Golfer Vijay Singh has become the latest target of doping hysteria. Sports Illustrated equated Singh’s use of deer antler spray with IGF-1 doping. Deer antler may contain traces amounts of the banned hormone. But so does cow’s milk. Beef could contain the banned steroid trenbolone. Singh was bamboozled into believing he cheated by using IGF-1. If Singh cheated, so did athletes who consumed trace amounts of PEDs in milk and beef.
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Sports Illustrated and the Creation of an Imaginary Steroid Scandal
Sports Illustrated has created an imaginary steroid scandal involving NFL football player Ray Lewis and PGA golfer Vinjay Singh accusing them of using IGF-1 in a deer antler spray dietary supplement. Even if deer antler contained IGF-1 and EPO, oral use is not an effective method of doping. While Sports Illustrated was wasting their time investigating a non-doping doping scandal, Miami New Times blew the lid off the Biogenesis of America steroid scandal involving Alex Rodriguez.
IGF-1 and Skeletal Muscle Hypertrophy
Localized infusion of IGF-I results in skeletal muscle hypertrophy in rats. Researchers:Gregory R. Adams & Samuel A. McCue Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of California, Irvine, Ca. Source:Journal of Applied Physiology84(5): 1716-1722, 1998 Summary:The present study was undertaken to test the hypothesis that direct IGF-I infusion would result in an increase in muscle DNA […]
IGF-1 Once Again Proves to be One of the Most Powerful Mediators of Muscle Growth
Not since the travels of Juan Ponce de Leon has the fountain of youth seemed so close! Title:Viral mediated expression of insulin-like growth factor I blocks the aging-related loss of skeletal muscle function Researchers: Elisabeth R. Barton-Davis*, Daria I. Shoturma*, Antonio Musaro, Nadia Rosenthal, and H. Lee Sweeney*, * Department of Physiology, University of Pennsylvania […]
Growing Beyond What Nature Intended Part 3 – Steroid Synergy with GH, IGF-1, Insulin, and Thryoid
The Feasibility of Using GH, IGF-1, Insulin, and Thryoid to Enhance the Anabolic Effects of Androgens Warning: The following information is intended only as a hypothetical consideration of ways in which human physiology may be altered, through pharmacological means, to achieve striking muscularity. The drugs discussed in this series of articles are, by and large, […]
Growing Beyond What Nature Intended Part 2 – Combining Anabolic Steroids With hGH and IGF-1
The Role of Androgens in Growth Hormone (GH) Secretion and Insulin-like Growth Factor-1 (IGF-1) Sensitivity Warning: The following information is intended only as a hypothetical consideration of ways in which human physiology may be altered, through pharmacological means, to achieve striking muscularity. The drugs discussed in this series of articles are, by and large, prescription […]
Growing Beyond What Nature Intended Part 1
Mechanisms of Action for Growth Hormone (GH) and Insulin-like Growth Factor-1 (IGF-1) Warning:The following information is intended only as a hypothetical consideration of ways in which human physiology may be altered, through pharmacological means, to achieve striking muscularity. The drugs discussed in this series of articles are, by and large, prescription drugs and should not […]