Is Growth Hormone the Fountain of Youth?

Marie Miano, like some professional athletes, takes human growth hormone — but she has a prescription.

"I feel like a fountain of youth because I feel better than I did before. I feel younger, I feel healthier." she said.

At 54, she started growth hormone injections after reading actress Suzanne Sommers' book — just one Hollywood celebrity sold on HGH.

Actor Sylvester Stallone freely admits he used the hormone as he prepared for his latest Rambo movie.

"The way people think of HGH is archaic," the actor said on the Today Show.

"One of the dangers of the athletes or entertainers taking this stuff is providing a very bad example for all these young people certainly," Dr. Tom Perls of Boston University Medical Center said...

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