In 1990, a scientist at the Medical College of Wisconsin named Daniel Rudman published a study that gave birth to the modern anti-aging movement. Rudman's paper, which was published in the New England Journal of Medicine showed that 12 men who were given injections of human growth hormone (HGH) lost 14 percent of their body fat and increased their lean body mass -- including muscle -- by 9 percent. HGH, which is mostly used to help short children grow, became the go-to drug for perfectly healthy, aging people who were in search of the fountain of youth.
Now, one of Rudman's closest friends is throwing cold water on the theory that HGH should be embraced as an anti-aging elixir. St. Louis University professor, John E. Morley, co-published a study in a recent edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences showing that inhibiting the body's production of growth hormone -- rather than increasing it -- extends life. "Large numbers of people are taking growth hormone to rejuvenate themselves," says Morley, director of the divisions of geriatric medicine and endocrinology at Saint Louis University School of Medicine. "Our take-home message is that no one should take growth hormones."
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The main physiological action of Growth Hormone is to promote growth and development, and its receptors is distributed in various tissues all over the body.
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