The Most Effective Hormone Replacement Therapies
Decreasing levels of human growth hormone as we age, can cause sexual health issues in both men and women.
No matter how old you are, maintaining a happy and healthy sex life is important to your relationships and your emotional and physical health. Unfortunately, as men and women age, they experience changes in their hormonal balance that can impact sex drive and sexual performance. One of those is the decline in human growth hormone or HGH that occurs in both men in women as they get older.
While HGH is not considered a “sex hormone,” like testosterone or estrogen, it controls and regulates many processes that are directly related to your sex drive and your ability to perform sexually.
HGH can impact your sex life in a number of ways. One of the most important links between HGH and sexual health is the role it can play in maintaining libido or sex drive. Your libido or sex drive is largely driven by neurotransmitters in your brain. Some of these key "feel good" chemicals, which are related to moods as well as feelings of ecstasy and orgasm, are serotonin and dopamine. HGH is a necessary precursor that stimulates the production and release of both of these neurotransmitters.
As men and women age, HGH levels decline. This leads to adult-onset or age-related growth hormone deficiency. As HGH levels drop, so do the levels of these critical brain chemicals. That is why older men and women often suffer from mood swings, depression, and anxiety. It is also the reason why they experience a loss of libido or a decreased desire for sex.
Growth hormone therapy has been shown to improve mood and decrease feelings of depression. So much, so that HGH injections are currently being investigated as an alternative treatment to antidepressant medications. Patients who are diagnosed with an age-related GHD and are complaining of a loss of sexual desire usually see a significant improvement in sexual desire within weeks of starting growth hormone therapy.
Erectile dysfunction can happen at any age, but the incidence of ED goes up dramatically the older a man is. Men with low testosterone and or low levels of HGH often experience ED. While HGH is not prescribed as a standalone ED treatment, one of the benefits of growth hormone therapy is an increased ability to obtain and maintain harder and strong erections. This is because of the positive effect HGH has on blood circulation and on the production and release of nitric oxide.
Nitric oxide is fundamental to erectile function. In fact, oral ED drugs such as Viagra work by increasing the production of nitric oxide. Nitric oxide opens up the blood vessels in the erectile tissue of the penis. When these blood vessels become filled with blood, an erection is the result.
Studies have found that upon sexual excitement, HGH levels also increase in these critical blood vessels. The same studies found that men with ED had as much as seven times less HGH in their erectile tissues when non-erect than in men with normal erectile function.
Men who received HGH supplementation for other reasons, such as lack of vitality, or loss of muscle, also reported improved libido and increased ability to gain an erection. A specific 2001 study looking at the link between HGH and erectile function, published in the Journal of Urology, concluded, “our results suggest that penile erection [is] induced by growth hormone through its nitric oxide and cyclic guanosine monophosphate stimulating activity on human corpus cavernosum smooth muscle.”
HGH does not only improve sexual performance in men; it also can help with various forms of female sexual dysfunction or FSD. Because of the impact that HGH can have on improving blood flow and nerve sensitivity, growth hormone injections have been found to increase vaginal lubrication and the ability to achieve orgasm in women. HGH also has the effect of reducing feelings of stress and depression and increasing sex drive in women the same as it does in women.
In addition, also, as in men, HGH seems to have a positive effect on fertility in women. HGH therapy has been found to improve or induce ovulation in women who have had fertility issues. Studies have found that HGH, along with IGF-1 and IGF-2, works to stimulate the maturation of ovarian follicles into viable eggs.
Sex is enjoyable. Sex is critical to healthy and happy relationships. Sex is essential for good mental and physical health. But, let’s not forget that biologically speaking, the main purpose of sex is reproduction, and HGH also has a positive influence on fertility and reproductive health. HGH has a positive effect on sperm production and sperm count.
Growth hormone has been found to have such a positive impact on sperm count and sperm motility that a recent study published in the journal Endocrine Abstracts concluded that HGH therapy should be explored as an effective treatment for men suffering from infertility.
Similar, studies have found that HGH can improve fertility, increase egg production, and improve the chances of becoming pregnant in some women.
Clearly, HGH has many benefits for improving the sexual health of both men and women. Here is a breakdown of all of the ways that growth hormone therapy can improve your sex life.
HGH therapy has been found to:
In addition to the above direct effects of HGH, growth hormone therapy can improve your sex life in a number of other indirect ways. Loss of sexual desire, ED, FSD, or sexual performance issues are often caused by or at least accompanied by:
HGH therapy has been shown to help with all of the above. It only stands to reason then that HGH can help any man or woman who feels that their sex life needs a boost.
The many positive benefits of growth hormone therapy are not restricted to only improving sexual performance. In men and women suffering from age-related growth hormone deficiency, HGH injections have been shown to:
Now that you know a lot more about the benefits of HGH for sexual health, why not contact us today, and learn about all of the life-changing benefits of human growth hormone therapy.
