HGH Injections

Using hgh injections (an “exogenous hormone”) are considered a direct hormonal replacement therapy. You are not supplementing or augmenting your natural cyclical production of growth hormone, you are replacing it.

Exogenous hormones come from outside the body.

Medical Note: If you decide to use injections, use only physiological doses under the supervision of a physician.

The FDA considers hgh injections a drug and therefore requires a doctor’s supervision and prescription.

Anabolic steroids, insulin, and injected human growth hormone are all examples of exogenous hormones. The main and most challenging problem with exogenous hormones stem from the fact that your body cannot control them.

All your body can do to counteract the incoming hormone is to decrease or shut-off the internal (endogenous) production of that particular hormone. These natural counter-regulatory mechanisms are called feedback loops. If there is still too much of the hormone floating around after the body shuts-off internal production, a very unhealthy situation is created.

No matter how carefully a exogenous hormone is administered, it cannot precisely mimic the subtleties of the body’s natural hormonal cycles. In the case of growth hormones–when you exceed the body’s natural hormonal levels, you can upset your entire endocrine system, with potentially serious consequences.

Dr. Daniel Rudman, in his original 1998 study, used very high doses of human growth hormone with subsequent serious side effects. In 1994 Dr. Chein and Dr. Terry lowered the doses significantly and administered them much more frequently, theoretically reducing the side effects.

More than half of Dr. Rudman’s subjects dropped out of the experiment within a year due to side effects. Carpel tunnel syndrome, fluid retention, high blood pressure, joint pain, hyperglycemia, and pancreatitis are some of the side effects associated with injected growth hormone.

Dr. Rudman was administering 16 units of human growth hormone per week! That is approximately four times the amount needed to achieve substantial improvement in the average 65 year-old.

In all fairness, most side effects happen when doses exceed the amount the body naturally produces, which in medicine, is called pharmacolgical doses.

The opposite approach is to give physiological doses, or amounts any healthy human body would normally produce for itself.

Even at physiological doses (4 units per week) there are several side effects that occasionally occur:

- edema (water retention)
- carpel tunnel syndrome
- hypertension
- increased blood glucose levels

Recent studies show that the HGH dose needed to produce optimum benefits is between 1 and 2 units each day, depending on body size. One to 1