HGH Anti Ageing

After Dr. Rudman’s study was published in 1990, HGH hormone is being sold as an anti ageing product and it has developed into a multi million dollar industry in the United States. Many web sites are offering these products claiming that such a product would lower cholesterol level, reduce wrinkles, improve mental function and many other benefits.

But, a team of researchers has found out that a law was passed in the Congress in 1990, which makes it illegal to use Human Growth Hormone that is off level. Therefore, the practice of increasingly prescribing these drugs as anti ageing agent becomes invalid by this finding. Dr. Jay Olshansky, professor of epidemiology at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health, undertook this study as co-author, and was published in the October 26, 2005 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Human Growth Hormone, which is produced naturally in human body, stimulates growth in children. And Food and Drug Administration approve this hormone for the treatment of children whose growth is stunted due to HGH deficiency, and for adults who have developed tumors on the pituitary gland, and for HIV/AIDS patients suffering from muscle wasting disease.

According to this study, rather than an anti ageing treatment, HGH treatment is actually dangerous when applied on healthy people.

Initial clinical trials have indicated that such a treatment could cause a number of problems, like diabetes, carpel tunnel syndrome and an increased risk of cancer. In fact, in a study made on animals, it has been found that such a treatment reduces the longevity of the animal instead of increasing it.

The study also states that no long-term trial has been held to find out the anti ageing property of such a treatment.

These researchers found out these provisions that forbids the use of HGH treatment to reverse ageing problems while studying the modifications made to the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act in 1988 and 1990.

The Act states that any person who knowingly distributes or possesses HGH with the intent of distributing the same for use on any person for treatment of any disease or any other medical condition that has not been authorized by the Secretary of Health and Human Services, would be considered to be guilty of an offense that would attract prison sentence for not more than five years. The law also provides for additional fines.

The lawyers of American Medical Association who reviewed the law also agreed with this conclusion.

Therefore, everybody should keep this in mind before considering HGH treatment as an anti ageing treatment.