Women, Food, and Hormones with Dr. Sara Gottfried
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The Different Types of Growth Hormone
Growth hormone is different for women than it is for men. What I see, this is less a sex difference, maybe more a gender difference. Unless they're doing some of those diet and lifestyle things, their growth hormone tends to decline faster. It's really common for me to test growth hormone. We have to test it as IGF-1 because it's more stable than growth hormone itself. But when I test my patients, I see this decline much more aggressive in women than what I see in men as they're aging.
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