Human growth hormone (HGH) was historically extracted from human cadavers from the mid-1900s until 1985, but this practice was discontinued because cadaver-derived HGH sometimes transmitted prion diseases such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease; it has since been fully replaced by synthetic recombinant HGH, which is produced through biotechnology and does not carry the same disease transmission risks.
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HGH Used To Come From Corpses
Added:I think they were getting human growth hormone from cadavers. See if that's true. Jamie, put that into our AI sponsor Perplexity. Did they used to get human growth hormone from cadavers? I think they did.
I think that's how they used to get it.
>> Where do you get human growth growth hormone from now?
>> That's a good question.
Um, I don't know. I don't know how they do it. It's synthetic. I know it's synthetic. So, it must be they isolate the molecule, they figure out how to reproduce it, and then they make it somehow. I have no idea.
Um, but the way they used to do it back then, cadaver-derived human growth hormone was real used mid-1900s to 1985 and turned out to be dangerous cuz it sometimes transmitted prion diseases like Creutzfeldt-Jakob Jakob and is no longer used and has been fully replaced by synthetic recombinant HGH.
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