WHAT IS THE HISTORY OF Gerovital H3 and Vitacel GH3-7-8-9 AND PROCAINE HCL?
As with many of the great scientific advances of history, GH3 was discovered by accident. The active ingredient of GH3 is procaine HCL, a local anesthetic developed in 1905 by Doctor Alfred Einhorn, a German scientist. Over the years, doctors using procaine HCL began to notice regenerative antiaging effects: arthritis disappeared in some patients, hair regrew or recolored and skin quality improved. However, the numbing effect of procaine hcl leads the body to trigger cholinesterase, an enzyme, which breaks the procaine down and ejects it from the cells in about one hour. During the 1950s, Doctor Ana Aslan, a gerontologist and director of the Bucharest Institute of Geriatrics in Romania, was the first to recognize that these discovered anti-aging regenerative effects of procaine hcl might be extended if the procaine were stabilized so that it would not “attack” the body cells with a numbing effect. After years of laboratory and clinical work, she and her colleagues succeeded in doing ju
