HGH and Nutrition

Hormones are your body's chemical messengers that travel through your blood to drive cellular processes tissues and organs throughout your body. Your pituitary gland produces human growth hormone, or HGH. This hormone helps drive growth during childhood and maintain your tissues and organs throughout your life. Nutrition that you get from the food you eat also supports childhood growth and lifelong tissue and organ maintenance.

HGH and Metabolism

HGH helps regulate your metabolism. Your metabolism consists of all the physical and chemical processes that convert or use energy from nutrients in your diet. These processes allow you to breathe, contract your muscles, digest food and eliminate waste. Your metabolism also controls blood circulation, your body temperature, your brain and nervous system.

Tissue Growth

HGH and nutrition help promote growing tissues in your body. You damage muscle tissue during resistance exercises like weightlifting. Adequate post-workout nutrition provides nutrients like carbohydrates to promote post-workout tissue growth and repair. According to Bodybuilding.com, HGH also helps drive metabolic processes that promote tissue growth and repair.

Patient Recovery

The Hormone Foundation reports that a combination of HGH and adequate daily nutrition may enhance patient recovery after severe injury. HGH and adequate nutrition may enhance your metabolism and your ability to turn food into energy. Combining HGH and healthy nutrition may limit infections acquired by patients with severe injuries and enable these patients to spend less time in the hospital.

Excessive Exercise

Exercise can enhance HGH released in your body. Insufficient nutrition or excessive exercises like endurance training can deplete your body's energy and recovery nutrients. The release of HGH during exercise depends on intensity, duration, frequency and the type of exercises you perform. Excessive strenuous activity that may occur during endurance training can decrease the release of HGH. Bodybulding.com recommends taking nutritional steps to help minimize HGH reductions that may occur with longer or more strenuous exercise sessions. These nutritional steps may include adequate pre- and post-workout meals that are rich in protein and carbohydrates.

HGH and IUGR

HGH may help children who do not grow normally during pregnancy as a result of nutrition deficiencies or complications. A baby may be born small for the amount of time spent in the womb with a condition known as intrauterine growth restriction or IUGR. Inadequate maternal nutrition or drinking too much alcohol during pregnancy may cause IUGR. Infectious disease and other environmental factors may also affect nutrients delivered to a growing fetus. According to the Hormone Foundation, HGH treatments may help IUGR that do not catch up to normal growth by age 2.