Human Growth Hormone HGH

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Human Growth Hormone (HGH)

• By Alex Dicpinigaitis
• Chris Metzger

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Who is it for?

• HGH is a prescription drug and is used only in
  extreme circumstances. While a lot of body
  builders would use this to increase their bench
  here is who it is really for
• Children with short stature
• Children with kidney failure
• Muscle wasting associated with HIV and Aids.

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What are the Benefits?

• Increase in bone density
• Increase muscle mass
• Decrease body fat
• Bolster the hearts ability to contract
• Improve mood and motivation
• Increase exercise capacity

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What does it look like?
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What does the molecule look like?
It is composed of 191 amino acids and a molecular
weight of 22 124 Daltons.
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How can we hear about it?

• Some names for Human Growth Hormone are
• HGH
• Growth Hormone
• Peptide hormone

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Is it natural?

• Our bodies naturally secrete growth hormone, but
  at around age 40 your pituitary gland slows down
  when secreting this particular hormone, resulting
  in more aging symptoms.
• Some people would like to use HGH as an
  anti-aging agent.
• Others use it to keep there muscles growing.

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Stimulant

• HGH is classified as a stimulant.
• It provides the power and energy needed to build
  muscle.

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Produced?

• HGH was, up until around 1985, collected from
  dead bodies in Africa.
• Thousands of dead brain cells for a few drops of
  HGH.
• Used to help stunted growth for children.
• Today Gene Splicing is used in labs allowing gene
  cloning of amino acids needed to produce HGH.

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Side-Effects

• Constant injections of this hormone result in a
  lazy pituitary gland, resulting in less natural
  production of the hormone.
• Fluid retention
• Carpal tunnel
• Painful joints
• Liver damage

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Overdose

• By injecting HGH you are already overdosing your
  body with more than it needs of this hormone.
• There are no details as to symptoms of an
  overdose, ironically those who overdose show a
  decrease in cancer cells in 6 years.

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How to get HGH in you.

• HGH is normally injected, its about 350,000
  nanograms of the hormone into your body. Though
  your body only needs 50,000. It is traditionally
  injected all at once but a new version of this
  hormone is going for a 2x a day method.

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Psychological effects

• HGH has proven to be a stress reliever and is
  shown to help recover memories and monitor
  emotions based on higher quality of sleep.
• It does however result in high dependency.

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Physical Effects

• With experiments created with a nasal spray of
  HGH, doctor says there is low physical dependency
  or very moderate.

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HGH Concern?

• It has been recently moved up to a schedule III
  drug.
• Schedule III means it has a medical use in
  treatment in USA.
• Low physical dependency and high psychological
  dependency.

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Medical Value

• It has proven many times that this is used for
  stunted growth, growing deficiencies in children
  and other problems related to development.

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Stats

• After 3 months of usage
• Total weight gain 18lbs
• 18.3 lean mass gain
• Total fat loss 2-3lbs

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HGH Penalties

• It has been classified as performance enhancing
  drug and can be dealt with by the commissioner of
  whichever sport is used in.
• Intent to sell HGH is a 5-year felony.

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How to test for it

• Enzyme Immunoassay test
• They uses an antibody of the polypeptide when
  incubated in a solution for 60minutes it turns
  blue if HGH is present.

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Interesting Facts

• We found the usage of HGH into children to help
  them grow and help with bone density to be
  interesting because we only know it as a
  performance enhancer.
• We were interested to learn about the penalties
  for intent to sell and for usage.

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Case Study

• Cardinals outfielder Rick Ankiel was linked to
  an investigation of steroid/HGH hunt in athletes.
  
• Reported that he got a 12 month supply of HGH.
• Article goes into more on steroids and HGH cases
  in athletes.

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