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Article: Antiaging, or just raging? Some doctors believe that human growth hormone can reverse the aging process.
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- Insight on the News
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- August 14, 1995
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Some doctors believe that human growth hormone can reverse the aging process.
I'm 64 going on 35," booms Howard Turney, a Houston businessman. Four years ago, Turney's 48-inch gut flowed over his belt, his hands trembled and his eyes couldn't focus on the morning newspaper. "You could pull on my skin and it would just stay there in a heap, it was so thin," he says.
Since then, he's lost only five pounds, but his gut is down, his skin taut, his hands steady. He put the bifocals on for the last time almost three years ago. The difference, Turney says, is daily injections of human growth hormone, or HGH. "I know this sounds like exaggeration," he admits, "but I ...