What is sermorelin used for?
Its approved use was to diagnose and treat growth hormone deficiency. Doctors checked whether it set off a normal growth hormone response. Outside that history, it is used off label and in research for its effect on growth hormone and IGF-1 (a growth signal the liver makes). It is often talked about next to ipamorelin and CJC-1295 for changing body shape. But this site's own review found only one study in people for sermorelin.
Studies in people from the compound pages this answer belongs to
- Sermorelin
- Growth hormone (GH)-releasing hormone-(1-29) twice daily reverses the decreased GH and insulin-like growth factor-I levels in old men 1992 PMID 1379256
- Once daily subcutaneous growth hormone-releasing hormone therapy accelerates growth in growth hormone-deficient children during the first year of therapy. Geref International Study Group 1996 PMID 8772599
- Endocrine and metabolic effects of long-term administration of [Nle27]growth hormone-releasing hormone-(1-29)-NH2 in age-advanced men and women 1997 PMID 9141536
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Part of growth hormone secretagogues. Sermorelin, tesamorelin, ipamorelin, CJC-1295, and the rest of the GHRH and ghrelin receptor family.