But we at Health Bulletin try to give you a balanced picture since we are not promoting anything, but just trying to present the facts. Muscle mass increased in both sexes though more in men. Fat mass decreased in men but not in women. In our view it is a mixed picture. There was no comment about that in this report, but others have shown IGF-1 to be a growth factor that played a role in their getting cancer.
Unhappy answer is, both.
Readers have to make the choice as to whether to take it or not, knowing risks and benefits. Morales, Haubrich, Hwang, Asakura and Yen, reported in Clin. Discoveries are made virtually every day in research centers around the world. Without going into details, let us say that the proposition was made that perhaps this substance in our cells, which gets shorter when we age, is the secret of life. Scientists thought at first that this was the case.