What is the HGH
A Brief History of HGH
The human body has always produced human growth hormones. HGH isn’t something new or novel. In fact, you couldn’t grow to adulthood or survive for very long at all if your pituitary glands didn’t produce HGH. The reason this hormone has been the focus of research, news reports and lots of Internet chatter is because scientists discovered a way to produce recombinant HGH in the laboratory, making it much more available for medical use. Before this, HGH had to be harvested from the glands of cadavers and use was limited to when it was deemed medically necessary.
Examples of medically necessary use of HGH included stimulating growth in children and teenagers who were obviously not going to reach a normal height on their own. Many doctors also used it to treat Prader-Willi syndrome, an illness characterized by excessive weight gain and short stature. HGH treatments promoted weight loss in these patients, which was essential to improved health, since patients with Prader-Willi invariably become obese as they age.
Is HGH a Fountain of Youth?
During clinical studies of HGH, it was discovered that treatment with this growth hormone also improved lean muscle mass and improved the body’s immune system function. Also noted were improved liver function, increased calcium retention and bone density and the stimulation of improved cell growth, which aided the healing process. This was where the “fountain of youth” tag became mainstream.
The truth is, HGH doesn’t literally make a person younger, but it does give a person a better overall physique, more strength, the ability to recuperate from illnesses and heal from injuries more quickly. All of these traits are those of a younger individual, which is way some see it as a wonderful anti-aging treatment. Think about it – if your bones are less likely to break and you are less likely to get sick than others your age, won’t you feel and act younger?
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