The Importance of Human Growth Hormone
by Ageless Foundation
Human Growth Hormone (HGH) is one of the many endocrine hormones, like oestrogen, progesterone, testosterone, melatonin and DHEA that decline in production with age. While some of these hormones can be replaced to deter some of the effects of ageing, HGH reaches far beyond the scope of of any one of these hormones to not only prevent biological ageing but to significantly reverse a broad range of signs and symptoms associated with ageing.
In effect, HGH therapy has been shown to turn back the biological clock by 20 years or more.
HGH is the most abundant hormone secreted by the pituitary gland. It is produced at a rate that peaks during ones mid-twenties when accelerated growth occurs. Growth production starts becoming deficient in your mid-thirties and continues to diminish with age to the extent that a 60-year-old may secrete only 25% of the HGH secreted by a 20-year-old.
Growth hormone is primarily released in pulses throughout a 24-hour period but the majority is released during the beginning phases of sleep. It is then quickly converted in the liver to its powerful growth promoting metabolite Insulin-like Growth Factor type 1 (IGF-1). It is also known as somatomedin C. IGF-1 is responsible for most of the effects associated with growth hormone and can be measured in blood tests to determine current levels of growth hormone secretion.
Over 40 years of clinical evidence proves that by replacing growth hormone or stimulating its natural production, we can dramatically reverse the human ageing process.
Until recently, growth hormone therapy has only been available in the form of injections that are prohibitively expensive and difficult to use. The challenge in restoring youthful levels of HGH for most of us is not increasing our production or injecting the hormone itself but releasing it from its arrested state. We now know how to unlock the gates that keep HGH from circulating in the body.
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