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Human Growth Hormone(hgh): Human Growth hormone is known as the youth hormone. Its role in childhood is bony growth. Its role is far from being over in adulthood. GH levels are very high in childhood, and declines with aging. GH decline is considered a major cause of the aging process.  Allopathic medical doctors still think that GH role is over in adulthood, they check for excess of GH secretion but they never check for GH deficiency.Medical doctors who practice anti-aging medicine calls GH: the master hormone. Replacing GH in deficient adults may have amazing benefits. GH replacement therapy has shown in humans to: Improve muscle gain, help fat loss, increase energy levels, increase immune function, sexual performance, skin texture, improve vision, improve quality of sleep, increase bone mass, even restore hair color. GH is responsible for the healing and that’s why kids who have very high levels heal so fast as opposed to elderly people with very low levels. GH levels are detected by checking indirectly blood levels of IGF1. IGF 1 less than 150 ui is conclusive for deficient state.GH is considered by some people as ‘controversial’. When they tested GH replacement therapy initially, they used a very high dose of GH which triggered diabetes and joint pains in many cases. The current dose used for replacement therapy is much lower and the side effects have been minimal. Many “experts” worry that GH replacement therapy may flare-up an underlying cancer by making it grow! The current research after extensive worldwide use of GH replacement therapy has not shown any increase in tumors. As a member of the American academy of anti-aging medicine, I consider GH replacement therapy as safe and very effective. The ideal way of increasing GH is by using GH injections similar to insulin injections.Physical exercise may increase GH to moderate levels but may not be enough to exert a significant anti-aging benefit. There are hundreds of supplements called ‘HGH secretagogue’ as form of pills and sprays, sold online and on TV, those supplements have not shown any efficacy compared to GH injections. Those supplements claim increasing GH levels naturally. Many anti-aging doctors have studied many of those supplements and found them completely useless and ineffective. If you are tempted to try those, you should ask the company about independent studies that shows increase of IGF1 at least 30% from the baseline, all of them would probably fail to provide you any! I am sure in the future, we will have with the advancement in technology some effective ones but for now,the current HGH secretagogues on the market do not provide any significant anti-aging benefits. GH injectables are very expensive and cost about 600-800$ monthly, if you are able to afford this cost, you may want to check the directory of the American academy of anti-aging medicine for a doctor in your area who can prescribe it to you and follow you appropriately.The patent on Growth hormone is expected to expires soon, and then GH injectables will be cheaper and affordable.
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