Anti-aging miracle in a pre-filled syringe – that’s HGH! Well, that’s what it promises to deliver to various types of consumers in market frenzy.
Though many are driven in drugstores and shops for HGH purchase, many are already thinking twice of the therapy. Will it really deliver results as ads say they will? Are they for real? Are they really anti-aging in a bottle?
The Principles of Anatomy
HGH is produced by a pea-sized organ called the pituitary gland. These circulating hormones jump-start growth and development. The main reason why cells develop, tissues repair and you grow is because of the production, proliferation and circulation of these hormones in the body.
The height of HGH production is during the childhood and teenage years. When you reach middle to late adulthood, the production declines and that’s when you start to feel the weight of aging.
That’s physiology – the normal aging process. When the aging comes a little too soon, then a problem may arise.
In the 1980’s, the main source of HGH are dead bodies. What doctors do is that they remove the pituitary glands from dead bodies during autopsies and generate injectable HGH solutions from these remains.
However, viral diseases from the dead bodies are passed onto the living recipients. When mortality rates secondary to these injections rose, a synthetic version in the form of SOMATROPIN – one of the medications used in HGH therapy.
What Research Says on HGH
Studies associating HGH and anti-aging are rare. Most, if not all of what is released, are anecdotal in nature. A small-scale study was published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1990.
A dozen of healthy men were taken as subjects of the trial, aged 61-81. These men were subjected to HGH injections in a span of 6 months.
According to the reports of the respondents, they experienced an increase in lean body mass, mood, skin elasticity; a decrease in body fat and a relatively significant improvement in blood pressure and glucose levels.
Additionally, organs seemed to have returned to their normal usual size – bigger.
This study, however, is limited to men. Female reactions to these injections weren’t evaluated and so are those individuals belonging to a different age group.
Long-term use wasn’t evaluated as well. 6 months is a short-term course. Furthermore, though there was significant enlargement of the organs (as they were when you were younger), it doesn’t equally mean an increase in functionality or strength.
It was recommended, then, that further studies must be conducted to further evaluate the efficiency of HGH among humans.
This pilot study, despite its limitations, became a foreground on which other studies can be conducted. However, there are little evidences associating the same benefits to HGH again.
Just so you know: Sylvester Stallone was once busted in Australia in 2007 for possession of human growth hormone (HGH).
Stallone claimed that HGH made him recover better and faster. HGH was never approved for anti-aging use. They are regulated and prescribed medications. Medical consult is always advised.