If you don't follow a balanced diet, you should start incorporating healthy foods into your diet. They are proven ways to lower the risk of heart disease and to decrease both body fat and the levels of fat in the blood. There are also some pharmaceutical interventions that may be useful in combating the ill effects of lipodystrophy. Your doctor can help you decide if any of these medications are right for you. Recent Studies of Growth Hormone Dr. Engleson also spoke about using growth hormone to treat body composition changes.
Growth hormone is the most abundant hormone made in the pituitary gland in the brain.
It is found in highest levels during adolescence, and it acts to stimulate growth of bone and muscle. It can help increase lean body mass, which is why it has been used to treat both HIV-associated wasting and lipodystrophy. The effect is essentially complete by 12 weeks of therapy but reverses rapidly once therapy is discontinued. The most common side effects were pain in the joints and water retention. Some people with HIV have been turning to plastic surgery to counteract the effects of lipodystrophy.