Ray Peat: Growth hormone: Hormone of Stress, Aging, and Death?

Water, sodium, and edema

1. Expansion of extracellular volume and suppression of atrial natriuretic peptide after growth hormone administration in normal manJ Clin Endocrinol Metab · 1991 · PMID 1826008
2. Pathogenesis of edema in constrictive pericarditis. Studies of body water and sodium, renal function, hemodynamics, and plasma hormones before and after pericardiectomyCirculation · 1991 · PMID 2040040
3. Edema of cardiac origin. Studies of body water and sodium, renal function, hemodynamic indexes, and plasma hormones in untreated congestive cardiac failureCirculation · 1989 · PMID 2752558
4. Studies on the renal kinetics of growth hormone (GH) and on the GH receptor and related effects in animalsJ Pediatr Endocrinol · 1994 · PMID 8061766

Hypophysectomy, aging, and mortality

1. The anti-aging action of hypophysectomy in hypothalamic obese rats: effects on collagen aging, age-associated proteinuria development and renal histopathologyMech Ageing Dev · 1983 · PMID 6632996
2. Morphometrical analysis of the short-term effects of hypophysectomy and food restriction on skeletal muscle fibers in relation to growth and aging changes in the ratGrowth Dev Aging · 1992 · PMID 1517008
3. Metabolism of glomerular basement membrane in normal, hypophysectomized, and growth-hormone-treated diabetic ratsExp Mol Pathol · 1985 · PMID 2931303
4. Increased mortality associated with growth hormone treatment in critically ill adultsN Engl J Med · 1999 · PMID 10477776

Growth without GH, puberty, insulin, receptors

1. A hypopituitary patient who attained tall stature without growth hormoneIntern Med · 1998 · PMID 9652904
2. Sleep, respiratory rate, and growth hormone in chronic neonatal lung diseasePediatr Pulmonol · 1998 · PMID 9811073
3. The gonadotropic function of insulinEndocr Rev · 1987 · PMID 3301317
4. Prolactin and growth hormone receptorsCiba Found Symp · 1982 · PMID 6291882