Human Growth Hormone Abuse
How should we define human growth hormone abuse? A dictionary definition of abuse might be “to use wrongly,” or “make incorrect use of.” For the ordinary person, drug abuse means using drugs for some form of personal gratification – the drugs are often illegal or at least illegally obtained, and the use to which they are put is something other than the standard use defined by the medical community. For human growth hormone (HGH), there are other implications beyond standard medical practice.
What is human growth hormone abuse in the elderly or aging population? The hormone is given to seniors because it’s thought that raising hormone levels will result in reversing the aging process by decades. Proponents claim that it produces increases in muscle and strength, decreases in body fat, increases in energy, and younger looking skin. The problem is that the body of scientific evidence doesn’t support these claims to…
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