BRIEF HISTORY OF HGH

Growth Hormone was first observed in the 1920's, but not until the 1950's were its benefits first discovered.  Researchers began administrating it to children with growing deficiencies and found that it promoted a normal pattern of development.  This was thrilling, of course, but the drawback was acquiring a supply.  The only source for the hormone was extracting it from the pituitary gland of human cadavers, each of which only yielded a few drops.  So to obtain enough for just a single injection was time consuming and very expensive.

Then in 1985 a biotech company, Genentech, which had earlier cloned the human gene for insulin, began to market a genetically engineered (recombinant) Growth Hormone.   A short while later in 1987 Eli Lilly did the same.  Coinciding with this breakthrough, a great deal of research was being conducted in the area of anti-aging.  After thirty years of experience with both children and adults deficient in Growth Hormone, there were no significant side effects, and researchers started giving HGH to healthy adults.  The results were phenomenal.  In study after study, the participants were losing body fat, gaining lean muscle mass, having sexual function restored, gaining strength and stamina, increasing energy levels, reducing wrinkled skin, thickening and even re-growing hair, lowering blood pressure, balancing cholesterol, and the list goes on.  But even with the new recombinant Growth Hormone, the cost of the injections was $12, 000.00 to $30,000.00 a year and so it remained unavailable to most people.  Then in late 1996, HGH was formulated into a dietary food supplement - an oral spray with all of the benefits of the injections.  It was made public in mid-1998 and can now be purchased in a form that is easily administered and at a price everyone can afford.