How Safe is Human Growth Hormone For Replacement Therapy?

Reports of the safety of human growth hormone (HGH) in the media are largely negative because of its widespread popularity among athletes who hoped to gain some performance edge with it. The reports are only unfortunate because HGH is very safe and has years of studies to attest to that.

HGH is produced in the pituitary gland of the brain and is absolutely essential for growth in children. In fact, adolescents have a much higher level of it than adults. It is responsible for height, for strong bones, lean muscle mass and plays important roles in the regulation and production of glucose and protein. It has been shown to improve the lipid profile, to stimulate the immune system and to help in the growth of body organs.

Growth is affected when there is a low level of HGH and in adults that accelerates aging. In such situations, the effective solution is to give HGH. Because animal HGH is ineffective in humans, semi-synthetic growth hormone made by recombinant DNA technology was introduced in 1985.

Due to reports in the 1990 claiming anti-aging properties for HGH, its use became popular and athletes hoping to turn its benefits into a competitive edge adopted it and gave it a bad name. It should be noted that the doses of HGH athletes take are so high it is inevitable that side-effects will present. In replacement therapy, however, you don’t need such high doses and so you are not given.

In high doses HGH is like any other medication: it produces side-effects and these include: a risk of diabetes, joint pain, retention of fluid in the extremities and carpal tunnel syndrome. Studies have shown, however, that HGH at moderate doses has no side-effects.

So while the benefits of HGH for normal people have been exaggerated so also have the side-effects. In the hope of achieving the promised claims some people take higher doses of the hormone and so present with these side-effects.

However, if you are on a HGH replacement program, it means you do have low HGH levels either because you are getting older (it’s quite common in people 35 years and above) or because you pituitary has always produced an amount not enough. The doses you get as hormone replacement are given according to your needs and so never approaches the high levels at which these side-effects present.

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