A Small Bit of History about HGH Treatment
An entire anthology could probably be written about the history of HGH treatments. This is just a very short intro.
It is presented to you to provide you a brief introduction to human growth hormone treatments. It is written to help you judge the legitimacy of this particular method of health improvement.
This info is being provided, in the event you wonder if you are a candidate to receive this type of hormone replacement therapy. It can also alert you to concerns that have been addressed throughout history.
The Historical Highlights
Before synthetic versions of HGH became popular "the real thing" was taken from the pancreases of pigs and cows. This GH extraction was originally intended for use in the treatment of Type I diabetes.
However, this treatment did not work in humans. It has something do with the difference in structure between the animal and the human HGH treatment.
Other attempts at human growth extraction were made in the 1950s. There was a case in which Muarice Raben managed to purify enough human GH that had been extracted from pituitary glands.
The end result was positive, in that this supply of HGH was used to treat a boy deficient of human growth hormone. This trend continued for awhile and pituitary glands were collected from humans after autopsies for quite awhile.
However, this process was quite grueling. Not many families could handle this process of treating the child. Not only was that but also the use of purified cadaver HGH was very limited.
Several children were treated though and many with some great success. This went on throughout the 1950s to the 1980s, with a majority of the treatments taking place between 1963 and 1985.
However, throughout the years another issue was brought to the attention of the public. It was learned that transfer of human growth hormone could cause Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease, which can be fatal. This disease slowly causes the brain to degenerate.
Therefore, it seemed fitting to being taking the purification of human growth hormone extractions from the pituitary gland more seriously. Precautionary measures were greatly heightened.
To make matters worse there was an increased shortage of the supply of this natural GH for use in medical treatments. Therefore, eventually measures were taken to engineer a lab-created synthesis of it.
This new form of treatment is known as rGH. It is created by mixing human genes with bacteria. This allows for production of an unlimited amount of protein.