The first rule is that a website that is obviously selling their hgh supplement should actually show you the label.  I am amazed at the number of these sites that make a big deal about how they have a label that meets all the GRAS rules for labeling and then don’t bother to show you the label.  Why would following the basic rules for rules be such a big deal?  99.9% of all supplements sold follow the labeling rules.  Why?  Because it is the law!

Still there are many sites that make a big deal out of the label and don’t show you the label.  I am not talking about the pretty front graphics design here.  There are no rules about the pretty graphics.  I am talking about the back of the label where the supplemental facts box is printed.  Legitimate websites are going to show you the actual supplemental facts box or at the very least they will publish the exact information information from the supplemental facts box.

Don’t know what a supplemental facts box is? Pop over to Bodybuilding.com or Swanson Vitamins.  Take a look at any supplement product and you will see that both sites show you the actual supplemental facts box.  Notice the black lines and the actual box.  There are legal rules about line size requirements and that you have a box.

Tough rules to follow.

To be fair, there are some other rules.  One is that you have to list information on serving size and the ingredients per serving while clearly stating that these are the ingredients per serving.  Still nothing hard to follow.

Now the label has to have a section that covers any ingredients that have an RDA or Recommended Dietary Allowance (Often referred to as Recommended Daily Allowance).  The exact amount of each of these ingredients should be listed along with the percentage of the RDA that this amount represents.  The ingredients should also be listed in the order of quantity in the product from greatest to least.

Still fairly simple.

Next there needs to be a section that lists all the ingredients that do not have an RDA.  Sometimes this is a straight list of ingredients and sometimes it is divided into fancy name blends that each have a sub-listing of the actual ingredients.  Whether in a straight list or in a blend, these ingredients are to be listed in order from greatest to least.

Maybe the tricky part is in the next step.

The final thing to do is to list the inactive ingredients from greatest to least.  In the case of hgh sprays the top thing in this part of the list is water.

Now that was not very hard was it?  Why make a big deal out of following the labeling recommendations?  Why not show the actual label?

That should be fairly obvious.  They don’t want you to have the honest information about what is in the product. 

The hgh marketers want you to buy their low grade product based on marketing hype.  They are not really looking for customers who are intelligent enough to not buy products because they cannot see a label.  They want the suckers who think the lies on their website are true.  These suckers have a much lower probability of returning the product for a refund.

The big rule you should follow is to never buy products from sites that do not show you the actual label.  The exception to this would be a legitimate vitamin retailer that has their own system for showing you the supplemental facts.  However, a vitamin retailer who does not do a good job of showing proper ingredient details should be avoided.

I am going to throw in another general rule that is not specifically related to the label issue.

You should never buy an hgh product from a site that is specifically set up to sell just that product or a small handful of products.  The odds are greatly in favor of it being over priced crap.  Generally, if an hgh product is any good it will be sold through legitimate online product retailers.  

However, these online retailers also sell a lot of garbage products.  They are in the business of selling what people want to buy.  They are not in the business of worry about whether or not the growth hormone supplements are any good.  There are a few exceptions to this statement.  A handful of companies exist that only sell products from legitimate brands and screen out most of the crap.  These honorable sites generally are not focused on the sports supplements business.

I probably should say more about the proprietary blends.

Manufacturers of many hgh supplements like to invent fancy names for those sections of ingredients that are “special” blends.  Like the scientific sounding name actually makes the product special.  Propreitary blends are a mistake that was part of the 1994 DSHEA Act.  I believe that the regulators should do away with the whole concept of proprietary blends.  People have a greater right to know exactly what the are taking than the companies do to protect their product from competition.

Proprietary blends only exist for marketing purposes.  They really have nothing to do with whether a product is any good or works. Do you really think that a different product that has the same ingredients but in slightly different amounts will be significantly different in its effectiveness?  Besides,  it  only takes is a few hundred dollars worth of testing to get an exact blueprint of what is in a vitamin product.

We always lower the grade on products that use a proprietary blend and raise it for products that give all the ingredients. 

I am saying that you should never buy a product that contains a proprietary blend.   Just do it being fully informed of why proprietary blends exist.

You can sometimes combine the RDA and proprietary blend information to figure out what is in a product.  That is if any of the RDA ingredients are included in one of the blends.  Before I talk about that  in detail, I will need to do posts on individual hgh releasers. 

