It’s important to note that synthetic IGF-1 is not stable and any kind of slight trauma – a loud noise, shaking the vial, temperature change – can reduce this miracle of enhancement into an overpriced collection of amino acids. Using IGF-1 is not a simple matter of popping some pills or using an idiot-proof, needle-free injection system as is the case with HGH.
The experimental nature of this drug combined with its volatility indicates that someone is not only supplying major league baseball players with this hormone, but is also providing education as to its use, and perhaps assistance in its administration. Since Radomski has been cooperating with the authorities for about 18 months, we’re sure to learn more about the PED taking habits of major league baseball players.
And don’t for one minute think that the story will end with HGH and IGF-1. There are other more powerful and undetectable substances out there that people are experimenting with for performance enhancement. Among them are Growth Hormone Releasing Hormone (GHRH), Growth Hormone Secretagogues (to cause or stimulate hormone secretion) and Growth Hormone Releasing Peptides. When you consider that some of these drugs have been tested on healthy adult males, and can be taken orally, you realize that these drugs are being used as you read this.
Many of these drugs are being studied to fight diseases that cause loss of muscle mass, but ultimately these substances will be marketed and used as anti-aging drugs.
Some people may laugh and think that this is all just crazy talk. But remember that back in the early 1980s body builders and other underground types were using human growth hormone that had been harvested by grinding up the pituitary glands of the dead that had been turned into an injectable form. Twenty years later, just about anybody can get a hold of the synthetic version of this substance.
Stay tuned and be prepared to be amazed.
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1 - melvin polatnick
The use of performance enhancing drugs might be looked on as a negative phenomena by sport fans who want only natural nutrients to empower their stars.But winning means big money and athletes will do almost anything to enter the winning circle.Laboratory mice are given different combinations of drugs to enhance their performance,some of them seem to work,but only through human testing can the real results be known.Many athletes are secretly obtaining those drugs that have enhanced the performance of mice,but have not yet been tested on humans.If any of those untested laboratory drugs work and produce superior athletes,a wonder drug will have been discovered for the benefit of everyone.The chemical formula that enhances human performance has been searched for since the beginning of time,it has now been placed in the hands of athletes to find it.Lets wish them luck.