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Association of Insulin-like Growth Factor 1 Concentrations with ALS prognosis
I am a great fan of scientists like prof. Ludolph.
Scientists from his team, in South-West of Germany, have investigated the associations of serum concentration of insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF1) with prognosis of ALS in their region ALS registry in a case-control and cohort study, respectively.Their study showed a clear association of low serum IGF-1 concentration with the bad prognosis of ALS, suggesting that higher IGF-1 concentration could increase survival.
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IGF-1 is related to muscle growth, so this isnt very surprising. More interesting is how to naturally boost IGF-1 concentrations.
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Another study didn’t see any diff in IGF-1 concentrations compared to healthy same-agers: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1468-1331.2009.02896.x
This tells us that the normal aging is related to ALS (nothing new) and if you aged less your chance to survive is higher too. So anti-aging is a good thing 😉
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