This video covers all the knowledge that you need to understand about growth hormone, its stimulation factors, mechanism and functions. This key hormone is not only essential for an increase in our height, rather it has several adjunctive roles in protein and glucose metabolism, and bone and muscle health. timeline 0:00 introcuction 1:50 stimulus for GH 4:10 mechanism 8:05 increase in muscle size+function 10:38 increase in bone mass 13:45 changes in cartilage 17:18 gluconeogenisis 20:09 uptake of aminoacids 20:30 overview of IGF-1 & GH