oral sprays are all garbage designed to scam you out of your cash.
2) It is no big deal to follow the labeling rules, most hgh products don’t give great details on their labels and avoid products that use chemical names rather than common names.
That should be a good start on labeling. I am not sure what the next lesson will be. I will probably need to start the series on the various hgh releasers and other ingredients so that you can make accurate judgements about the amount of ingredients in each product you want to self review.
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April 7th, 2010 · Comments Off
hghtruths.com – We have been promising to do review of Fountain of Youth HGH Complete for a long time. I have been procrastinating because it is difficult to review these products that use hgh in the name but are really not hgh releasers.
Fountain of Youth HGH Complete powder is really an hgh releaser that is no better than GHR Essentials combined with testosterone boosters. A strange facet of this product is that the capsules are supposed to contain a greater quantity of ingredients than the powder.
Fountain of Youth HGH Complete Capsules will be the subject of the next hghtruths.com hgh review.
Time for the ingredients dance.
Aminotropin™ Proprietary Amino Growth Complex: 2650 mg :
L-Glutamine, Ornithine, L-Arginine Pyroglutamate, L-Arginine HCl, L-Lysine, L-Taurine, Branch Chain Amino Acids (Isoleucine, Leucine, Valine)
Any way you do the math, this product does not contain enough of any one amino acid or amino acid combination to be much of an hgh releaser. So maybe there is something coming up?
Secretagen™ Proprietary Growth Enhancer/releaser Complex: 833 mg
Tribulus (Tribulus Terrestris) (Fruit Extract), GABA (Gamma-Amino Butyric Acid), Inulin, Aswagandha (Withaniasomnifera) (Root), Mucuna Pruriens (Bean Extract) [15%] L-Dopa, 7-Keto™ (3-Acetyl-70xo Dehydroepiandrosteone), DHEA (Dehydroepiandrosterone), OptiZinc®, MSM (Methylsulfonylmethane), Copper Citrate, Melatonin, ChromeMate®
The only hgh releasers in this list are GABA and Mucuna Pruiens. The highest possible amount of GABA in this product is less than a tenth of the amount that one would take for hgh release. There could easily be enough Mucuna to activate hgh release.
Antiox5™ Proprietary Antioxidant Complex: 205 mg
Alpha Lipoic Acid, Vitamin C, Citrus Bioflavonoids, CoQ-10, Vitamin A
Nice to have the antioxidants but none of them are growth hormone releasers.
So the ingredient list only reveals one hgh releasing agent and a bunch of label dressing.
I am not saying that there aren’t some other good ingredients in the product. 7-Keto, DHEA, and melatonin have their uses. My biggest problem is that you have no idea how much 7-Keto or DHEA you are taking. Personally, I would rather take them separately because I want monitor the effect of the individual doses and adjust my cycling.
If they are following labeling laws, we can guess that the amount of melatonin is between 2mg and 200 mcg. This is a dosage that could help some people get a better night’s sleep. The problem is that the body becomes resistant to the melatonin rather quickly so it is better to take it only two or three nights per week.
We are once again going to acknowledge that this product can have benefits from the testosterone/adrenal hormone stimulators. These can be of benefit to many people, mostly males. However, we are rating products based on being growth hormone releasers.
HGH Complete is not a complete hgh product. Not even that great an incomplete hgh supplement.
We will boost the ranking up a little as a nod to the other useful ingredients.
The Raspberry-Lemonade flavored powder has a suggested retail price of $75.95 but you can find it at Bodybuilding.com for $44.95.
Fountain of Youth HGH Complete Powder gets an hgh product review rating of C-.
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April 1st, 2010 · Comments Off
hghtruths.com – Schwartz Labs Growth Hormone is just another one ounce bottle of water. It is a spray hgh product in a dropper bottle.
I will save you precious time by doing this review in reverse.
Schwartz Labs Growth Hormone (HGH) receives an HGH Supplement Review Rating of F.
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March 22nd, 2010 · Comments Off
The makers of Slimetropin (Slime=SY) had a lawyer contact our hosting company and file a complaint about copyright infringement because we used their trademarked product name 3 time in a review. They sure couldn’t have had any other problem because I really doubt that our original review appears anywhere on their site. We do list the ingredients but that is publicly available information and the names of the ingredients sure are not copyrightable. There are details about there affiliate program but that is also publicly available information.
Who knows why they decided to wake a sleeping bear?
Subject to consulting our own shark, we felt it prudent to take the review down and post it else where.
The fact of the matter is that Slimetropin (Slime=Sy) is spray bottle crap. The whole reason for the letter was to try to remove a negative review that out ranked all the fake affiliate review sites in the search engine.
You know the best way to get rid of negative reviews?
Try making a decent product!
We had not been paying much attention to this site lately. The review of Slimetropin (Slime=Sy) was over two years old and we were not doing anything to promote it. It was tempting to just take the information down and not worry about it. Not like it would make much difference to the small amount of money this site generates. Slimetropin really is of no importance to us in the grand scheme of things.
Then I started to get pissed.
We do feel that the use of the product name was not a violation of any trademark or copyright law because we were doing a product review and have protection under the First Amendment of the United States Constitution.
I don’t like the way the system allows somebody to use a letter from an attorney to strong arm people who are well within their rights.
More about this subject another day. Meanwhile I will just ramble on.
I have been reading Seth Godin’s new book, Linchpin. This has me wanting to think differently about the situation.
Normally, the first response would be to find a way to get even but that would simply be feeding the resistance and resistance is futile. Time to take a bigger perspective.
How do I use this ugly looking blog to help people more?
Let’s go over the spray hgh matter.
The basic truth of spray hgh is that there is no ingredient or combination of legal ingredients that can be put into a spray bottle that will cause hgh release.
Oral spray hgh might sound nice but it is tired old fiction. Most of the products on the market are just pretty bottles of water.
I know it would be nice to think that a few convenient sprays will do the trick but they won’t.
Which leads to the question…… Where are all the spray vitamins?
When you walk down the aisles of a vitamin store, why aren’t the shelves loaded with spray vitamins?
Something to ponder on another day.
Another question is where is the FTC? Why aren’t they protecting people?
I think the truth of the matter is I am just not into this site the way I have been doing it. Searching out products and giving them grades is just not the fun it was two years ago. Plus answering the same three comment questions dozens of times is boring. Doesn’t mean I will stop doing this task but there needs to be more.
Time to teach you how to fish. How to bake your own bread.
Yes, teaching you how to evaluate products on your own. How to look at a product and know whether it is good, middling or garbage.
The first important lesson is that if you see a spray bottle….you are looking at GARBAGE!
If the bottle is a pretty color of blue or green…it is stinky garbage!
Now that we have your first lesson done, we can start moving on to other subjects. Oh, who am I kidding. I am going to beat this spray thing into the ground. Just like when this blog first started.
This is the first time in over a year that writing a post has been fun. So I am going to do more writing for myself while trying to include some useful information for you.
So a little test:
What do you do if you see an oral spray hgh product?
Hide Your Wallet!!
News Flash!!!!!: The review of Slimetropin is back up! We went legally overboard to correct any possible trademark violation while protecting our constitutional rights.
All material in this post is published under my 1st amendment right to freedom of speech. Standing on the digital soap box.
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