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@mondo2000-bot.bsky.socialSep 28, 2026, 11:42 AM

Mondo 2000 Magazine - Issue number 12 (1994), pages 47-48

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@mondo2000-bot.bsky.socialSep 28, 2026, 10:42 AM

Mondo 2000 Magazine - Issue number 11 (1993), pages 89-90

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@taonf.bsky.socialSep 28, 2026, 10:31 AM

Durk and Sandy Explain it All for You
with Jude Milhon

The perky ones have some new obsessions, most of them involving arginine

Grow Your Own Growth Hormone

Want another shot at misspending your youth? #Cyberpunk #Mondo2000 03 (1991) archive.org/details/Mond...

DURK PEARSON: Healed up like a teenager. But Mickey was in his 50s. SANDY SHAW: Like in the report about the frail elderly men in the New England Journal of Medicine… DP: Let me read you a quote: The effects of six months of human growth hormone on lean body mass and adipose tissue mass were equivalent in magnitude to changes incurred during 10 to 20 years of aging. SS: We've been using arginine for GH release since 1979, the year l broke my foot. At that point, we were about to start supplementing ourselves with it experimentally, because we'd been reading about its use for immune system stimulation. DP: In 1976 we decided this is one of the big problems of aging. It's rare for a person in their sixties to have 20% of their T-cell immune function left. That's the part that fights cancer, the part that's wiped out by AIDS. Someone 60 years old has greater than 3 times the incidence of cancer as a 20-year-old. SS: And it isn't just from being exposed to carcinogens over a longer time. DP: As for GH itself, at autopsy even elderly humans have normal amounts of growth hormone in the pituitary—enough for 100 exercising-teenage-type-releases, which is a huge pulse. It's just harder to release. So we were looking at releasers like arginine. Anyway, when Sandy broke her foot, we'd done all the toxicology work and we knew what doses we were going to use. SS: Since arginine helps wound healing, it was an ideal time to start. DP: Her foot healed twice as fast as the doctors said it would. She took 10 grams of arginine about an hour before doing bench presses, which she could do lying down. She did 2 or 3 minutes of this a day, and over a 6-week period she lost about 25 pounds of fat and put on 5 pounds of muscle. She should have lost one or two ounces of fat. SS: Based on the amount of energy I had to use to lift the weights. DP: That was the start of our using GH releasers daily.DP: Unless your pituitary is damaged, you can get GH by using an arginine-plus-cofactor GH-releaser in sufficient quantities. Most of the GH releasers on the market are drastically underpowered. We saw one that contained a ¼ gram of arginine and a ¼ gram of ornithine. Our formulation gets more mileage by adding choline and B5 and some boron. Boron increases levels of testosterone, which is a natural anabolic. SS: The USDA scientist who discovered that boron is essential in humans proposed it be used for postmenopausal women because it increases estrogen levels. He thought it might be possible to use a boron supplement and eliminate the need for estrogen replacement. M2: And GH release maps strongly to estrogen levels for all ages and sexes. DP: Women are a bit more sensitive to the arginine-induced release of GH. It takes about 12 grams in a single oral dose to get a good release in women, about 18 in men. M2: How do you use this? DP: We take it about an hour before exercise, an hour before sex, and right at bedtime… SS: …in order to mimic the effect that you would get from a youthful GH pulse release. In young people you see large pulses in response to exercise, and about 90 minutes or so after falling asleep. DP: We’ve seen phenomenal results. I spend all my time lying flat on my back on my waterbed with my computer terminal. I ought to barely make it down the stairs, but I've got good muscles! SS: I'm sure it would be better if we did regularly exercise. But we don't, and we’re still very muscular. M2: When one of our editors heard that 80-year-old men were functioning like 60, and 60-year-old men like 40, he wondered if it could make a 38-year-old like an 18-year-old! DP: Take one serving of arginine and co-factors an hour before sex. Then for 3 days 2 servings, about an hour before. From then on take 3 servings, an hour before sex. He's going to notice the difference! SS: Increased libido. It's really unbelievable! Illustration by Eric WhiteGrow Your Own Growth Hormone Want another shot at misspending your youth? If you haven't got $14,000 a year, here are some interventions fresh from medical research for growing your own GH. Since GH is squirted out at intervals over 24 hours, and GH does not downregulate itself, the obvious strategy is to avoid anything that kills GH release, and seek nonharmful GH releasers (GHRs). You can manipulate diet and exercise to maximize your own GH without recourse to chemicals. Hideous side effects can be expected from nearly every drug mentioned in: Your Imprudent High-Growth-Hormone Day Do some pleasurable stretching and toning exercises and pop some L-dopa, bromocryptine and a couple of antihypertensives Do you find this too strenuous? Do you fear side effects, unsuspected synergisms and overdoses? You might try instead:The Prudent High-GH Regimen Fast at least one day a week. This is the most powerful releaser of GH. It seems to reverse aging remarkably, redistributing body fat, producing a lower fat-muscle ratio and a more youthful chemical profile. Eat high-protein low-fat vitamin-rich snacks, and take 90-minute naps. Do something strenuous every day. Swim, dance, engage in the sex of your choice. Do yoga and Tai Chi for pleasure, to release endorphins. For the same reason, laugh easily and go far out of your way to please yourself. Walk briskly: Breathe with your whole body. Use muscles to breathe. Shallow breathing is also related to cardiovascular problems. Embrace emergencies vigorously. Love your friends as energetically as you combat your enemies. Live well, live long!
@mondo2000-bot.bsky.socialSep 28, 2026, 9:42 AM

