The thing about human growth hormone is you can look all over the damned Internet and you find wildly conflicting opinions. As with everything these days, HGH is either the Holy Grail or will kill you dead on the spot. The stuff is banned and illegal except for explicit medical use by a professional medical doctor, though, so don’t go using human damned growth hormone on yourself unless a doctor actually gives it to you. Just do not do it. However, there are ways to get the body to naturally produce more HGH as you age; it declines in your body as you grow older. This is one of the reasons some people think it’s a fountain of youth; it is not. Again, taking direct HGH (which is usually given in the form of injections) is dangerous and illegal. Do not do it.
Personally, I myself do think there is some mild benefit from using supplements that help the body naturally produce HGH. The problem with supplements, almost all of them, unfortunately, is that you can’t get enough of the stuff into your body and processed by your liver to actually get the supplement into your system in effective amounts. So don’t go supplement crazy, but yes, you can legally take many, many things that stimulate the release of human growth hormone if you want to live forever (it’s still not proven by science, though, damn you all, that even direct HGH injections do any of that). And taking a supplement that helps the body naturally produce human growth hormone — if taken responsibly, according to directions — is usually not inherently dangerous. I mean, I once saw my late mother overdose on water and have to be taken to the hospital, and I know of other cases of that, so even all you people out there telling other people to “hydrate” all the time need to watch out in terms of safety.
Take spinach, for example (and don’t overdose on it). Spinach contains glutamine, which is very good at temporarily boosting human growth hormone levels. And a lot of it. And spinach is pretty safe. Although, as noted, you can even overdose on spinach. It can happen. But I do know there’s a lot of interest in HGH and so on because, hell, who doesn’t want a fountain of youth? It’s really wishful thinking so far, at least from all the studies. Again, however, a responsible supplement or two that helps your body naturally release and regulate human growth hormone is not necessarily a terrible thing. Okay, so there, you’ve heard my warning on the whole issue. So what can you take to get the body to naturally produce and regulate HGH on its own?
First of all, and I mentioned it — eat a lot of spinach. I did not say to eat insane amounts of it (this especially applies to any and all fellow Americans — we are all very much too much “CONSUME MASS QUANTITIES!”). The glutamine in spinach can naturally boost HGH levels by up to something like 78% — temporarily. And spinach contains natural glutamine, which is what helps you out. Now, glutamine supplements? Yes, they’re okay, and can be found at pretty much any drugstore or supermarket. It’s just that your body doesn’t process the supplement as effectively (or in some cases, that effectively at all) when taken in pure supplement form versus when taken in a natural form like food that simply contains the vitamin or amino acid and so on. If you are going to take the supplement, or supplements of any kind, please do not be an idiot. Take as directed and make sure your supplement is obtained from a trusted, lab-tested source, because a lot of supplements get contaminated with bad things when made — the cheap ones, especially. In other words:
Another helpful supplement for producing HGH (and also for cardiovascular purposes as it increases blood flow) is arginine. Both arginine and glutamine increase resting HGH levels, however. Combining exercise with arginine, for example, can boost the human growth hormone level something like 300-500%.
Arginine is generally most naturally found in meats, seafood, and nuts, among various other sources. Again, there are supplements for it, but please be careful. Just be careful with all of this, is what I’m saying. I am not a medical doctor, and I do not endorse any supplement usage myself. I ain’t selling anything here, in other words. I’m just a UC Berkeley graduate (and not in the Sciences, in the Arts) with too much time on his hands. This is all just basic science and some of it is controversial, though all the links in this post are from trustworthy sources. Double check if you so wish.
