WHAT IS HGH OR HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE?
Human Growth hormone (hGH) is a protein-based peptide hormone, which stimulates growth, cell reproduction and regeneration in humans. Human growth hormone is a a 191-amino acid, single-chain polypeptide that is synthesized, stored, and secreted by the somatotroph cells within the pituitary gland.
'Somatotropin' refers to growth hormone produced naturally be the human pituitary gland. 'Somatropin' refers to genetically engineered growth hormone produced in a laboratory using recombinant DNA technology and is abbreviated "HGH".
Human growth hormone or HGH is a prescription drug used to treat children's growth disorders and very limited use in the treatment of other disorders when such treatment is expressly approved by the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
It is illegal and a felony under federal law for a physician to prescribe or distribute HGH for the purpose of anti-aging, enhancing athletic performance, building lean muscle mass, reducing body fat, to accelerate the recovery of a patient from surgery or injury, or to treat adult growth hormone deficiency in a healthy adult.
The U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services has approved the medical use of HGH (Somatropin), the synthetic, genetically engineered human growth hormone produced in a laboratory using recombinant DNA technology, for the following uses only:
- Treatment of short stature in children;
- Treatment of AIDS wasting; and,
- Treatment of Adult Growth Hormone Deficiency where the cause of such deficiency is a diagnosed pituitary disease or disorder evidenced by objective medical laboratory diagnostic testing.
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