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Podcast: Empowering Midlife Wellness with Dr. Susan
Episode: Sermorelin 101: How This Peptide Stimulates Natural Growth Hormone | The Peptides Conversation
Description: In this video, I review sermorelin, a growth hormoneāelevating peptide, and explain where it fits physiologically within the growth hormone axis.
I begin by defining what peptides are and what is meant by a growth hormoneāelevating peptide, then clarify what sermorelin is ā and what it is not.
HOW SERMORELIN WORKS, Sermorelin is a synthetic analog of growth hormoneāreleasing hormone (GHRH). It acts at the level of the pituitary gland to stimulate endogenous, pulsatile growth hormone secretion, rather than providing exogenous growth hormone.
I discuss the downstream effects of growth hormone signaling, including its role in:
āļø sleep regulation
āļø bone metabolism...