Is human growth hormone legal in competition?
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Not by most professional organizations.
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The use of anabolic steroids among athletes has been widely discussed in the press and the medical literature. Sports organizations generally condemn steroid use in the interest of fair competition, while sports physicians often focus on the dangerous side effects and health risks. Anabolic steroids or their breakdown products have been detected in athletes for many years, and black-market steroids are distributed to athletes at all levels of competition. This brief review describes how and why these agents are used by athletes, their effects on body size and athletic performance, and their known side effects.\n\nMisuse of anabolic steroids, growth hormone and other ergogenic aids is a complex problem. General solutions include education and motivation of athletes to avoid these drugs, state and federal regulations to limit their production and distribution, and unannounced drug testing of competitors.\n\nDefinition of Anabolic Steroids\n\nAnabolic steroids are more precisely characterized as anabolic-androgenic steroids. They include testosterone, the primary male sex hormone, and all chemically altered derivatives of testosterone that have anabolic (tissue-building) and androgenic (masculinizing) properties. Synthetic anabolic steroids have greater anabolic activity than androgenic activity when compared with testosterone; in large quantities, however, the synthetic steroids also have strong androgenic effects. Anabolic steroids have medical indications in the treatment of refractory anemias, hereditary angioedema, certain breast cancers, hypogonadism and starvation states.\n\nAthletes use anabolic steroids in the belief that these drugs increase body mass, muscle tissue, strength and aggressiveness. Testosterone and the synthetic anabolic steroids combine with an androgen receptor in skeletal muscles and other organs. This steroid/receptor complex stimulates production of RNA/DNA, which in turn leads to increased protein synthesis (Table 2). In muscle, increased amounts of actin and myosin are produced under the influence of anabolic steroids. These force-producing contractile proteins result in increased strength. Anabolic steroids have more dramatic effects on nitrogen retention and muscular development in females, in boys and in men who have been castrated or are otherwise deficient in natural androgens. Anabolic steroids may also exert positive effects on the growth of skeletal muscle by antagonizing protein breakdown. \n\nIn addition, anabolic steroids may produce an effect that is regulated through the central nervous system. Athletes commonly say that they are far more aggressive, experience less fatigue and recover more quickly from weight-training workouts when they are using steroids. Since minimal increments in muscular performance or psychologic benefit may constitute the difference between winning and losing, athletes may perceive these small, difficult-to-measure changes as crucial to their overall performance. Athletes often feel that they can perform weight-training workouts at a higher intensity and for longer periods under the influence of anabolic steroids. The more intensive training program leads to increased muscle mass development and improvement in strength and power. However, little or no scientific evidence supports this notion.\n\nIn athletes who do not use steroids, a strength stimulus (lifting) and an adequate diet will result in increased passage of amino acids into muscle cells and a subsequent increase in protein synthesis. Strength training without steroids will increase the number of steroid receptor sites in muscle. Strength-training programs, especially when combined with anabolic steroid use, cause not only an increase in steroid receptor sites but also saturation of these receptor sites. This results in increased protein synthesis and prevention of protein breakdown.\n\nTo date, most studies that have shown significant gains in muscle mass and strength with steroids have utilized the fo
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There is no legal restriction on showing your competitor in an add.\nHistorically, there has been a hesitency to do this because it is seen as "free advertising" for the competitor.  As long as you acknowledge any copyrights or trademarks, then there is no legal ground for objections.
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Okay heres what I found...Human placental lactogen (HPL), also called human chorionic somatomammotropin, is a polypeptide placental hormone. Its structure is related to that of human growth hormone. It modifies the metabolic state of the mother during pregnancy to facilitate the energy supply of the fetus.HPL consists of 190 amino acids that are linked by two disulfite bonds and is secreted by the syncytiotrophoblast during pregnancy. Its molecular weight is 22,125. Like human growth hormone HPL is encoded by genes on chromosome 17q22-24. Its biologic half-life is 15 minutes.
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It really depends on the hormone. \n\nMost protein hormones (such as insulin and HGH) are made by recombinant DNA technology. Most of the glucocorticoid (eg cortisone), mineralocorticoid (eg aldosterone) and sex hormones (eg estradiol and progesterone) are partially synthesized starting with certain readily available plant hormones. \n\nIn the past some hormones were indeed taken from animals and human cadavers, but with advances in DNA technology and improved methods of chemical synthesis, this has been almost entirely abandoned.
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Are you referring to legal as part of a PEST or SPELTEC analysis?  There are many laws governing business from health and safety to consumer to employment to competition - a good starting place is www.spideybiz.co.uk which gives you links to the best sites for this information.
