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People with Diabetes tend to have high levels of the blood-sugar-regulating hormone insulin, as well as related hormones called insulin-like growth factors.
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In children without this gene mutation, growth hormone forces liver cells to produce another hormone called insulin-like growth factor IGF-1, which makes the children grow.
FOXNews.com 2011
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When you move your body in exercise, your muscles churn out several different kinds of growth factors, known as insulin-like growth factor (IGF-1), vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF-1), and fibroblast growth factor (FGF-2), that drive the brain’s production of new building materials that become the infrastructure for new nerve circuits.
THE PROGRAM KELLY TRAVER 2009
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When you move your body in exercise, your muscles churn out several different kinds of growth factors, known as insulin-like growth factor (IGF-1), vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF-1), and fibroblast growth factor (FGF-2), that drive the brain’s production of new building materials that become the infrastructure for new nerve circuits.
THE PROGRAM KELLY TRAVER 2009
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The actual fear is that manipulating growth hormones in cows -- or salmon -- may increase another hormone, insulin-like growth factor IGF, which could mimic the effects of human growth hormone in harmful ways.
Hormones In Food: Should You Worry? Health.com 2011
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The actual fear is that manipulating growth hormones in cows -- or salmon -- may increase another hormone, insulin-like growth factor IGF, which could mimic the effects of human growth hormone in harmful ways.
Hormones In Food: Should You Worry? Health.com 2011
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Dietary glycemic index and glucose, insulin, insulin-like growth factor-I, insulin-like growth factor binding protein 3, and leptin levels in patients with acne.
Mark Hyman, MD: Do These Cause Acne? MD Mark Hyman 2011
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It will provide critical information in understanding the potential mechanisms through which physical activity may affect ovarian cancer risk and prognosis, including what roles estrogens, insulin and insulin-like growth factors might play.
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Dietary glycemic index and glucose, insulin, insulin-like growth factor-I, insulin-like growth factor binding protein 3, and leptin levels in patients with acne.
Mark Hyman, MD: Do These Cause Acne? MD Mark Hyman 2011
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Dietary glycemic index and glucose, insulin, insulin-like growth factor-I, insulin-like growth factor binding protein 3, and leptin levels in patients with acne.
Mark Hyman, MD: Do These Cause Acne? MD Mark Hyman 2011
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