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HGH Human Growth Hormone In Baseball


HGH, Human Growth Hormone is used by hundreds of professional athletes, and plain… old… wealthy men.

Human growth hormone has many benefits, mostly reported by the users, rather than physical data. For years, scientists have said growth hormone doesn’t work the way bodybuilders want it to, but has been used in bodybuilding for years, and will be used for years to come.

There are many reasons why baseball players use human growth hormone.  HGH is known as the fountain of youth(there’s a reason why guys in Major League Baseball are playing into their 40s), and actually has similar benefits to testosterone.

Human Growth Hormone:

  • Increases energy
  • Increases libido (sex drive)
  • Improves skin complexion
  • Reverses signs of aging
  • Improves memory
  • Improves vision (and hand eye co-ordination *hint* ball to bat)
  • Burns fat
  • Builds muscle (No where close to steroids)
  • Improves recovery and healing

Take your pick, sounds pretty impressive doesn’t it?  The above list is why doctors today are prescribing growth hormone more than ever.  It is no longer ‘steroids are evil’, testosterone and growth hormone are being accepted more and more.  I believe in the next five years over half of all males will be on a testosterone or HGH program once they hit their 40s… and probably even sooner if it wasn’t so expensive, hence the plain, old, wealthy men comment earlier.

If that’s not enough, at this time, human growth hormone is undetectable in a urine test.  I emphasize urine, because there is now a blood test that can detect HGH… and they already caught their first athlete!  However, at this time, the MLB Players Association does not allow blood tests, so Bud Selig and the MLB front office are investing millions trying to discover a HGH test for urine samples.

“We’re spending many millions on a test for human growth hormone.” said Selig. “We’ve come a lot farther in the last five years than anybody possibly could have dreamed.”

What I’d like to know is how is this test coming along so fast, when the Olympics have been searching for a growth hormone test for decades?  Either way, HGH testing in MLB will be at least a few years away. However, Minor Leaguers, look out, the blood testing will now be used in the Minors, as they are not a part of the MLBPA.