Our doctors can perform a simple blood test to determine if your are HGH deficient
In normal children and adults, human growth hormone is produced by the pituitary gland in the center of the brain from birth. Because HGH is responsible for the final size of the adult body, it is in abundant supply during adolescence and puberty, when the body is growing and developing at an alarming rate. Human growth hormone is directly linked to the length of bones as well as the size of muscles and internal organs. Most children will stop growing at age 18 and this is a direct response to the human growth hormone being produced. HGH controls the lengthening of the arms and legs and this lengthening process ends and the bones fuse at about age 18. After this fusion, no further growth can take place.
Production of HGH is highest when a person is in adolescence, when they are at an optimal youthful state. Since growing has concluded, HGH levels begin to even off and begin to decrease as a person gets older. Researchers believe that human growth hormone levels peak between the ages of 21 and 30 then decline at a rate of as much as 14 percent per decade. HGH levels fall increasingly in everyone once they reach adulthood, causing weight gain, decreased vision, problems sleeping and a loss of sex drive, among many other common issues.
Researchers have found that almost every adult is deficient in human growth hormone. By the age of 40, a high percentage of people were found to have “elderly” levels of human growth hormone production which was down almost 50 percent from levels attained during adolescence.
Some people are born with a condition in which their body never
produces enough human
growth hormone. Labeled growth
hormone deficiency (GHD),
this condition is found in both pediatric and adult patients.
As a result of GHD,
a person's body does not produce the amount of human
growth hormone necessary for normal bone and muscle
growth. The two main causes of GHD
are an abnormal pituitary gland or mutated genes. However, in
many cases of GHD,
the cause of the condition remains unknown.
If you think you have a human growth hormone deficiency, HGH replacement therapy may work for you. Call us or email us today and see how HGH can help you live a better life. We’d be happy to schedule a consultation today.
