Growth hormone-releasing effects of whole body vibration alone or combined with squatting plus external load in severely obese female subjects.

What Was Tested

This randomized controlled trial looks at Exogenous HGH, sermorelin & older GHRPs (why they're passed over).

Whole body vibration (WBV) has been reported to exert growth hormone(GH)-releasing effects in healthy subjects.

Despite the potential of WBV to positively affect body composition changes via lipolytic effects, few studies have been performed in obese subjects to date.

Who Took Part

The abstract describes 7 women taking part.

PubMed indexes the participants as teenagers, young adults and adults, women only.

This study evaluated the acute effects of WBV alone or in combination with squatting plus external load (WBV+S) on serum GH levels and blood lactate concentrations in 7 severely obese women (age 22 ± 5 years; BMI 39.9 ± 2.9 kg/m2).

How the Study Was Run

The researchers set it up as a randomized study.

Because people in this Exogenous HGH, sermorelin & older GHRPs (why they're passed over) study were split into groups at random, differences between the groups are less likely to reflect who happened to join each one.

What Was Measured

Topics PubMed links to this paper include Exercise, Human Growth Hormone, Lactic Acid, Obesity, Morbid, Resistance Training, Vibration and Weight-Bearing.

What This Means in Plain Language

The paper is a randomized study of Exogenous HGH, sermorelin & older GHRPs (why they're passed over) in 7 women.

With fewer than 40 people, it is a small study, so it is better read as an early signal for further research than as a settled answer.

Results are reported in around 7 sentences of the abstract; we leave them to the paper itself rather than summarise them.

The publication is from 2012 (Obesity facts), a journal based in Switzerland.

More context: the Exogenous HGH, sermorelin & older GHRPs (why they're passed over) compound page, all human trials.