The gHP Sport Patent

SOMALIFE INTERNATIONAL INC. - Patent No. - US 6,346,264 B1 • Date of Patent - February 12, 2002

The present invention is a nutritional supplement. It is an amino acid stack secretagogue, which, taken orally, stimulates the pituitary gland to produce Somatotropin. One object of the present invention is to elevate Somatotropin release. This has the further result of increasing IGF-1 levels. Further objects of the present invention may also result, namely, inhibiting insulin depression; inhibiting hyperglycaemia and increasing insulin effectiveness; enhancing fat conversion, assisting in lowering cholesterol, and normalizing lipid balance.

A further novel aspect of the supplement of the present invention is the addition of the sulphur-containing branch-chain amino acids leucine, iso-leucine and valine, all of which themselves have a synergistic effect in combination with the human growth factors that are released in helping to build and improve muscle mass and strength.

A nutritional supplement for ingestion by humans for restoring growth factor levels consisting of unmodified rapidly absorbed free-form crystalline amino acids, in an amino acid stack which does not include non-amino acid nutritional supplementation, and which, when digested by a user, stimulates release of human growth factors in the user, wherein said amino acids consist of the amino acids leucine, isoleucine, valine, lysine, glutamine, ornithine and glycine.