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Competition always makes for a better society.  Simply because people always are looking for cheaper, but better...and they usually get it.  \n\nProgress like I just mentioned has lead to transgenic foods...food that is genetically modified.  Americans are eating genetically modified foods faster than they can let their belts out.  Many countries in the world that have hunger problems won't readily accept genetically modified foods, no matter how fat Americans are getting from it.\n\nIn Africa for instance, genetically modified food sits and rots because the people think its poison.  Warehouses full of staples for preventing hunger.  Someone should go and educate these people.
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No - unless you do physical labour (which technically is exercise).  They are doing experiments in gene doping with Insulin-like Growth Factor - but it's for people with muscle wasting diseases.  You're goning to have to lift weights or start working construction/agriculture (or any other physically demanding job).  Exercise is fun, gives you social contact, makes you feel better and helps build up muscle.  You should give it a try!
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Beware that using HGH tells EVERY cell in the body to grow, not just your muscles. Some baseball players have bigger heads now (literally and figuratively) than their rookie season - think they were using HGH? Beware that HGH is extremely expensive as mentioned before, and most of it (especially the discounted kind) is fake.\n\nJohn
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Human Growth hormone - they can give it is shots or pill form
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Human growth hormone is produced in the pituitary gland is secreted throughout a person's lifetime. It promotes growth in children and plays an important role in adult metabolism. It was first isolated in 1956 and its structure was identified in 1972. Until the mid-1980s the only source of HGH was from pituitary glands collected post mortem. Today HGH is available in larger quantities through the technique of genetic engineering and a number of conditions apart from the classical growth hormone insufficiency can be treated. Human growth hormone is the master hormone produced by the master gland, the pituitary, which rests just behind our eyes. HGH acts as a catalyst for many glandular secretions and life functions critical to maintaining youth. It's the stuff that makes nearly every cell in our bodies grow and repair over the course of our lives.\n\nAthletes use it for the following:\nExcessive hGH levels increase muscle mass by stimulating protein synthesis, strengthen bones by stimulating bone growth and reduce body fat by stimulating the breakdown of fat cells. Use of hGH has become increasingly popular because it is difficult to detect. Side effects include: \n\nOvergrowth of hands, feet, and face (acromegaly) because of the increased muscle and bone development in these parts \nEnlarged internal organs, especially heart, kidneys, tongue and liver \nHeart problems
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Dude!!! When I was in high school, I was the same way. I was playing football and working out all day and I got really strong, but I looked like a matchstick. I played defensive line and could throw guys around, but when they saw me in the huddle, they would laugh. I tried weight gainer, and that worked but its expensive and once you stop, your metabolism takes over again. HGH does work to a certain degree. Again its expensive and all the side effects havent been worked out yet. I do know that you get nasty back acne and act like a chick on her rag sometimes. But I guess the sexual effects arent as bad as the injected steroids normally used. So, my advice to you is if you are in high school and are playing sports, stick to weight gainer and maybe some creatine supplements. Work out like a madman and eat as many calories as you can. This is because you can be drug tested if someone suspects something in your school and those are illegal for use in high school sports. If your not in school and dont care, then hey, try it. What have you got to lose? We know what you have to gain.
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Human Growth Hormone is completely safe when taken appropriately under a doctor's care.  It is pretty dangerous if you take it incorrectly without strict medical oversite.  Basically, you should only take growth hormone if you are deficient and experiencing symptoms from that deficiency.  This will show up on a hormone panel.  You should only take enough to bring your levels back up to normal.  Go see an endocrinologist who specializes in growth hormone replacement therapy.\n\nAlso, don't even think of taking growth hormone like you would a steroid, for weight lifting.  At the very least, you will get deformed facial plate growth and end up looking like a troll (this only happens when taking the huge amounts necessary for body building purposes).  At worst....well, like all steroid users there are substantial health risks.\n\nSafe when done correctly.  Dangerous when not. See a specialist.
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anabolic steroids with high protein food.
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Nutropin is a human growth hormone. Different spelling?
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NO.\n\nIt is NOT legal.\n\nBut it still seems to thrive - not just in Japan, but all over the world!
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I could see it's use for their older military as long as their levels are monitored and controlled to avoid abuse. There is no justification for its use in the younger troops. \n\nThere are safe ways to raise HGH levels right now that I would have no problem with (again) the older troops using on their own...i.e., taking HGH precursors like DHEA or stacked amino acids.