Gee, I'm shocked. And I wonder how many high school athletes are grabbing their dad's Androgel packets, which is much more widely available than HGH? http://www.kansascity.com/living/health-fitness/article784444.htmlText of the article:
Gee, I'm shocked. And I wonder how many high school athletes are grabbing their dad's Androgel packets, which is much more widely available than HGH? http://www.kansascity.com/living/health-fitness/article784444.htmlText of the article:
11% seems shockingly high... I find it difficult to believe that that statistic is accurate.
Compare a pic of a typical Division I track meet today vs. the 1960's. The average jaw size is about 3 centimeters larger today.
"these substances alter your body" ... "um, yeah dad, that is the idea."
Why should this surprise anyone? When I was in HS in the early 80s, guys were taking livestock 'roids.
I think that teens over report. I doubt that 11% number.
I do know that those numbers REALLY help The Partnership for Drug-Free Kids justify their existence.
I call complete BS on this. It's a survey, the kids THINK they are taking HGH but really they're just taking "GH Boost" supplements which do nothing. Unless they have vials in the fridge that they inject every night, they're not taking HGH.
pretty much 100% at portland central catholic high school
I don't know that taking HGH would even be helpful for kids. A) your levels are already pretty high and there's no proof that jacking up HGH beyond normal levels is at all helpful
B) you risk shutting down HGH production at a pretty important time of your life
C) HGH is expensive and I highly doubt anything like 11% of teens are on it.
Without commenting on the accuracy of the number (admittedly, it's a survey), I'm not surprised by the number at all. The current generation of high school athletes has grown with pharmaceutical ads on TV. They've been programmed to believe that there is a pill or medication for everything from erectile dysfunction to nicotine addiction to dry eyes. Reaching for something in mom or dad's medicine chest that helps performance would just be natural for many of them. And for a lot of neurotic parents who can't stand to see a little Janie or Johnny "fail," they would have no problems passing along their own meds to the kids for some assistance.
Doesn't surprise me in the least.
the post rupp generation
Full report is here: http://www.drugfree.org/newsroom/pats-2013-full-report-key-findings
They believe expensive stimulant drinks are energy drinks, so I suppose they'll believe anything, and not just teens.
"Compare a pic of a typical Division I track meet today vs. the 1960's. The average jaw size is about 3 centimeters larger today"
-this has got to be top 10 under the heading of "most asinine posts on letsrun".
Even with the extra 3cm, rupp has that pregnathic drooling look.
Fortunately, the masses of open and master's athletes are unaffected by this type of thing.
Why was this thread deleted?
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I call complete BS on this. It's a survey, the kids THINK they are taking HGH but really they're just taking "GH Boost" supplements which do nothing. Unless they have vials in the fridge that they inject every night, they're not taking HGH.
exactly. ain't no way 9% of teen girls are injecting HGH.
no way that # is accurate. they are a generation raised on prescription drugs, by their parents and doctors, where ADD/ADHD medication and corticosteroids for asthma, among other things, are highly prevalent, but this is a very specific, expensive drug. however, all the publicity from the doping investigations is precisely what leads to an increase here--far from discouraging doping, it encourages it when they hear that famous sports stars do it.
The key thing I'm interested in... if authentic PEDs are so expensive, even if those who manage to get the authentic PEDs are a small minority of (young adults, high schoolers), who are these rich sonovab--ches? Who are at liberty to do this discreet dangerous physiological enhancement?