Human growth hormone for children who, do not lack Hgh but are not that tall either?
I asked this question before, but there were no good answers
I need to know if my child should use hgh for growing uses and if it can be a over-the-counter pill.I also don’t know if a hgh supplement or if a hghreleaser is better I have also heard of gigantism occuring because of this.I have also heard of places like GNC selling amino acids vitamins that are suppose to help your growth naturaly.And yes, it is not meant to make people grow taller but my son keeps on asking me about this. People might say it is scary because it affects a gland in our brain, but it does really no harm to our brain.Please respond only if you have some knowledge and are not guessing.
Also, are injections more or less useful AND safe?
Tagged with: amino acids • brain • hgh supplement • occuring • vitamins
Filed under: Supplements To Grow Taller
Like this post? Subscribe to my RSS feed and get loads more!
Two months ago, I had given this answer to your Q.
What were the points you didn’t like or you didn’t understand?
What are your criteria for a "good" answer?
I am posting again the answer (copy and paste) and I am waiting for your feedback. Why do you refer especially to the GNC company?
Are you aware of some studies that they did using aminoacids that could potentially influence growth?
Were they OTC supplements?
Please, let us know and in the mean while have another look to my posting.
Regards
Human growth hormone is administered in the cure of diseases and not in order to make people taller !
Evenmore, it is a prescription only medicine acting in a small gland situated in our brain. I think they are used also for the dopping.
Tell me now : would you ever trust to give your child such a medicine that could potentially interact with the surrounding field?
Then you are talking also about OTC products ; they are food supplements I suppose. I don’t know what this kind of products are, but I have to say that I had a bad experience from food supplements sold via networking marketing, last spring.
Sometimes they are not so innocent as they look like; they can cause allergies.
Why don’t you think to adopt a healthier lifestyle? This will help more effectively in your child’s case. And it is also more natural, it has no adverse effects, as medicines do .
I want to add just this : control obesity! Obese children don’t get tall and there is also the scientific explanation for this.
I think that the answer given previously, be happy with yourself, with what you are was wisdom.
I have to add that:
1st: It is not just growth hormone that controls growth; there are also other hormones, like TSH(thyroid stimulating hormone), ACTH(adrenocorticotropic hormone), LH(luteinizing hormone) and FSH(follicle stimulating hormone).
The small gland situated in our brain, is called pituitary gland.
2nd: You are talking about injections: they are administered just if a GH deficiency is diagnosed; this involves hospitalizing the child because GH is produced in bursts. This means that we can’t have a result from a single measurement of this hormone in a blood sample. We need the result of the measurements of a 24 hour period.
From what you say, your child has not been diagnosed from that.
Your child can find more information , articles suitable for the public and educate himself on the GH issue from the site of the Foundation for human growth. It is a patients organisation.
http://www.hgfound.org/growth.html
Educating himself, he will understand that he really doesn’t need any injections of growth hormone in order to get taller and – hopefully – he will adopt a healthier lifestyle in order to grow well.
Or – if he prefers – he can navigate in the site of wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/growth_hormone
Take care on scams! A big research project has started this year in the US that will elucidate some obscure points in the area of food supplements that are on sale for this purpose.
Katerina
You should probably get advice from an endocrinologist on this subject. Injections would be safe under supervision of a doctor, but it is very expensive.