Human Growth Factors
Human growth hormone (GH) is a substance that controls your body’s growth. GH is made by the pituitary gland, located at the base of the brain. GH helps children grow taller (also called linear growth), increases muscle mass, and decreases body fat.
Role of HGH(IgF) in Brain.
• “The fall in the Growth Hormone level with age –brain cells are Shrinking. It also protect brain cells from injury and Oxygen deprivation such as Stroke.”
ROLE OF HGH/IGF
Insulin-like growth factor (IGF), formerly called somatomedin, any of several peptide hormones that function primarily to stimulate growth but that also possess some ability to decrease blood glucose levels.
What is a good IGF 1 level?
The median serum IGF-I level was 374.1 ng/ml at the age of 18. The serum IGF-I level decreased to 180.1 ng/ml at the age of 35–39, which is 48.1% of that at age 18, and further decreased to 92.7 ng/ml at ages older than 70, which is approximately 24.8% of that at age 18.
Growth Factors Discovered By-Rita Levi-Montalcini –Nobel prize winner !
