Adult Growth Hormone Deficiency

Aging is inevitable but getting old is optional. My mission is to improve the quality of life and reduce the risks for disease of my patients through well designed exercise/nutrition programs and correcting any hormonal deficiencies they might have.

When I encounter a patient at his or her initial evaluation that I suspect has insufficient growth hormone levels based on my clinical and laboratory findings, I correct their other hormonal deficiencies and start them on a closely supervised nutrition/supplementation and exercise program. If after 2 months this patient is unable to increase their own production of growth hormone I bring them back to my clinic for pituitary stimulation testing to prove or disprove my suspicions of GHD. Growth hormone treatment is only initiated if they fail this stimulation testing.