HGH has been tested and proven to be a safe and effective treatment for several different conditions that result from having a deficiency of this vital hormone. At the present time, the only officially recognized and approved method of treatment using HGH is injection by a licensed physician. This is because injection is the only viable method of introducing HGH into the body.

There are many HGH supplements on the market that claim to raise the levels of HGH in the blood. Most, if not all of these supplements are misrepresenting themselves in some manner. While technically legal, these misrepresentations can be misleading at best to dangerous to one’s health at worst.

Many of the supplements claim to contain HGH as an ingredient. Medical science has proven that the only way to obtain any benefit from HGH is via injection. The acid in our stomachs breaks down the protein that makes up HGH before it can be absorbed by the body. Oral sprays are not absorbed properly and pills or tablets have no value.

There is a potential problem with HGH supplements taken orally that contain the hormone. The source of the hormone is questionable at best. In many cases, if it is present, it is derived from pituitary glands of cadavers. Medical science got away from the use of cadaver HGH because of the potential to carry a viral infection that turned up in many of the young people treated for HGH deficiency.

Most supplements do not actually claim to contain HGH. Instead, they claim to raise levels of the hormone in the bloodstream. The method used to do this goes by several different names. The effect is that these supplements contain proteins that have been linked to an increase in production of HGH. The method of measurement is, however, not accurate.

These supplements claim to raise levels of HGH because of a measured increase in IGF, insulin growth factor. The problem with this measurement is that drinking a soda or eating a candy bar will result in an increase in IGF with no corresponding increase in HGH.

All of these supplements point to research that backs up their claims about the health benefits of HGH. This research is very real, but in all cases, it used HGH in injectable form administered by licensed medical personnel in controlled conditions. No supplements have ever been proven by independent clinical research to raise HGH levels or to have the same effects on one’s health.

There are, however, side effects associated with many of these supplements that can be hazardous to a person’s health. In many cases, joint pain was reported that could point to a possible overdose of HGH. Of course, there are many other proteins that can cause this pain as well. Liver damage has been reported. An increased incidence of diabetes and other health problems have been reported by those using these supplements.

HGH supplements in general have no scientific basis for the claims they make about reversing the aging process. While it is true that HGH has been linked to improvements in conditions normally associated with aging, the clinical trials that yielded those results were performed using injected HGH with doctors’ prescriptions.

In addition, the possibility exists that if these supplements do raise the levels of HGH in the body, that small cancers that have not been diagnosed yet could be accelerated. If supplementation yielded a raise in HGH levels above the normal level for the human body, a condition known as acromegaly could occur, leading to severe muscle and joint damage as well as deformity of the bones.