Human Growth Hormone (HGH) Enhances Athletic Performance Like Testosterone

Human Growth Hormone (HGH) Enhances Athletic Performance Like Testosterone.
Human excrescence hormone, a material frequently implicated in sports doping scandals, does seem to rise athletic performance, a new study shows. Australian researchers gave 96 non-professional athletes age-old 18 to 40 injections of either HGH or a saline placebo. Participants included 63 men and 33 women. About half of the manly participants also received a second injection of testosterone or placebo.

After eight weeks, men and women given HGH injections sprinted faster on a bicycle and had reduced cushy oceans and more lean body mass. Adding in testosterone boosted those goods - in men also given testosterone, the impact on sprinting ability was nearly doubled. HGH, however, had no objective on jumping ability, aerobic capacity or strength, measured by the ability to dead-lift a weight, nor did HGH inflation muscle mass.

So "This paper adds to the scientific evidence that HGH can be effectuation enhancing, and from our perspective at World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), lends support to bans on HGH," said Olivier Rabin, WADA's realm director. The study, which was funded in cause by WADA, is in the May 4 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine. Human growth hormone is in the midst the substances banned by the WADA for use by competitive athletes.

HGH is also banned by Major League Baseball, though the combine doesn't currently test for it. HGH has made headlines in the sports world. Recently, American tennis sportswoman Wayne Odesnik accepted a voluntary suspension for importing the import into Australia, while Tiger Woods denied using it after the assistant to a prominent sports medicine learned who had treated Woods was arrested at the US-Canada border with HGH.

However, based on anecdotal reports and athlete testimonies, HGH is extensively abused in professional sports, said Mark Frankel, superintendent of the scientific freedom, responsibility and law program for the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Prior digging has suggested HGH reduces fat mass as well as help the body recover more quickly from wound or "microtraumas" - small injuries to the muscles, bones or joints that occur as a result of consuming training. That type of a boost could put athletes at a competitive advantage.