The Claim
In adults with severe burn injuries, administration of human growth hormone and oxandrolone reduces the time to complete healing of standardized skin graft donor sites from 14 days to approximately 10 days.
What the research says
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In adults with severe burns, treatment with human growth hormone and oxandrolone shortens the time it takes for skin graft donor sites to fully heal from 14 days to about 10 days.
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In adults with severe burn injuries, both human growth hormone and oxandrolone reduce the time to complete healing of standardized skin graft donor sites from 14 days to approximately 10 days, indicating a clinically meaningful acceleration of wound repair.
Two different drugs trigger the body to build more protein and break down less muscle, which gives the skin more building material to close wounds faster. One drug activates a receptor that turns on genes for protein building and turns off genes that tear down protein. The other drug stimulates the liver to release a hormone that tells muscle and skin cells to make more protein and stop breaking it down. Both actions give the skin cells the resources they need to grow back quickly over the wound.
What the research says
1 studyThis study found that two medicines—human growth hormone and oxandrolone—help burn patients heal skin graft wounds faster than usual, which matches what the claim says. Even though it doesn’t say exactly how many days faster, it clearly shows healing improved.
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