A Brief Introduction To HGH
Human Growth Hormone is an essential hormone produced by the pituitary gland. HGH stimulates growth, cellular reproduction, and cell regeneration in humans. It is crucial for children and adolescents for their physical growth and development. Apart from this, it also has important roles in adults.
How does HGH help in weight loss?
Our body produces many crucial hormones including somatotropin, which plays a major role in weight loss. Growth Hormones stimulate weight loss by reducing fat deposition as it promotes lipolysis, increases lean muscle mass and also increases Basal Metabolic Rate.
Deficiency of Human Growth Hormone may result in increased fat deposition, reduced lean muscle mass, and difficulty burning calories. Even with adequate exercise and reduced calorie intake, losing weight may not be possible if your body doesn’t produce sufficient amounts of HGH.
Correcting HGH deficiency via HGH supplements can solve this issue with minimal side effects as they simply promote your body’s natural production of HGH.
The Other Benefits Of HGH for a healthy body composition
HGH increases protein synthesis; increases muscle mass and promotes lipolysis. A recent study revealed growth hormone deficiency caused an increase in total body fat by 7 percent, decrease in muscle mass in a truncal distribution, which subsequently resulted in an increase in the overall ratio of waist to hip.
Additionally, the results reported abnormal lipid levels, with a decrease in HDL levels and an increase in LDL levels. LDL enhances plaque formation in the arteries while HDL inhibits this process. Plaque formation can eventually lead to myocardial infarction. An overall increase in vascular wall thickness, as well as plaque formation, increases the risk of cardiovascular disease-related mortality. Thus, patients with HGH deficiency are associated with higher mortality due to the resultant abnormality in lipid levels.
What are the methods to increase HGH levels?
1. Lifestyle Changes:
Reducing sugar intake, sleeping at least 7 hours daily, doing vigorous exercise, losing body fat and fasting intermittently can all help naturally increase HGH production.
2. HGH Injections (Recombinant HGH Therapy)
Currently, some small studies have been conducted that show HGH injections result in fat loss and muscle gain. HGH injections are not recommended for use as a weight loss regimen as the risks outweigh the benefits. It should be only used in people who have proven HGH deficiency.
HGH can be found in injectable form with a weekly dosage but it can only be bought with a doctor’s prescription. It has been approved for use in adults and children who have a growth hormone deficiency, for organ transplants patients, and for muscle wasting in AIDS patients. In patients with HGH deficiency, HGH therapy can result in significant improvement with changes in body composition. An overall reduction in fat mass with an associated increase in muscle mass has been observed in research studies. In a study of 24 adults with HGH deficiency, low dose HGH injections were found to normalized lean body mass over a 6 month period.
Although many companies claim that HGH is equally effective in powder or pill form, clinical trials have found it to be effective only in injectable forms.
3. HGH supplements (HGH Releasers)
Many companies have manufactured products, which claim to stimulate the production of HGH. They obviously have fewer side effects in comparison to the injectable forms however, their efficacy is debatable in comparison to injectable HGH.
For people who do not have a life-threatening HGH deficiency, HGH releasers may be sufficient.
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