Individual differences aside, there is one major generality that holds for all: as we age, our basal metabolic rate tends to become lower. This means that if a twenty year old and a fifty year old sit watching TV the fifty year old will ordinarily burn fewer calories.

Which brings us to HGH. One of the most dramatic and pronounced effects of HGH therapy is seen in fat loss. This has been observed from Dr. Rudman's early study right on through studies to the present. Perhaps fat loss appears as the most dramatic effect because it is something that the eye can see so readily.

The reason the term "fat" loss is used instead of "weight" loss, is that where people are not greatly overweight, in treatments with HGH they may not even lose any weight. But it will change places, and it will change in composition. Weight will move from the waist to the arms, legs, the shoulders. It will change from fat to muscle. Through this loss of fat and gain in muscle the body will become reconfigured. Through the effects of raised HGH levels we are returned to our more youthful shapes, our more youthful figures.

Although this loss of fat and gain in muscle mass is readily detected by others,

it is the physiological changes within that are important, for they are the changes that cause the outer changes.