Another in my occasional rants about HGH not helping you play baseball

people use it just because they think they are getting high, but they’re really not.

so basically HGH is the extenze of PEDs

with players taking whatever they want. I figure its their bodies.

As far as physicians prescribing HGH, hormones and steroids, they already do. Even on the ticket’s web radio broadcast outlet, they advertise the lowtcenter.com, a southlake clinic that will pump up your testosterone levels. I know some parents who have their kids on HGH because they are low on the height/weight percentiles.

Personally, I think most PEDs should be OK under a doctor’s supervision. I’d rather atheletes not self administer the shots like Caminiti and be on 365/24/7 cycles.

that in general the perception of HGH has been clouded. I think most athletes use HGH because they believe it will do these things

• Increase endurance
• Increase “stamina” (Over length of season, prevent wear on body)
• Increase energy level

HGH are not anabolic steroids, they do two completely different things… Anabolic steroids do drastically increase muscle mass, that has been well documented. It also has extremely detrimental effects on some of your body functions, including liver/kidney/heart health.

To say we should legalize anabolic steroids and study them I think is irresponsible. They were legalized, they have been studied for a long time(30+ years). They are not safe for the average person to take recreation-ally, and can easily be abused to the detriment of the person due to the depressing effects.

HGH can be beneficial in a lot of ways that dont enhance player performance directly, but if you dont like that a player has more energy, recovers quickly from minor injuries, and has a bit more stamina late in a season, then HGH shouldn’t be used.

Those who dont like HGH should be against things like blood plate-lit therapy, protein enhancers, immune enhancers, and things like hydration treatments for players. But people aren’t, cause they are good. HGH is good too, when properly used under care of a doctor (some tests have shown HGH causes caner in some people), and shouldn’t be covered under the umbrella of anabolic steroids, its a black veil over an entire set of drugs being labeled PED’s. Just inst right.

but I can’t say that it does either. I am pretty convinced that it can help you recover from injuries quicker though.

Obviously there are a lot of players that were/are convinced that it does help them (and not just coming back for injuries) because so many have used it. I’m just at the point that I don’t care.

While there are obvious correlation != causation issues, the biomechanical explanation for increased muscle mass leading to a higher HRBiP ratio is pretty persuasive.

I don’t have the time or will to do the research, but from my understanding, HGH allows a player to work out longer and harder, increasing their strength, power, durability, etc.

This test may be flawed, used on recreational athletes. It seems to me that the true benefits of such a drug would be on extremely competitive athletes, a la Arod, Bonds, Clemens, who work their asses off in the gym.

Again, I tend to buy what you sell, but until their is empirical evidence that it doesn’t help the best of the best raise their game, I’m going to believe my eyes on this one. Bonds, Arod, Clemons, Caminetti, Sosa, McGwire, Ortiz, etc all got dramatically bigger in size at the same their performances took a leap.

Regardless of the pitchers’ use of HGH, the hitters have the ultimate say in whether the hit winds up over the fences.

I’m not saying the HGH caused their improvements, but it definitely helped facilitate the inflation in their numbers. In a 3-yr span, 3 players broke the single-season HR record 6 times after it had stood for 38 years. Immediately after, the steroid and HGH stories break loose, explaining their abnormal body masses and athleticism.

To look passed their increase muscle-sizes and bat speeds to blame juiced balls seems like a reach to me.

just apply to HGH, or to steroids also?

The effects are very well documented and researched in older patients

benefits of HGH. steroids, on the other hand…

The researchers noted some limitations. They couldn’t test the hormone in elite athletes for ethical reasons, and they used a smaller dose for a shorter time than reported for illegal use. Larger doses and longer use might have more impact and more serious side effects, they said. …The director general of the World Anti-Doping Agency, which helped pay for the study, said the results aren’t surprising to him and will disprove skeptics who don’t think the hormone helps. ….growth hormone usually isn’t used alone.

I like this piece, T-Ball. It’s an interesting take.

I disagree on many levels, most of which have been stated already, especially the concept of how difficult it is to measure this. I will say this, the idea that PED’s had a minimal effect on the game was new information for me. I can see your points there.