The Body's Wonderful Growth Factors

IGF-1, IGF-2, Other Growth Factors - the Key to Successful Anti-Aging

We know what an important role the lack of human growth hormone plays in the process of aging, and as more is being learned about aging, research is suggesting that growth factors, specifically IGF-1 & IGF-2, may be the real key to successful anti-aging therapy.

It is the job of the liver to convert human growth hormone into growth factors, and it is the growth factors that are directly responsible for most of the benefits associated with HGH.

The major growth factor that comes from human growth hormone is called IGF-1 (insulin-like growth factor-1). IGF-1 is also known as somatomedin C.

More about IGF-1 (including normal IGF-1 levels)

Another important growth factor that comes from HGH is IGF-2 (insulin-like growth factor-2), also known as somatomedin A.

IGF-2 is a great maintenance growth factor and is very important to the health and maintenance of the body's nerve cells and nervous system. With diabetic neuropathy peripheral nerves can break down over time and can cause considerable pain. Scientists did studies where they gave diabetic rats IGF-2 and it prevented neuropathy!

We now know there are many different growth factors in the human body and they all seem to decrease with age.

Growth Factors Hold the Key to Delaying the Aging Process

Growth factors are chemicals within the body that help to regulate the cell growth, repair, and replacement that keeps the body functioning properly.

Growth factors play an important role in anti-aging in two ways:

They help to modulate cellular metabolism.

They delay the onset of degenerative diseases.

Growth factors are responsible for cellular repair and the replacement of old, worn out, and damaged cells. They are also responsible for keeping the body's metabolism strong and balanced. These abilities decrease as we age due to the decreased supply of the body's growth factors.

Example: When we are children our skin is soft, supple and moist, it even has the look of health and youthfulness. When we sustain a cut or scrape the skin is swiftly healed with new healthy cells.

Children have plenty of human growth hormone being produced and released into the bloodstream, and so they have plenty of growth factors. In children the body works optimally because it has plenty of growth factors to use to continuously heal itself.

Around age 20 the amount of HGH the pituitary gland releases starts to decrease. At first it is not noticeable but by the late 20's the effects of decreased HGH and growth factors are already beginning to become noticeable.

The discouraging thing we know is that the older we get, the less growth factors our body will have to heal and rejuvenate itself.

Without intervention the body will begin to break down more often and the break downs will become more serious; indeed without intervention our future of health is very bleak.

Luckily, we live in this day of anti-aging medicine where we do not have to stand helplessly by and watch our body literally break down from its lack the hormones and growth factors.

Lisa Wells, RN

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