Pluses and negatives and money in my opinion.

Biggest ways without negatives to health is to balance your circadian rhythms, balance your stress with recovery. That means sleep cycles ("Lights Out" is a good book), food, water and lifestyle ("How to Eat, Move and be Healthy" - also covers sleep).

But most of us in the West are so conditioned to living unnaturally that living in accordance with nature (we ARE animals) is stressful and difficult. Our societal programming is such that we eat sugar, miss sleep and sleep times in ingest countless amounts of toxins etc

Most want a quick fix regardless of negative long term health affects.

hgh will give benefits but the human body takes the path of least resistance. That means when you take hormones your body doesn't have to make them - "use it or loose it", don't use it and your body will stop making it naturally (to a lessor or larger degree. Hormones affect EVERYTHING! and messing with hormones, even more naturally means messing with everything!

If you have the money and time Poliquin does some more natural and less damaging ways of getting great results. Example - some of his athletes inject large amount of vit C while while lifting etc

But hgh will give you some wicked short term results if done right. I just think its smart to look at all the +s and -s before making a decision.