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can human growth hormone (HGH) increase height?

im 21, will this work for me?

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1. yes
2. Yes, but you have to have certain criteria and is not given to adults since their growth plates are sealed. Just be satisfied with the height you are...........you can still have a big heart and that is what is important.
3. Yes, HGH was develped to cure dwarfism in young children. It will promote growth in children. In adults, it promotes muscle growth and regeneration. It will help you heal from injury quicker. It is being abused by the sports community because it is undetectable by drug screening.
4. Yes, if you take it while you are young and still growing.
5. yes
6. Growth hormone (GH) is also called somatotropin (British: somatotrophin). The human form of growth hormone is known as human growth hormone, or hGH (similarly ovine growth hormone is abbreviated oGH). GH can refer either to the natural hormone produced by the pituitary (somatotropin), or biosynthetic GH for therapy (somatropin). HGH is an abbreviation sometimes used for counterfeit or fake "growth hormone" products. See HGH controversies for a fuller discussion of the origins and changing usages of HGH. Cadaver growth hormone is the unappetizing term for GH extracted from human pituitary glands between 1960 and 1985 for therapy of deficient children. In the U.S., cadaver GH is also referred to as NPA growth hormone (National Pituitary Agency). In 1985 it was associated with the development of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, and was withdrawn from use. rhGH refers to recombinant human growth hormone (somatropin). It contains the identical amino acid sequence of human GH and was for a time referred to as "natural sequence" GH. It is the only synthetic GH commercially available for human use today. Coincidentally, rhGH also refers to rhesus monkey GH, using the accepted naming convention. Rhesus growth hormone was never used by physicians to treat human patients, but rhesus GH was part of the lore of the underground anabolic steroid community in those years and fraudulent versions may have been bought and sold in gyms. met-GH refers to methionyl-growth hormone. This was the first recombinant GH product marketed (Protropin by Genentech). It had the same amino acid sequence as human GH with an extra methionine at the end of the chain to facilitate the manufacturing process. It was discontinued in the late 1990s. rBST refers to recombinant bovine somatropin (cow growth hormone), or more properly, recombinant bovine GH (rbGH). But, there are also risks, known risks of GH are few and rare. Few reasonable parents or physicians would incur a high risk of harm to a child to add a few inches to height. Most of the complications have been reported in children over 10 years of age or in adults. Though rare, the following harmful side effects have been reported during GH treatment often enough to be assumed noncoincidental. Slipped capital femoral epiphysis (SCFE) causes hip pain due to separation of the head of the femur from the shaft. Incidence in GH-treated children may be about 1 in 1000. SCFE usually requires casting or surgical pinning to reverse. Pseudotumor cerebri (also known as benign intracranial hypertension) is manifested by severe headache, papilledema, nausea, and visual changes. Incidence is also perhaps 1 in 1000. All cases have been reversed, usually by temporary discontinuation or reduced dose of the GH. Fluid retention and edema in early months of treatment is rare in children but more common and occasionally more severe in adults. It typically disappears with temporary interruption of treatment. Pancreatitis has been reported in a few patients receiving GH, but a causal relationship seemed plausible in only a couple. Joint pains are occasionally experienced by children or adults being treated with GH. Carpal tunnel syndrome has also occurred in adults being treated with GH, presumably due to a combination of tissue growth and fluid retention causing pressure on the tightly confined nerves and tendons of the wrists. A small but controlled study of GH given to severely ill adults in an intensive care unit setting for the purpose of increasing strength and reducing the muscle wasting of critical illness showed a higher mortality rate for the patients who received GH. The reason is unknown, but GH is now rarely used in ICU patients without severe deficiency. For More go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HGH_controversies
7. Its a nautual hormone thats released pre-adolesents about 9-12years, the synthetic hormone will start this process, used mostly for those that are very slow to reach this stage say not until they are 14 or 15. Its used so they can grow so they are matched with peers of the same age. Will it make you taller than you would have been normally, no. Your DNA given to you by your parents and to some degree your nutrition and stress level during your growth spurt detremines the height you will become. The growth hormone will not work if you have finished growing, say after 20years of age.
8. It will make your hands and bottom jaw bigger. Look up acromegaly on webmd or uptodate.
9. no your growth plates are likely closed by now so you wont get taller, and its dangerous and illegal to dose yourself with HGH as it can cause quite a few negative side effects (mainly acromegaly as someone already said) if you take too much
10. NO. HGH only will work for muscle growth and repair. Your bones have done all the growing your going to do. If you take the synthetic the harm is going to outweigh the good. Your body has already cut its production of HGH. If you begin to inject it then your body is going to see the overload and stop producing anything. Its the same thing that happens to men on steroids, the body sees the amount of testosterone in the system and assumes that its producing too much and stops production in an attempt to compensate. Leave well enough alone, Napoleon (not Dynamite) has been know to people long after his death, and he didn't need HGH.