HGH Supplements - Introduction
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HGH supplements are relatively new as far as hormone products go. Back in the 1950's there was no such thing as an HGH supplement, so hormone deficits had to be solved in a different way. Originally used for treating growth deficiencies in children such as dwarfism, the first injections of human growth hormone were hormones which were extracted from donors. For quite a while this was the only way to get HGH, and it was reserved only for those truly in need of it for medical reasons.
HGH supplements were quite a ways off; in the 1970s however, scientists found a reliable way of synthesizing the hormone. Now being able to produce HGH in a laboratory, this meant that there could be enough of it available to do lengthy studies on it and find other benefits and medical applications. With HGH supplements still a long way off, the original testing involved injections. The most famous of the clinical research involving HGH which sponsored nearly all further study of the hormone was one published in the New England Journal of Medicine in which one group of elderly men were given injections of HGH and the other were given a placebo. The group which was given the placebo showed very little change in physiology; the group given HGH showed large gains in lean muscle mass and a drop in body fat. HGH helps in repairing damaged body cells, creating new body cells and keeping metabolism going at a good pace, so further research has shown a much wider array of benefits.
The leap from synthesized hormones to HGH supplements came about in the 90's as people began searching for a way of replacing HGH that was both cheaper and more natural. HGH supplements act as a catalyst to stimulate the natural secretion and release of human growth hormone. Taking an HGH supplement has a lot of benefits, especially for someone passed the age of thirty five. This is because HGH levels drop in every person at about the age of thirty five and continue dropping as one gets older.
Because human growth hormone repairs damaged body cells, taking an HGH supplement can help reverse the signs of aging in many ways. People who take HGH supplements for a consecutive three months or more see an improvement in lean muscle, decrease in fat, increased efficiency of the immune system (getting sick less often), more energy and sometimes better sleeping patterns. For people under the age of thirty five, boosting your HGH levels by using HGH supplements can improve athletic performance and help build muscle.
Unlike injections of synthetic hormone, HGH supplements have no side effects. This is because the HGH supplement sponsors the release of your own, naturally produced HGH rather than receiving it from an outside source. HGH supplements are also superior to injections because getting your HGH from an outside source over a long period of time will damage your pituitary gland through inactivity. People who take injections and discontinue usually find that they feel worse than before, this is because the body has relied on the injections of HGH for growth hormone for so long that the pituitary has become completely idle and can no longer produce HGH on its own. Even though HGH supplements will take a little longer to work the benefits far outweigh the negatives when it comes to a comparison over the supplements.