Most of us have heard of HGH or Human Growth Hormone. Fewer have heard about the benefits of using it and fewer still have no idea whether they need to be using it. Age is not something that is easy to understand or contend with and many become anxious just hearing a discussion about it. One of the benefits of HGH is those who have used it claim it reverses the aging process.
Once we reach about the age of forty years old, we begin to notice not so subtle changes in our bodies. Our eyesight starts to act up and we start stretching out our arms to read things. Middle age for many is a wakeup call that their youth is disappearing and now what? You may still feel like you did when you were twenty but your body has different ideas. Your body is changing and not just the exterior but also your insides. This is about the time many men and women begin searching for anti aging solutions but the question remains – is there anything out there that can actually do something about aging?
Aging is a part of life and though we can hear all the good news about entering into a new phase of life – yadda, yadda, etc, we should not accept the fact that our decline has started. I personally wonder about the people in the Bible who live for hundreds of years, building arks, living in tough conditions, those folks clearly had the right idea about not giving in to aging! The thing about living to an old age is that we must have a fine quality of life when we are old. Why would we want to live to ninety or into our early hundreds and be decrepit and fragile?
Enter the Human Growth Hormone and its effectiveness on our health and appearance. Produced in our pituitary gland, HGH has been understood for quite some time now. It is the foundation hormone within our physiology. Dr. Daniel Rudman really brought HGH to the forefront of medicine when he revealed his findings in 1990 from a study conducted on a number of elderly men. He compared their results on HGH with a control group that was not receiving HGH. Since this time many more studies have been conducted and verification of Rudman’s results have been duplicated. HGH is thought to be a major breakthrough in anti aging therapies available to this point in history.
HGH was first utilized as a means of helping children with their development issues but it quickly became obvious that many elderly individuals could use the substance as well. When this adult usage started it was not long before the first wrinkles of middle age brought the boomer generation’s interest level to new heights. Nevertheless, it took a while before major pharma manufacturing was able to produce HGH in a synthetic formula.
The expense of producing HGH has meant that the cost is quite high and it is even harder to legally obtain it to this day. That has not stopped numerous Under counter opportunists to take advantage of sky high demands. We all have heard of the scandals surrounding athletes and strength enhancing drugs, they make up a large part of the users today. However it is these people that have branded HGH with a black mark because of the misuse of the drug in order to have an advantage in performance.
HGH is produced naturally as mentioned but as we grow older the amount we produce innately begins to diminish. This occurs slowly in the beginning but becomes far more obvious when we hit age thirty five to forty. The reasons for the drop in production of HGH in the pituitary gland is still not clear, but what is understood is how this decline in production adds greatly to our advancement in age.
This brings us to the question of how do we know if we should be taking HGH? Several factors spring to mind immediately – age and general health factor in large. There is no need for HGH when you are healthy and young, still maturing physically and everything is working fine. However, if you are past age forty and you are witnessing the signs of aging like wrinkles and creases, gray hair, less energy and a waning memory along with other indicators, you would likely notice quite a difference with HGH.
One should never attempt to begin a schedule of HGH without having a qualified physician following your progress closely. HGH is a very potent hormone and the effects on your physiology can be extensive. HGH is also a very pricey therapy when it is attained in a legal fashion through a physician. One twelve month therapy schedule will cost well into the thousands.
There are other reasons why HGH is helpful, for instance if you have a weak pituitary gland to begin with. To find out if this is the case you can undergo a careful physical examination that shines a light on IGF-1, a biomarker that determines HGH levels. Certain individuals are born with weak pituitary glands and their physician could well suggest they commence a scheduled course of HGH therapy.
Today there are other approaches to stimulating HGH production levels. Instead of using HGH hormone straight up, one could use an HGH releaser as an alternative. The HGH releaser triggers the pituitary gland into releasing more of the growth Hormone thus generating a more innate and safer substitute over injections of the HGH itself. These HGH releasers have proven themselves as effective at elevating levels of HGH and doing so without the higher risk injectible variety. Some of these risks are certain types of cancer, carpal tunnel syndrome and acromegaly among others that are known to occur from heavy and continuous HGH usage.
There is huge potential with HGH for anti aging challenges and for certain specific health irregularities and knowing that something can be done about aging issues is in itself profound at this time. There will most definitely be more news reported about HGH use and research will certainly continue, focused on the anti aging aspect of HGH when utilized in a clinical setting. When used properly there should be no reason why HGH could not be utilized to help the many tens of thousands of aging people who would like to stem the course of age progression.
HGH is not the new Fountain of Youth, though it does promote hope that something can be done to manage the aging process and increase the life quality in so many as they advance in age. The average human life span never held so much promise!
Fri, Aug 27, 2010
Anti Aging, Bioscience, Health And Aging, Longevity