What is HGH?

We live in a society where many names and terms are compressed in acronyms for ease of use. Unfortunately we are left with an ambiguous collection of letters that are physically unpronounceable and are completely impossible to immediately breakdown to their root meaning without knowing what they were to begin with. HGH is an example of this cryptic scrunching and even when expanded is a little hard to understand. HGH is the acronym for "human growth hormone."

Human growth hormone, secreted by the pituitary gland, is important to both men’s and women’s health because it regulates such processes as calcium retention in bones. Articles in medical journals quoted on women’s and men’s health news sites also state that HGH helps in such processes as muscle growth and the controlling of the rate of protein synthesis at the cellular level. As a result, it also controls the growth of all your internal organs, including the one that allows you to understand this article.

HGH has also been a component in the athletic world’s search for performance optimization. Many athletes the world over reach a part in their training regimen where they have peaked and can do no more to build their body and increase its performance. This is where they usually implement human growth hormone into their diet as the final step of their training. Human growth hormone stimulates their muscle growth and increases muscle performance by altering their cellular protein synthesis and increasing the amount of free ADP/ATP. HGH has also been claimed to decrease the ratio of body fat in those who take the drug.

HGH is not available over the counter. It is a controlled substance that requires a physician's prescription. Be careful if you choose the black market route because there are many copies out there that are more harmful than good. Also remember that prolonged use of the drug can result in such conditions as pituitary gigantism and acromegaly.