About HGH

HGH (Human Growth Hormone) is a protein hormone composed of 191 amino acids, synthesized and released by the Somatotroph cells (hence called Somatotropin) in the anterior pituitary gland of our brain in pulses. It is usually released during the first phases of a deep sleep. It is then processed in the liver to make proteins that are essential in repairing damaged tissue, promoting cell regeneration, allowing bone growth thus height increase, enhancing muscle growth, burning fat, and maintaining healthy blood pressure and cholesterol levels.

Effects of HGH

Human growth hormones affects the anabolic (building up) process of the body. Enhancing the increase in height in young children is the most widely known effect of HGH, and appears to be stimulated by at least two mechanisms.

1. HGH directly stimulates division and multiplication of the primary cells in the growing ends of children's long bones
2. GH also stimulates production of insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) which has growth-stimulating effects on a wide variety of tissues. IGF-1 also has stimulatory effects on osteoblast and chondrocyte activity to promote bone growth and increase body height.

More effects of HGH

Although height increase is an all-too-manifest effect of HGH on the human system, it has several other specific and important functions. These functions range from protein synthesis to building muscle mass; calcium retention to mineralization of bones; stimulating the immune system to maintaining fuel homeostasis; etc.

Secretion of HGH

There're many factors affect the secretion of HGH in the body include exercise, nutrition, sleep, stress and sometimes even by growth hormone itself.

HGH in young children

Young children normally have a huge amount of this hormone in their body since they need a lot of HGH for a proper growth. Thus children who weren't growing at a normal rate is mostly caused by a lack of human growth hormone in their body and often can be treated by going through HGH therapy.

HGH supplement

At first, injection was the only way to supply additional HGH into a person who required it. However, this type of HGH injection therapy was expensive, time consuming and limited. Only healthcare providers could determine who should endure HGH therapy. This is because it may cause the production of your own natural HGH to cease as it's often so strong and provide you with more HGH than your body needs that your body decides to stop producing it.

Nowadays, HGH supplements and HGH products are available as HGH dietary supplements such as in the form of injections, oral sprays, pills or powder form.

Besides, HGH can also take the form of HGH releaser and homeopathic HGH.

• Homeopathic HGH - Secretagogues
  
  Homeopathic HGH contains a small amount of actual synthetic growth hormone to stimulate production of your own HGH. It often comes in spray form.
• HGH Releaser
  
  HGH releaser is a type of HGH designed to promote the production of natural growth hormone. Unlike homeopathic HGH, HGH releaser is made up of amino acids which can stimulate HGH production but does not actually contain synthetic HGH.

Excesses of HGH

Deficiencies of HGH may cause:

1. Pituitary tumor composed of somatotroph cells of the anterior pituitary.
2. Prolonged HGH excess thickens the bones of the jaw, fingers and toes accompanied by pressure on nerves, muscle weakness, insulin resistance or even a rare form of type 2 diabetes, and reduced sexual function.

Deficiencies of HGH

Deficiencies of HGH often cause:

1. Failure to growth and short stature
2. Delayed sexual maturity

HGH for height increase

HGH is particularly used to treat people with short stature to grow taller. But as the use of HGH supplements become wider and wider, it is also taken by people who want to enhance their height. HGH supplements for height increase is especially effective if you're still in your growth phase and your growth plates are still opened. If you're an adult and your growth plates are already closed HGH supplements may give a very little affect or even none.