There's one main point I disagree with made in this article regarding human growth hormone, but the article highlights something that is important for all of us to recognize: there are natural ways to increase growth hormone levels. First, the point of disagreement. Like most articles on growth hormone the FoxNews article overstates the side effects of growth hormone replacement. As we … [Read more...]
Head Trauma Can Lead to Hormone Deficiencies
February 27, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Head trauma, including concussion, can lead to hormone deficiencies. This relationship between head trauma and hormonal imbalance, though, is not well-recognized by physicians and healthcare professionals. Head Trauma According to the CDC 1.7 million Americans sustain a traumatic brain injury each year. This number does not include individuals who sustain trauma, but don't seek medical … [Read more...]
Human Growth Hormone Replacement Therapy
November 25, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Human Growth Hormone Replacement Therapy: Short Background For decades, human growth hormone replacement therapy has become the answer to unusually short individuals, both young and adult despite the social and ethical controversies associated with it. These people are deficient of the said peptide hormone produced by the pituitary gland that stimulates growth and cell reproduction. To treat the … [Read more...]
Men: Steps to Fight Aging
November 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment
FoxNews Health published this article on November 20 on ways men can combat aging. The article looks at treatments that more men are exploring to maintain that youthful appearance as well as younger energy levels. These treatments increasingly include Botox injections, use of human growth hormone, testosterone replacement therapy, and various skin creams and cosmeceuticals. The article … [Read more...]
Women and Human Growth Hormone Replacement
August 29, 2011 By 2 Comments
Growth hormone (HGH) is not just for men anymore! Many of the reports looking at this hormone are male based and say little if any thing about the benefits in females. We now are quite comfortable with the fact that the aging female can benefit in many ways when all her hormones are supplemented including growth hormone. HGH is produced in the anterior pituitary gland and secreted in bursts … [Read more...]
Human Growth Hormone Replacement
August 23, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Human growth hormone (HGH) therapy has been the topic of numerous articles both positive and negative. HGH has made the news most often in regards to abuse by athletes and celebrities. Many physicians today who have read the literature understand when used correctly it is of significant value. At the end of the twentieth century Age Management Medicine came into existence and along with … [Read more...]
Growth Hormone, Antiaging Miracle Drug?
June 23, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Growth hormone has been touted as the fountain of youth, used by athletes to enhance performance and by body builders to make bigger muscles. Can this be true and if it is why are we all not taking it routinely? There are multiple studies available for review that look at Growth Hormone and its effects on our bodies. They tend to show … [Read more...]
The Landmark Human Growth Hormone Study
June 3, 2011 By Leave a Comment
In 1990 Dr. Daniel Rudman and his colleagues published in the New England Journal of Medicine a landmark study titled the “Effects of Human Growth Hormone In Men Over 60 Years Old”. This study spurred the interest in growth hormone as a potential treatment to reverse some of the physical changes that occur with aging and has become the landmark human growth hormone study. Rudman and … [Read more...]
What Are Symptoms of Low HGH Levels?
April 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Human growth hormone or HGH is an important hormone that provides enormous health benefits beyond those associated with growth and development. Growth hormone is produced in the anterior pituitary gland that resides in the brain. Growth hormone production and release is affected by many factors. The signs and symptoms related to low HGH levels are multiple, but are also non-specific … [Read more...]
Human Growth Hormone Facts
March 2, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Human growth hormone (HGH) is produced in the anterior pituitary and is a peptide hormone of 191 amino acids. Growth hormone stimulates or regulates many processes besides skeletal growth. Human growth hormone is probably better thought of as a pro-hormone that gets converted into IGF-1 in the liver and peripheral tissues. It is IGF-1 that is responsible for many of the actions attributed … [Read more...]
