Patient's question:
Height growth issue: Onset time: Examination results: Previous treatment history and effectiveness: I am 20 years old and only 150 cm tall. I want to grow taller and heard that growth hormone injections can help. I am in Chengdu. Which hospital can provide this service?Doctor's answer:
Growth hormone in higher animals and humans, its chemical composition is protein. While auxin in plants, its chemical composition is indole acetic acid, a hormone secreted by the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland that promotes physical growth. Auxin can indirectly promote the formation of epiphyseal cartilage during the growth period by enhancing the liver's production of growth hormone mediators, thereby promoting bone and cartilage growth, leading to an increase in body height. Growth hormone also affects intermediary metabolism and energy metabolism, enhancing protein synthesis and increasing the intake and utilization of important elements such as sodium, potassium, calcium, phosphorus, and sulfur. At the same time, by inhibiting sugar consumption and accelerating fat compression, it shifts the energy source from sugar decomposition metabolism to fat decomposition metabolism.