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Hormone Replacement Therapy > HGH Deficiency with Age

HGH Keywords: HGH Decline, HGH Deficiency with Age.

HGH Production Blockers

HGH “Blockers” (called Somatostatin) increase with age - some research scientists believe the problem of reduced HGH production with age is rooted with somatostatin (HGH “blockers”), the natural inhibitor (blocker) of HGH Human growth hormone. Somatostatin has been found to increase in population as we age and may act to block the pituitary’s release of HGH Human Growth Hormone at an increased rate of 1% to 2% per year.

When researchers eliminated somatostatin production in old rats, they found growth hormone secretion as great as those of young rats. This might indicate theoretically the Pituitary Gland has a life long ability to produce any healthy level of HGH we might desire.

Pituitary Gland Stimulator's of HGH Decrease with Age

A second theory is that the precursor hormone, growth hormone-releasing hormone (GH-RH), which stimulates hgh human growth hormone release by the pituitary gland, becomes less sensitive to signals from the hypothalamus. Hence, insufficient GH-RH is released resulting in a decrease of growth hormone secretions over time and age. See: HGH Secretagogue

The Body Requires More HGH as we Age or the Body loses its ability to utilize HGH as we age.

A third theory is that, not only does the growth hormone secreted and available to receptors in our cells decrease with aging, but that the cell receptors become more resistant and less responsive to the human growth hormone released by the Pituitary Gland. Under this theory, aging can be viewed as a disease of growth hormone resistance within our cell receptors similar to the way in which diabetes is a disease of insulin resistance.