The Road to Longevity
Donald McLeod M.D., Philip White M.D., and W.M. Heatherington
The Truth About Hormone Replacement, Antioxidants, Exercise, Stress, and Diet.

Section III
HGH: The Master Hormone
Minimalism

Some years back there was a movement that came to the fore in the art world.
It went by the name of Minimalism. Its principal tenent was "Less is More".

Essentially, the movement sought to produce and promote a simplicity in art, to have artworks that were lean and uncluttered. In a word, to produce art that was "Minimal".

Taken to its extremes, perhaps the ultimate offerings from a minimalist's hand - things like an empty canvas or an untouched block of marble - might be things that many would not consider as being art at all; might in fact be things that some would regard with a jaundiced eye, and perhaps even bristle at. One painting of this sort was bought by the Federal Government of Canada during that period, for a large sum of money.
It outraged a good many Canadians.

The painting consisted of three vertical blocks of color that filled a huge canvas, and that was it. The reason for the outrage, aside from the expenditure of taxpayer's money, was that many citizens felt that this painting was too simple, too minimalist to even qualify as art.
That it served no purpose.

And yet the Minimalist movement did have a valid point. Paintings, and other artworks, do not always have to be filled with detail and complexity. There is a place for a simple, well done sketch, or a clean, open Chinese ink drawing. Art does not always have to be bigger, fuller, more. There is a place for less. The trick is to get it right.

So too for HGH levels that are artificially altered in the body. Although the desired effect is to raise the depressed levels of HGH above some minimal, inadequate standard, it is not the desired effect to bring about levels that are too high, and that bring on unwanted side effects. Here too, the trick is to get it right.

And this brings us to secretogogues.


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