If you have been investigating the latest trends in weight loss programs, then you have probably heard about HGH. In order to understand how HGH can help you lose weight, you first need to know what it is and what it does. HGH stands for human growth hormone, and it actually occurs naturally in the body. This is a hormone that is produced by the pituitary gland, and it is vital in the growth process. However, once a person hits a certain age, usually about 30, the pituitary gland decrease the amount of HGH that it is making. Many people believe that this is one of the many bodily factors that leads to aging. And as we all know, once you start entering your 30s and 40s, it is much harder to lose weight. This has a lot to do with the production of HGH and the effects that this decrease in the production of HGH has on the metabolism and the rate at which it works. When less HGH is being produced, your metabolism is slower and you are burning fat and calories at lot slower than you were when a lot of HGH was being produced in your youth.
So it can be assumed that if you were able to get the body to produce more HGH again, you would see an improvement in the rate at which your metabolism is function, and you would have an easier time with losing weight.
There are basically two methods in which HGH is used. In the case of people who are severely obese, they can probably get a doctor’s prescription for HGH injections. HGH injections are synthetically created HGH shots that are administered two or three times a day. This is a potent way to increase the amount of HGH in your body, but it is also expensive. One shot costs about 30 dollar, so you can be spending close to a hundred dollars a day on this treatment. Also, since this is not naturally produced HGH, but synthetic HGH that is produced in the lab, some side effects are possible.  
If HGH is abused, the most common side effect that occurs is acromegaly, which is a condition in which facial bones and connective tissue are overgrown, and it gives you the appearance of a protruding jaw and large eyebrow bones. Some of the other possible HGH side effects include heart enlargement which cannot be reverse, low blood sugar, high cholesterol, excessive hair growth and water retention.
A safer option is taking HGH releasers, which are natural supplements that encourage the pituitary gland to make more HGH naturally, but of course, they are not as potent and effective as the injections.