Is HGH the same as somatropin?

HGH, rhGH, Genotropin, and Norditropin are aliases listed on this site's somatropin profile for recombinant human growth hormone, molecular weight 22,124 daltons. Somatropin is the nonproprietary name. Genotropin and Norditropin are branded prescription products. A research-chemical vial labeled HGH is not those labeled medicines, and the approved indications are growth hormone deficiency and a short list of other labeled conditions, not a general anti-aging use. Sharing a hormone name is not a license to treat a research vial as the finished drug. This site does not rank brands. Full record at /compounds/somatropin.

Educational use only. This database summarizes published research and is not medical advice. Where a dose appears it is a record of what a trial or clinic ran, or what people describe doing, with its source attached. Nothing here is a recommendation for personal use.

Part of growth hormone secretagogues. Sermorelin, tesamorelin, ipamorelin, CJC-1295, and the rest of the GHRH and ghrelin receptor family.