How Long Has HGH Therapy Existed as a Medical Treatment?
Published 2026-07-11 · REVIVE Peptides Research Desk · 2 min read
Short answer: Growth hormone therapy dates back to the mid-20th century, when cadaveric-extracted material was first used clinically for growth hormone deficiency, and pharmaceutical-grade recombinant HGH (somatropin) has been an approved, widely used treatment since regulatory approvals began in the 1980s — giving it several decades of documented clinical use.
The earliest clinical applications of growth hormone therapy relied on hormone extracted from human cadaveric pituitary glands, a supply-constrained method used from roughly the mid-20th century until it was discontinued in the 1980s over documented safety concerns related to disease transmission.
Recombinant DNA technology resolved that safety issue and enabled the modern era of HGH therapy, with the first recombinant somatropin products receiving regulatory approval in the 1980s. In the decades since, the therapy has accumulated an extensive record of clinical use, post-marketing surveillance, and refinement of approved indications across multiple pharmaceutical manufacturers and regulatory jurisdictions, including the UAE.
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