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No proof that growth hormone therapy makes you live longer, Stanford study finds

Surveyors of anti-aging elixirs tout human growth hormone as a remedy for all things sagging-from skin to libidos -- and claim it can even prevent or reverse aging. But researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine say there's no evidence to suggest that this purported fountain of youth has any more effect than a trickle of tap water when it comes to fending off Father Time.

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