Excess of HGH

When it comes to excess of the human growth hormone, the most common disorder is a pituitary tumor caused by somatotroph adenomas. Despite the fact that these adenomas are benign and that they grow very slowly, this health problem will have severe repercussions sometimes in the future.

The somatotroph adenomas grow and this means that they produce more and more human growth hormone. At the beginning, this is the only effect of the pituitary tumor: high levels of the HGH in the sufferer’s body.

You’d probably say that sufferers are lucky persons because they have a large quantity of HGH in the body; but this is not quite so…, because the somatotroph adenomas eventually become large enough to cause severe health problems, such as headaches, impair vision by pressure on the sufferer’s optic nerves or cause deficiency of other pituitary hormones by displacement.

A wide range of other problems may appear, from thickening of the bones of the jaw to reduced sexual function and even to a rare form of diabetes.

But maybe the most obvious symptom (and most rare, hopefully) of HGH excess is when this problem appears in childhood.

When the pituitary gland produces by secretion too much HGH inside children’s bodies, then excessive growth of the body (gigantism) can occur. The disease is traditionally referred to as pituitary gigantism.

In these cases, when the pituitary gland produces too much human growth hormone, surgical removal of the HGH-producing tumors remains the only way of treating this health problem.

The human growth hormone has a major role in our bodies, for our health. Even these strange HGH-secreting tumors prove that this “wonder-hormone” has a really significant impact on our bodies.

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