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somatopause, progressive, decline, levels, growth, hormone, insulin, like, growth, factor, hormones, hypothalamic, pituitary, somatotropic, axis, axis, with, secretion, only, that, young, adult, years, results, changes, body, such, body, composition, changes, . Somatopause is the progressive decline in the levels of growth hormone GH and insulin like growth factor 1 IGF 1 hormones of the hypothalamic pituitary somatotropic axis HPS axis with age 1 Secretion of GH may only be 60 of that of a young adult by age 70 years 2 Somatopause results in changes in the body such as body composition changes like a decrease in lean body mass 1 Estrogens and progesterone may oppose somatopause by increasing GH and IGF 1 levels 1 References edit a b c J Larry Jameson Leslie J De Groot 25 February 2015 Endocrinology Adult and Pediatric E Book Elsevier Health Sciences pp 2315 ISBN 978 0 323 32195 2 Roy G Smith Michael O Thorner 28 January 2000 Human Growth Hormone Research and Clinical Practice Springer Science amp Business Media pp 325 ISBN 978 1 59259 015 5 nbsp This biology article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Somatopause amp oldid 1099069497, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
