Dr.Rudman found that Human Growth Hormone given to twenty-six elderly men re-grew the livers, spleens, and muscles that had shrunken with age back to their youthful sizes.Improved muscle strength, he pointed out, could make the difference between someone’s being on his feet or being confined to a wheelchair, between being spoon-fed or cooking a meal, between living independently or living in a nursing home.

“The overall deterioration of the body that comes with growing old is not inevitable,” he concluded. “We now realize that some aspects of it can be prevented or reversed.” Dr.Rudman’s landmark discovery opened the floodgates to the point that there are now thousands of studies in the world medical literature documenting the benefits of growth hormone therapy.

The National Institute on Aging has funded a multimillion-dollar effort in nine medical centers that will run for five years to test whether human growth hormone and other trophic factors–defined as substances that promote growth or maintenance of tissues–can reverse or retard the aging process. In 1992 medical researchers at Stanford University stated, “It is possible that physiologic growth hormone replacement might reverse or prevent some of the ‘inevitable’ sequelae of aging.”

But many people are not waiting for the results of these studies. In US and abroad, doctors at dozens of clinics are treating thousands of old and middle-aged people who wish to erase the effects of aging. Hundreds of case histories have now become available, some of which you will read about in the coming chapters.

The FDA has just approved HGH for use in adults. Until now the only indication had been for treatment of children who failed to grow due to lack of growth hormone. The adult indication is for somatotrophin (growth hormone) deficiency syndrome (SDS). Signs of SDS include decreased physical mobility, socialization and energy levels, along with a greater risk of cardiovascular disease and lower life expectancy.

Read more about Human Growth hormone (hgh) on these websites:

• human Growth Hormone treatment @ Wikipedia
• about Growth Hormone @ Colostate.edu
• Growth Hormone @ Medline Plus Encyclopedia