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Numerous professional and semi-professional athletes credit drugs with improving their performance on the fields but they may want to thank their brains instead of the human growth hormone, the most increasingly used drug in athletes today.

In a new recent double-blind trial funded by the World Anti-Doping Agency, in which neither the researchers nor the participants knew who was receiving the HGH and who was taking the placebo, the researchers asked participants to guess whether or not they were on the real drug.  Then they examined the results of the group would guess that they were on HGH when, in fact, they had been receiving the placebo.  This group improved at four fitness tests measuring in endurance, power, spirit capacity and strength.  The study participants that guessed correctly that they were taking a placebo had in fact not improved at all, according to preliminary results presented at the Society for Endocrinology meeting held earlier this year.

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Human growth hormones or hgh is a natural occurring process in the brain’s pituitary gland which happens from birth until we are approximately 25 years old.  At that time, that the pituitary gland slows down the process of human growth hormone because we are finished growing tall.  The only thing we need human growth hormone for is our vital organs such as kidneys, heart, and lungs.  People, especially older people or athletes,  receive injections of human growth hormones so that they can recapture the youthful glow or gain muscle.

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