HGH treatment was originally reserved for children with severe growth deficiencies. This was for two reasons: there was a very limited amount of HGH available because it had to be harvested from donors and people didn't fully understand all of the effects of HGH treatment. This was back in the fifties when doctors first began using HGH to treat patients and the entire idea of hormone treatment was new. The most obvious use for HGH was to help children grow, hence the name human growth hormone.
Eventually scientists found a way to synthesize the hormone and HGH treatment for underdeveloped children became much more readily available and affordable. This new advancement also opened the door for study and experimentation on HGH. The cornerstone of the theory of HGH treatment on adults was based on one such study which was shortly after published in the New England Journal of Medicine. It measured the fat and muscle content of elderly men being injected with HGH. As we would now imagine, there were huge improvements in both. These results sponsored a whole range of new studies to be done on the effects of HGH treatment.
As we now understand, HGH is responsible for stimulating cell division, keeping proper homeostasis and helping to regulate levels of other hormones. The first aspect of HGH treatment, cellular division, is arguably the most important. As you age, levels of HGH in your system drop and your body cells stop multiplying at the rate that they once did. This makes it much harder for your body to repair the damage it incurs from the environment around us. For example, the air we breathe, food we eat, radiation from the sun, gravity and nearly everything in our world is slowly damaging our body cells. When we are young we can repair this damage with much more ease because we can produce new body cells at a rapid rate to replace old, damaged ones. When there is a deficit in new body cells skin sags and wrinkles, bones become more brittle, organs do not function as well, eyesight and other senses begin to lose their potency. Replacing these hormones through HGH treatment will help your body begin to produce new cells at the rate it once did to help you function ideally again. The other two points are quite important as well, homeostasis and hormone stimulation play a paramount role in health. Proper homeostasis helps keep you from becoming sick and keeps metabolism going at a good rate so that energy levels are high and body fat is lower.
There are some negative aspects to HGH treatment using synthesized hormones. The most common of these is sore joints and fluid retention, sometimes arthritis, though it can be much worse than that. With excessive use of HGH injections there have been cases of acromegaly reported, which is more commonly referred to as gigantism. This is categorized as extensive and unusual bone and cartilage growth which results in deformity. Another of the rarer side effects of HGH treatment involving injections is the development of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, which is a rare neurological disorder. The symptoms include dementia, involuntary spasms, seizures and death within a matter of months.
To avoid these negative side effects yet still receive the benefits of HGH treatment there is another option besides injections of synthetic hormones. HGH supplements can stimulate the pituitary gland to produce and release more of the body's own natural HGH. Though it takes longer to see and feel the effects it is completely safe and eventually will have the same effects as the injections. HGH supplements are also available without a prescription, unlike the injections, and are a mere fraction of the cost.