Here is an example of something else to avoid: 2-Amino-5-Guanidinopentanoic Acid-5 Oxo L-Proline, 2,6-Diaminohexanoic Acid.

You don’t want to avoid those ingredients because they are just Arginine Pyroglutamate and Lysine.  What you want to avoid is any product that tries to BS you with the use of long chemical names rather than being honest and giving you the plain language version of the ingredients.  There is no legally usable ingredient that can only be shown by its chemical name.  This kind of BS is very common among scammy sports supplement companies. 

Where does that leave us with our review lessons so far?

1)  Hgh oral sprays are all garbage designed to scam you out of your cash.

2) It is no big deal to follow the labeling rules, most hgh products don’t give great details on their labels and avoid products that use chemical names rather than common names.

That should be a good start on labeling.  I am not sure what the next lesson will be.  I will probably need to start the series on the various hgh releasers and other ingredients so that you can make accurate judgements about the amount of ingredients in each product you want to self review.

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hghtruths.com – I have been promising for months to do a post on how to make GHR Essentials a better hgh supplement.

Well here we go! (Finally)

To recap, GHR Essentials made by Swanson Vitamins is the best value hgh product that we have reviewed to date.  It is not the best product we have reviewed to date, that honor still goes to Secretagogue Gold.  However, GHR Essentials is a very inexpensive product that is better than all of those products recommended by the fake review sites that cost three to eight times the money.

First time readers should probably read the GHR Essentials HGH Review first and then come back.

Those of you following the GHR Essentials story should remember that it has a couple of good releaser ingredients but is to light in the amino acid department for any of the amino acids to be of much value as secretagogues.

The simple solution is to add in more amino acids.  With 6 or 7 good ones to choose from what should we do?

We tried a few fancy stacked combinations and ended up going for a very simple solution using just one.  Funny how the simplest answers is often the best.

The easiest, least hassle and easiest solution was to take more glycine.

Glycine is a naturally sweet amino acid so it should be easy for most people to take by mixing the powder in a little water.  People who are really picky about the taste can try using a no sugar drink mix like Crystal Light for flavoring and the health food crowd might just add a dash of stevia.  The important thing here is to use some water and no sugar or actual juice.  Do nothing that will get the digestive system pumping.  Straight up is the best way.

OK, dosage.

The dosage of glycine is dependent upon your dosage of GHR Essentials which can run from 3 capsules to 12 capsules depending on your weight and sensitivity.  The capsule dosage for the combination program only runs from 3 to 6 capsules.

The best approach is to start with three capsules and see if you feel anything from it.  Do this for a week.

If your answer is yes, proceed to add in glycine. If your answer is no, increase the capsule dosage by one each week until you either start to feel something or get to six.  Then proceed to add in glycine.

There will always be a few people who get to six without noticing anything.  Don’t freakout. Just add in the glycine.

Just like the capsules, the dosage of the amino acid varies.  A three capsule person will be fine with taking 2.5 grams while a six capsule person should take 5 grams.

Yes, readers that is grams not milligrams or nanograms.  The proper dosage of amino acids for growth hormone release is measured in grams and it takes a decent number of grams.

This explains why so many of the capsule products get so such low grades and why sprays that claim to contain amino acids are crap.  Can you imagine trying to fit five grams of ingredients into six little sprays? Cannot be done.

Can you take glycine in capsule form? Yes but you are looking at taking 3 to 12 capsules and adding significantly to the cost.  Powdered glycine is relatively inexpensive.

What brand of glycine should you use?  Just get some from a reputable company that you trust.  I had just a little bit around from Source Naturals around so I purchased some of Swanson’s private label brand.  They also sell Now Foods that is even cheaper and you get twice as much but I have been doing a private test of the house label brands.

This is a very affordable program.  It works out to about $13 per month for the 3 capsule person and $21 per month for the 6 capsule person.  Rather inexpensive for a combination that as an individual product would get a solid B.

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We have to pay for the corporate jet somehow.

We might as well give this thing an official grade and add it to the Big List.

The GHR Essentials Combination receives an hgh review rating of a solid B. Maybe even a notch hire for the 3 capsule value conscious consumer.

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