Recently, body building enthusiasts have set their sights on human growth hormone treatment to promote their muscle mass to superior levels. The inherent trait of the hormone treatment helps develop muscles faster than conventional means; and apparently safer (in minimal or prescribed dosages) than using other drugs like anabolic steroids, insulin shots and other performance enhancing medications.
Human growth hormone treatments also help in creating denser bone structures, and thereby strengthening a person’s skeletal framework. Denser bones mean that the person can sustain greater weight per pound, an essential element for power lifters and the like. Because the body can now sustain greater weight and the human growth hormone treatments help stimulate muscle development, the increase in the bulk of a person’s musculature becomes evident within a few months’ use. Of course, muscles don’t grow in bulk on their own, but body builders are using this form of “treatment” to slightly speed up the muscle-sculpting process. Denser bones also mean that the athlete taking these treatments can run faster, can jump higher and can train longer.
Another benefit to using human growth hormones in body sculpting and physical training is that unwanted pounds are effortlessly shed. The hormones actually make the person’s metabolism work faster, transforming calories into much needed muscle building proteins. Faster metabolism also means that there is a faster exchange of calorie burn-off providing much needed energy for endurance and stamina training. Water retention in the body is also cut down dramatically by using these treatments, making the human body less flabby and leaner. It’s no wonder then that body building enthusiasts prefer the human growth hormone treatment as the “new form” of health supplement.
However, medical practitioners caution against the unsupervised usage of these human growth hormones treatments. There are many dangers when it comes to unsupervised or self-medicated ingestion or injection of any kind of supplements and drugs.
For one thing, there are many body building supplements floating around in the e-markets of the Internet. Many of them are actually too dangerous to use. Some of those that are sold cheap via e-stores are actually a cocktail of drugs whose primary component is substance called hCG or human Chorionic Gonadotropin: a fertility drug issued specifically for women via injection which helps the individual in question to release egg cells for fertilization. Research show that Low dosages of hCG are not dangerous. However, when this drug is injected into men, it causes the male body to shut down its own production of testosterone, which might eventually lead to testicular atrophy. Medical practitioners are therefore advocating prescription based human growth hormone treatments and that dosages are strictly regulated.
Also, it is important that the medical practitioners know what specific drug or additional dietary supplements the body builder (or anyone for that matter) is taking at the moment. Some drugs and supplements may actually cause adverse reactions to the human growth hormone injection. People who have diabetes, and may be taking insulin shots are not advised to take human growth hormone treatments because of the insulin.
Incorrect dosages of human growth hormone treatments can also lead to overproduction of hormones in the body: a condition which is called acromegaly. This condition forces the pituitary gland to produce a lot of hormones that can affect height, motor movement and bodily coordination.