10/04/2018
8 Amazing Things You Didn’t Know About Growth Hormone
Human Growth Hormone has many positive benefits. Here are 8 amazing things you probably did not know about HGH.
Human Growth Hormone, or HGH is a critical hormone. While HGH is best known for stimulating and/or regulating all the processes that allow you to grow normally from a child to an adult, growth hormone is also responsible for maintaining healthy tissue and regulating the growth of muscle and bones throughout your life.
There is also increasing evidence that growth hormone therapy can slow the progression of age-related degeneration and inflammation of cells, and help support an overall sense of physical and emotional well-being as you age.
Here are 8 interesting things you should know about growth hormone.
1. Small source – big impact – Growth hormone, while playing a very big role in your growth, strength, and overall well-being, is produced by one of the smallest glands in your body. The pituitary gland, which regulates the production of HGH, is located at the base of the brain, and is only about the size of a pea!
2. Origins of HGH therapy - HGH replacement therapy has been available since the 1960s. However, in the early days, it had a rather macabre source. Originally, the only way to obtain growth hormone to use in therapy was to harvest it from the pituitary glands of dead bodies! This could lead to a very dangerous complication know as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease – an always fatal, debilitating brain disease similar to Mad Cow disease. Today, that risk has been eliminated, as medical science has perfected making synthetic HGH from human DNA that is biologically identical to the growth hormone made by your body!
3. HGH levels decline as you age – While growth hormone is needed even after you have achieved adulthood, your level of HGH declines with age. Once you are over 35, this drop can be significant. Many researchers now believe that most, if not all of the symptoms we think of as “growing older, i.e.…
• Fatigue
• Weight gain
• Mood Swings
• Muscle loss
• Sexual health issues
…are really just signs of low HGH.
4. Billionaire backs HGH research - Entrepreneur and well-known sports franchise owner Marc Cuban, has pledged millions of dollars of his own money into advanced research on HGH therapy. Cuban is specifically supporting research into the use of growth hormone to aid in the healing and repair of sports related injuries, but has said he also supports research into its many purported anti-aging properties.
5. HGH therapy can only be taken via injection – Authentic growth hormone therapy is only administered via injection. There are many products available online and in “muscle magazines” that claim to be HGH, or contain HGH. Any such products should be avoided. Any product that you can buy without a prescription, or that can be taken in any way other than subcutaneous injection – is not real HGH.
6. HGH abuse is a problem – Because of its known ability to increase muscle mass and improve performance, there is a problem in the country with HGH abuse, particularly among teens. A recent survey found that nearly 10% of teenaged girls and 12% of teenage boys, admit to trying what they believed to be HGH from illicit sources.
7. Too much of a good thing – While growth hormone deficiency (GHD) is a known problem that can be treated with HGH therapy, there are also diseases and conditions that can cause your body to produce too much HGH, and a condition known as acromegaly – or gigantism is the result. The well-known wrestler Andre the Giant’s super-human proportions were the result of acromegaly – it also lead to his untimely death at the age of 47.
8. HGH is not a steroid – HGH promotes muscle growth and can have performance enhancing properties, but unlike testosterone, it is not an anabolic steroid. It is instead a specific type of protein that reacts with receptors in cells to stimulate tissue growth.
This list is only a sampling of the many amazing facts about growth hormone. Can it make a remarkable difference in your life? If you are a man or woman over 40 and feeling tired, weak, and depressed – we are pretty sure that growth hormone replacement therapy can help.
Why not contact us today, and find out if growth hormone therapy is right for you?
