HGH - HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE

Human Growth Hormone is the largest protein produced by the pituitary gland made up of 191 amino acids. Proteins are made of building blocks known as amino acids. HGH is genetically engineered of the same 191 amino acids. It’s the same genetic engineering they use for insulin. They cloned the 191 amino acids and put them together in the same exact sequence of the DNA for that of HGH. It’s 100% identical, physically, chemically and biologically to the one made by the pituitary gland.

Growth hormone, secreted by the pituitary gland, is a small protein-like hormone (peptide), similar to insulin. Commonly referred to as human growth hormone or "HGH," it is difficult to measure directly. HGH is secreted in very brief pulses during the early hours of sleep and remains in the circulation for only a few minutes. It is quickly taken into the liver and converted into somatomedin-C, another small peptide hormone (also known as insulin-like growth factor-one or IGF-I). Somatomedin-C is then responsible for some of the activity of growth hormone in the body. Somatomedin-C levels in the blood are much more constant and can be measured in the laboratory as an indicator of total daily HGH production. During adolescence, when growth is most rapid, production of HGH is very high. That is why it was named "growth hormone." Even after growth stops, however, growth hormone must continue to be present (at somewhat lower levels) throughout life to maintain physical and mental health and well-being. Tissue repair, healing, cell replacement, organ integrity, bone strength, brain function, enzyme production, integrity of hair, nails, skin and vital organs all require the ongoing availability of adequate growth hormone. After age 20, growth hormone production falls progressively and consistently at an average rate of about 14% per decade. By age 60, it is not uncommon to measure a growth hormone loss of 75% or more. Physical decline with age correlates directly with decreased secretion of growth hormone by the pituitary gland.

Children who develop a pituitary deficiency of growth hormone at a young age will never grow normally and are destined to become dwarfs in adulthood if untreated. Human growth hormone therapy was initially developed to treat those children so they could grow to become normal adults. Initially, supplies were very limited, expensive and sometimes contaminated. There was not enough growth hormone available to treat all the children who needed it. With the development of recombinant DNA technology, human growth hormone has recently become more available and in very pure form—but it is still expensive. The easy availability of growth hormone now provides a new dimension in health care and preventive medicine. Approximately every three years 90% of the cells in the human body are made anew. The body is composed of more than 100 trillion cells which are continuously dying and being replaced. Only in the brain and nervous system are the original cells (neurons) retained. But even in the brain new proteins are continuously being produced to store memories of each new experience. Learning, memory and intelligence all depend on adequate growth hormone. As growth hormone falls with age, functions of all vital organs decrease. Human growth hormone replacement therapy is now available to reverse and slow age-related symptoms of physical and mental decline. By measuring blood levels of growth hormone (somatomedin-C) in older adults, and also in younger patients who are not doing well despite other therapies, a new advance in health care and preventive medicine is now available. If somatomedin-C is at the normal level for a healthy young adult, the use of supplemental growth hormone is not warranted. If, however, growth hormone is low, then supplementation can offer the potential for great benefi