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Posted By Dr Ted
Your blood naturally makes growth hormone to help jumpstars growing during your early years and to help maintain your muscle tissues and innerorgans throughout your life. Beginning in your 30s, your primary pituitary gland — the olive-sized structure at the base of your brain where growth hormone is made — slowly reduces the amount of the hormone it produces.
Some professors believe the falling level of human growth hormone is responsible for the frailty that typically comes with age. And that's prompted some folks who are worried about growing old turn to injections of synthetic human growth hormone (HGH) to stave off getting ol. But there's little evidence to suggest human growth hormone is the Fountain of Youth.
Based on early studies, many health care providers used to believe that HRT might help reduce the risk of heart disease and bone fractures caused by, in addition to treating menopausal symptoms. The Women's Health Initiative (WHI) study led health care providers to revise their recommendations regarding HRT.
The information below includes detailed information from the WHI study about each risk. A summary follows at the end.The study was partly intended to examine the health benefits and the risks of hormone replacement therapy, including the risk of developing breast cancer, heart attacks, strokes, and blood clots. It showed that women who took estrogen with or without the hormone progesterone for 5 or more years had an increased risk for stroke, heart disease, breast cancer, and blood clots.
Posted by Roger L.
I am looking for information on Human Growth Hormone to help my child who is too short I think. I took him to the pediatric endocrinologist
Larry P., Florida 12-11-08
I found ths article about human growth hormone.,
Your body naturally makes growth hormone to help fuel growth during your childhood and to help maintain your tissues and organs throughout your life. Beginning in your 40s, your pituitary gland — the pea-sized structure at the base of your brain where growth hormone is made — slowly reduces the amount of the hormone it produces.
Some people believe the dwindling level of growth hormone is responsible for the frailty that typically comes with getting older. And that's prompted some who are concerned about growing old and losing independence to turn to injections of synthetic human growth hormone (HGH) to stave off the realities of old age. But there's little evidence to suggest human growth hormone is the Fountain of Youth.
Posted By Dr Ted
ynthetic human growth hormone is available only by prescription and is administered through an intramuscular injection. It's currently approved to treat adults with true growth hormone deficiency — not the expected decline in growth hormone due to aging. Growth hormone deficiency can be caused by pituitary tumors and radiation or surgery to the pituitary gland, among other causes.
Human growth hormone is also approved for: Sex tharapy on senor citizens who want to have sex but are having trouble
- Children with short stature
- Children with kidney failure
- Children with Prader-Willi syndrome
- Children with Turner's syndrome
- Muscle wasting associated with AIDS and HIV
Studies of adults with growth hormone deficiencies show that injections of human growth hormone can:
- Increase bone testing density
- large muscle mass
- lose lots of fat
- tie up the heart's ability to contract
- Improve good mood and motivation
- Increase exercise timing capacity
Because of those results, some people believe that synthetic human growth hormone can help healthy older adults who have naturally low levels of growth hormone regain some of their youth and vitality.
Kate J. Utah 12-12-08
I found this article about hgh and adrenals
Treatment with hGH does not cause adrenal crisis, but because a number of people lacking growth hormone also lack ACTH, adrenal crisis has occurred in some people who were treated with hGH. In earlier updates we have talked about how adrenal crisis can be prevented, but people continue to die from adrenal crisis, which is brought on by lack of cortisol. These deaths can be prevented. Please talk to your doctor about whether you are at risk for adrenal crisis.
Posted By Gerald Hosinger
12-4-2008
I need information about hgh for children, A male 11 years old is only 4' tall should he be taking growth hormone?
Posted By Carington
I found this article by Fange and Mackler, 12 -09 -2008
Yes, treatment can increase a child's final height. Injections of recombinant human growth hormone (rGH) at least 3 times a week for 4 to 6 years add 3.7 to 7.5 cm to final height in children between 8 and 16 years of age with idiopathic short stature (strength of recommendation [SOR]: 2 small, low-quality, randomized controlled trials [RCTs]). This population comprises children who are otherwise physically and developmentally normal with a height standard deviation score (SDS) of <or=-2.0--comparable to the bottom 2.5% percentile of height--and an adequate response to growth hormone stimulation testing.
PMID: 18786336 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Posted By Ronald Ergins , Aug 8, 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In children and adolescents with stunted growth related to the inflammatory bowel condition called Crohn's disease, growth hormone shots may fuel a growth spurt and improve bone mineralization and body composition, investigators in the US report.
Previous trials of growth hormone treatment in this population have yielded conflicting results, Dr. Melvin B. Heyman and colleagues note in The Journal of Pediatrics.
For 1 year, Heyman, at the University of California San Francisco, and his team treated 10 patients, between 4 and 19 years old, with daily shots of growth hormone.
Although body mass index did not change significantly, average percent body fat decreased with growth hormone shots, indicating an increase in lean body mass. Healthy gains in bone mineralization at the lumbar spine were also recorded.
The investigators note that calcium and vitamin D supplementation does not appear to affect the reduced bone mineral content observed in children with Crohn's disease, and bisphosphonates are being considered as an option. The current findings, however, suggest that "growth hormone may be a viable alternative to these other therapies."
With growth hormone, average height velocity increased from 3.00 centimeters per year at the outset to 8.32 centimeters per year after 1 year of treatment -- a significant change.
The investigators emphasize that while these results are promising, well-controlled, long-term studies are needed "before growth hormone can be recommended to treat growth impairment in pediatric patients with Crohn's disease."
SOURCE: The Journal of Pediatrics, November 2008.
Posted By Tina Refubi 7-27-2008
I found this article on pain
Fibromyalgia makes you feel tired and causes muscle pain and "tender points." Tender points are places on the neck, shoulders, back, hips, arms or legs that hurt when touched. People with fibromyalgia may have other symptoms, such as trouble sleeping, morning stiffness, headaches, and problems with thinking and memory, sometimes called "fibro fog."
No one knows what causes fibromyalgia. Anyone can get it, but it is most common in middle-aged women. People with rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune diseases are particularly likely to develop fibromyalgia. There is no cure for fibromyalgia, but medicines can help you manage your symptoms. Getting enough sleep and exercising may also help.
Posted By Tarrence U.
6-3-2008
I am losing my hair to fast, whay is this disease may be will hgh help cure this?
May-2-2008 Posted By Ellen Sarot
Alopecia areata is not a life-threatening disease. It does not cause any physical pain, and people with the condition are generally healthy otherwise. But for most people, a disease that unpredictably affects their appearance the way alopecia areata does is a serious matter.
The effects of alopecia areata are primarily socially and emotionally disturbing. In alopecia universalis, however, loss of eyelashes and eyebrows and hair in the nose and ears can make the person more vulnerable to dust, germs, and foreign particles entering the eyes, nose, and ears.
Alopecia areata often occurs in people whose family members have other autoimmune diseases, such as diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, thyroid disease, systemic lupus erythematosus, pernicious anemia, or Addison's disease. People who have alopecia areata do not usually have other autoimmune diseases, but they do have a higher occurrence of thyroid disease, atopic eczema, nasal allergies, and asthma.
