HGH Levels And Age, Adult Growth Hormone Deficiency

Growth hormone levels are the highest in childhood when the body develops. High HGH levels during this period facilitate muscle, skeletal and hormonal development.

After peaking in the first year of a person’s life, growth hormone levels gradually decline. It’s normal as a grown person doesn’t need as much growth hormone. But as a person ages and the HGH levels drop, it becomes a problem that starts to affect a person’s quality of life.

Many signs of aging are the result of GH levels declining. For instance, wrinkles, age spots and skin dryness are the result of a low production of collagen and elastin – the proteins that make up the skin. And as we have
mentioned, the production of those two proteins is one of the primary HGH functions.

The same applies to body composition – growth hormone both affects muscle protein and fat metabolism.

While there are other factors in play here, studies show that HGH therapy can significantly slow the aging process and even reverse it, especially when it comes to appearance, although further research still needs to be done.

Although HGH replacement therapy has been well researched and proved to increase health and wellbeing among GH-deficient people, it is still not widely accepted among healthcare professionals.

Currently, the growth hormone usage among adults is limited primarily to patients diagnosed with GH deficiency.

Although signs of low HGH are very common among 40-50+ year citizens, only 1 out of 100,000 adults is diagnosed with GH deficiency every year leaving millions of Americans out of the possibility to get HGH prescribed and covered by insurance.

SIGNS OF LOW HGH

Sadly, many of these symptoms are considered to be normal for older people and doctors think that they are not important enough to require treatment. But living a low-quality life isn’t normal, especially if you have the option to significantly reduce those symptoms with HGH
therapy.

Luckily, there are healthcare providers working in the field
of hormonal health – both offline and online through telemedicine. But the sad truth is that even if you get prescribed growth hormone replacement therapy, it won’t be covered by your insurance in most cases. Unfortunately, HGH replacement is currently considered to be an off-label use of growth hormone and so you have to pay for it
out of pocket.

The US retail price for the most prescribed HGH brand Norditropin is $50/1 IU. At 2 IU HGH replacement dosage is $100/day or 3000/month, which is out of reach for most people.

Fixing this unfair situation is what we built our business on. We source pharma-grade HGH from overseas pharmacies (primarily in Turkey), where all medications are much more affordable. It allows us to offer 10 times
lower prices for the same brands’ HGH products – by Novo Nordisk, Genotropin by Pfizer, Omnitrope by Sandoz, Saizen by Merck.

How To Know If You Are HGH-Deficient?

There are some tests for measuring HGH levels. They are complicated by the pulsatile manner of HGH secretion. The most common tests include GH blood serum tests and IGF-1 levels. The HGH serum test measures the level of growth hormone itself while the IGF-1 test measures a much more stable level of insulin-like growth factor -1. IGF-1 is a byproduct of growth hormone metabolizing in the liver. Many effects of HGH are mediated through IGF-1, especially on skeletal muscle growth. The results of the tests will show your levels in comparison to the referent range of people of your age and sex. However, being even on top of the reference range doesn’t
mean you have an optimal level of growth hormone, as reference ranges are created based on everyone’s statistics, not just those of the healthy, good-looking ones most people aim to be. Average results for IGF-1 levels are in order to feel and look younger, you might need to make your IGF-1 levels close to those of individuals in their 20s and 30s.