A friend approaches you about a nutritional product and ask you if it is worth it....

A friend approaches you about a nutritional product and ask you if it is worth it. He shows you a HGH cream called Somaderm that is a homeopathic human growth hormone, meant to penetrate the skin and reduce wrinkles, improve sleep, experience vivid dreams, promote muscle and bone growth, and reduce fat.

Use: concentration gradients, diffusion, active or passive transport, layers of the skin, what substances can or cannot pass through the skin and why.. to explain if the supplement is beneficial or if it is a scam.

Expert Solution

HGH is human growth hormone. It is a protein that is releases by pituitary gland into the blood. This is responsible for the growth of bones and tissues.

Now talking about the cream i.e. Somaderm/HGH cream. The contents of somaderm are Somatropin(growth hormone), Glandula suprarenalis(Pig adrenal gland) and Thyroidinum(Cow's thyroid hormone). Somatropin is identical to the growth hormone which is used to treat growth failure in children and adults who lack growth hormone.

Somaderm is said to be a transdermal HGH product but the HGH hormore can only be given by injection and is not transdermal because of the large molecules.

I would not recommend it to my friend without confirming if they have growth hormone deficiency or not and if the have the deficiency I would suggest them to visit a doctor and not take somaderm/HGH cream without proper procedure as it may have various side effects like joint pain,swelling,increased diabetic risk.

Sydney Mullin answered 2 hours ago

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