Facts on Human Growth Hormone

What is human growth hormone?
Human growth hormone (hGH) is a signaling protein with a specific shape, comprised of 191 amino acids in a unique sequence. Secreted by pituitary, immune, fat and bone cells, hGH promotes growth, regulates the heart and metabolism, and coordinates psychological and physical health. HGH levels decrease significantly with age.

What organs respond best to hGH?
HGH predictably affects the liver, intestines, skin, Islets of Langerhans, prostate and uterus (hormonal). Additionally, hGH targets the heart, brain, eyes, and specific immune cells (nervous and immune). All of these organs decline in health during the aging process. Organs actually shrink in size during the aging process. It is well documented that hGH stimulates organs to return to their original, youthful sizes.

What happens to hGH levels as people age?
The presence of hGH in a healthy adult declines at a rate of about 14% per decade after age 30 and is frequently non-existent by age 80. The American Association of Endocrinology and the American College of Endocrinology suggest that growth hormone deficiency is an age-related event characteristically defined as a cluster of easy to recognize symptoms that include:

• Fatigue
  
• Increased weight and abdominal obesity
  
• Decreased lean body mass, muscle mass, and strength
  
• Decreased exercise capacity and physical performance
  
• Cold extremities
  
• Reduced vitality
  
• Impaired sense of well-being
  
• Poor sleep
  
• Emotional instability, anxiety

Is hGH like other hormones?
No, hGH is really a growth factor. Thus, while hGH strengthens bones, helps people grow and regulates metabolism – like other hormones – it also coordinates all immune, nervous and hormonal activities in the mind and body on a regular basis –like growth factors. Growth hormone is secreted by many cells – unlike hormones – and it travels in both the blood and lymph –like growth factors.

How does hGh as a growth factor burn fat?
Growth hormone is actually in the same class of signaling proteins as growth factors. Researchers found that hGH uses the same unique signaling pathways characteristic of growth factors. Just one of more than 40 growth factors, hGH is a multi-potent signaling protein that differs in structure and biological function from all other growth factors. It specifically affects targeted organs to alter metabolism in favor of burning fat and building protein.

What are growth factors?
Growth factors, including growth hormone, comprise the common language used by the immune, nervous and hormonal systems to coordinate activities. You can think of growth factors as emails which quickly guide a cell’s DNA on how to respond to external signals with appropriate cell actions. Growth factors are crucial agents for cellular survival, development, specialization, nutrient uptake, and repair, enabling a cell to be restored in the event of illness, infection, trauma or stress. It is cell signaling that helps prevent aging and heals the body from a multitude of unwanted self-observed chronic symptoms. 

STUDY 1

Daniel Rudman, M.D., in the New England Journal of Medicine:

"The effects of six months of human growth hormone on lean body mass and adipose-tissue were equivalent in magnitude to the changes incurred during 10-20 years of aging." Dr. Rudman studied patients age 61 to 81 at the Medical College of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. After six months, Dr. Rudman observed a reversal of the aging process in patients who received HGH injections. The results were to turn back the clock, biologically, as much as 10 to 20 years!

STUDY 2

Dr. Chein of the Life Extension Institute studied 202 patients that he treated with HGH. Patients reported improvement in the following areas:

1. Wrinkle disappearance 61%
2. Skin elasticity 71%
3. Skin & hair care, skin texture 71%
4. Skin thickness 68%
5. Exercise tolerance 81%
6. Overall life outlook 78%
7. Healing capacity 71%
8. Emotional stability 67%
9. Healing of other injuries 61%
10. Back flexibility 83%
11. Muscle size 81%
12. Body fat loss 82%
13. Hot flashes 58%
14. Memory 62%
15. Strength, exercise & body fat, muscle strength 88%
16. Sexual function, potency/freq. 75%
17. Energy level 84%
18. Resistance to common illness 73%
19. New hair growth 38%
20. Duration of penile erection 62%
21. Menstrual cycle regulation 39%