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Sparky
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 19083
Location: PDX11/11/14 5:33 PM |
Recreational doping? [sort-a]
Or an excuse to do it perhaps...
Read this yourself, I won't say anything more than I read it through...
http://www.outsideonline.com/fitness/drug-test.html
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ErikS
Joined: 19 May 2005
Posts: 8337
Location: Slowing boiling over in the steamy south, Global Warming is real11/11/14 6:57 PM |
HGH sounds like a fountain of youth.
No reading glasses, wrinkles go away. Sign me up.
The EPO is so dangerous.
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Jesus Saves
Joined: 16 Jun 2005
Posts: 1150
Location: South of Heaven11/12/14 10:31 AM |
While it is a sufficiently large sample size for a medical study, the 20 day period is a bit too short to firmly conclude no measurable increase in either strength or exercise capacity. If that were in fact true, why would professional athletes go through considerable expense and risk to use HGH if there is no performance benefit?
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Dave B
Joined: 10 Jan 2004
Posts: 4511
Location: Pittsburgh, PA11/12/14 10:41 AM |
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If that were in fact true, why would professional athletes go through considerable expense and risk to use HGH if there is no performance benefit?
Because, despite the absence of evidence, they think it's beneficial and will try anything no matter how unproven to obtain an advantage.
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Sparky
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 19083
Location: PDX11/12/14 10:43 AM |
"According to Dutch media reports, from 1987 to 1990, 17 Dutch and Belgian professional cyclists died as a result of abusing EPO."
Funny how little press covers some aspects, ain't it?
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Jesus Saves
Joined: 16 Jun 2005
Posts: 1150
Location: South of Heaven11/12/14 11:54 AM |
absence of evidence & think it will be beneficial
Yeah, but it's not like these Rxs are brand spanking new.
There's plenty of non-clinical evidence, i.e. statistical to prove they do work in sports like baseball.
Per Erik, it really is like the fountain of youth, but with notable side effects....
It reminds me of this writer's first hand account of using HGH & EPO for
cycling
when he wrote this Outside magazine article back in
2003.
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