What is HGH?
June 20, 2009
Human Growth Hormone (HGH) is produced by the Pituitary Gland and is a very complex molecule. It promotes growth in children and plays an important role in adult metabolism. The body secretes the hormone, in decreasing amounts, throughout our lifetimes. The amount of hormone in the body can be measured by levels of IGF-1 (Insulin Growth Factor). Growth hormone has a profound effect on all the cells of the body, more than any other hormone because it is THE cell generator. HGH is the “master hormone” controlling many organs and body functions and is directly responsible for stimulating tissue repair, cell replacement, brain functions, and enzyme function.
This essential hormone, so plentiful in our youth, decreases dramatically as we grow older. When we were in our early twenties we generate a new cell for each one that dies. By the time we reach our fifties we only regenerate one new cell for every two that die. When we are in our seventies, only one cell is replaced for every three or four that die. We appear to shrink at this time in our lives because we lose one to two million cells per day which are not being replaced. At age 21, the normal level of circulating human growth hormone is about 10 milligrams per deciliter of blood, while at age 61 it is only 2 milligrams – an 80% decrease! It’s human growth hormone that grows the cells, bones, muscles, and organs, and it is the decreasing level of human growth hormone after age 30 that slowly robs us of our “youth.”
Human Growth Hormone (HGH) is the closest thing man has ever come to discovering the “Fountain of Youth.” HGH makes us grow by stimulating new cell growth, and the decrease of HGH causes our body to “ungrow.” To enhance the amount of Hgh in our bodies would logically enable us to continue to replace the natural loss of cells. As a result, HGH is the primary trigger hormone of the body.