Mondo 2000 Magazine - Mondo.2000.Issue.03.1991, pages 23-24

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@potato.softwareSep 28, 2026, 8:45 AM

Mondo 2000 Magazine - Mondo.2000.Issue.16.1996, pages 123-124

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@mondo2000-bot.bsky.socialSep 28, 2026, 8:43 AM

Mondo 2000 Magazine - Mondo.2000.Issue.16.1996, pages 123-124

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@potato.softwareSep 28, 2026, 8:01 AM

Mondo 2000 Magazine - Issue number 11 (1993), pages 61-62

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@mondo2000-bot.bsky.socialSep 28, 2026, 7:42 AM

Mondo 2000 Magazine - Issue number 11 (1993), pages 61-62

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@potato.softwareSep 28, 2026, 6:42 AM

Mondo 2000 Magazine - Mondo.2000.Issue.17.1997, pages 67-68

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@mondo2000-bot.bsky.socialSep 28, 2026, 6:42 AM

Mondo 2000 Magazine - Mondo.2000.Issue.17.1997, pages 67-68

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@mondo2000-bot.bsky.socialSep 28, 2026, 5:42 AM

Mondo 2000 Magazine - Mondo.2000.Issue.03.1991, pages 35-36

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@mondo2000-bot.bsky.socialSep 28, 2026, 4:42 AM

Mondo 2000 Magazine - Issue number 10 (1993), pages 37-38

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@mondo2000-bot.bsky.socialSep 28, 2026, 3:42 AM

Mondo 2000 Magazine - Mondo.2000.Issue.04.1991, pages 135-136

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@mondo2000-bot.bsky.socialSep 28, 2026, 2:42 AM

Mondo 2000 Magazine - Mondo.2000.Issue.04.1991, pages 37-38

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@mondo2000-bot.bsky.socialSep 28, 2026, 12:42 AM

Mondo 2000 Magazine - Issue 6, pages 29-30

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@mondo2000-bot.bsky.socialSep 27, 2026, 11:42 PM

Mondo 2000 Magazine - Mondo.2000.Issue.16.1996, pages 23-24

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@mondo2000-bot.bsky.socialSep 27, 2026, 8:42 PM

Mondo 2000 Magazine - Mondo.2000.Issue.03.1991, pages 17-18

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@mondo2000-bot.bsky.socialSep 27, 2026, 7:42 PM

Mondo 2000 Magazine - Mondo.2000.Issue.01.1989, pages 85-86

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@mondo2000-bot.bsky.socialSep 27, 2026, 6:42 PM

Mondo 2000 Magazine - Issue number 15 (1996), pages 29-30

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@mondo2000-bot.bsky.socialSep 27, 2026, 4:42 PM

Mondo 2000 Magazine - Issue number 09 (1993), pages 27-28

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