Dr. Edmund Chein is head of the Life Extension Institute in Palm Springs, California. Here, he discusses the role the Human Growth Hormone plays in our development, and how it can help to possibly reverse the aging process in individuals – up to a maximum of 20 years.
The Human Growth Hormone (HGH) is a hormone that we have in our bodies that makes us grow tall during adolescence. That is why midgets cannot grow tall since they lack the human growth hormone to grow to a normal height.
There is a wrong belief that after we grow to our full height, we no longer need the growth hormone anymore. That is completely incorrect. The truth is that we need growth hormones throughout our life span, if we can get them and maintain them at a 20-year-old level.
Growth Hormone Drops
Unfortunately, our growth hormone drops the moment we achieve our full height. And that is the problem. As soon as we achieve our full height, we start to get old.
HGH is a hormone made by the E. coli bacteria using a DNA recombinant technique. Pharmaceutical companies make this hormone for us, they are approved by the FDA and are completely safe. In fact, they are the same ones we give to our growth-hormone deficient children to make them grow, except we now give them to adults also to make them get rid of age-related diseases and to increase longevity.
HGH: Made in the Pituitary Gland
The human growth hormone is made in our pituitary glands. It is being secreted into our bodies every day. It activates the telomerase, an enzyme which keeps the telomere region of our DNA long. When that is activated, we can slow and possibly even reverse the aging process up to a maximum of 20 years.
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