Growth hormone treatments (and other hormone therapies) have a legitimate use in patients suffering excessively low hormone levels due to one or another cause. They have also long been overhyped and aggressively marketed by the anti-aging medicine community, not a field noted for its adherence to standards of truth and scientific accuracy. At the same time, the scientific evidence has consistently shown that <a href="https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2018/05/a-review-of-growth-hormone-in-aging/"<aging is accelerated by higher levels of growth hormone. Tall people exhibit a modestly greater degree of age-related disease and mortality, for example, while the longest-l…
The Present Understanding of the Relationship Between Growth Hormone and Longevity
Growth hormone treatments (and other hormone therapies) have a legitimate use in patients suffering excessively low hormone levels due to one or another cause. They have also long been overhyped and aggressively marketed by the anti-aging medicine community, not a field noted for its adherence to standards of truth and scientific accuracy. At the same time, the scientific evidence has consistently shown that <a href="https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2018/05/a-review-of-growth-hormone-in-aging/"<aging is accelerated by higher levels of growth hormone. Tall people exhibit a modestly greater degree of age-related disease and mortality, for example, while the longest-l…