Athletes Show Effects Of Growth Hormone Are Mental, Not Physical
June 19, 2008
Boston (dbTechno) - According to a new study, the performance-enhancing effects of growth hormone on athletes may be all mental, rather than all physical.
For the study, researchers looked at athletes and how they responded when given growth hormone.
Research was carried out at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney, Australia. The study was funded by the World Anti-Doping Agency, as well as the Australian Government Anti-Doping Research Program.
In total, 64 young athletes were given either growth hormone, or a completely inactive placebo.
Those who received either of the two did not know which they had been given.
They were then studies for 8 weeks, and what researchers found was that athletes who believed they were taking growth hormone felt an improvement in their performance, even though it was only a placebo.
A boost in performance was seen, by about 1 to 2% in everyone given both the growth hormone, or the placebo.
Researchers found that in people who believed they had been given growth hormone, but actually received a placebo, saw an increase of around 5% in their performance.
What this shows is that growth hormone may be all in the mind.
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Unless this article is not giving all of the details, this sounds so bogus.
Baseball players for example don’t take them and then just play baseball to train with it. They workout hard increasing their muscle mass more than they would be able to without it.
the person above is an idiot. the body obviously can only absorb and use so much GH before other biological processes are exhausted.
more likely that the body’s natural GH production was sufficient for their performance needs and the extra GH injections went to waste.
ancestral humans had no GH injections and they would put modern athletes to shame. the natural GH produced by exercise is also likely to correlate with the body’s need to rebuild after exertion.
The article may not give procedural details about the research but does almost as well by identifiying the study’s funders. The general public may not readily peruse a scientific article, but most can quickly identify a biased source. Still, I wish scientific publications were generally more accessible to the public through news venues. Is a reference to the journal in which this study will be published too much to ask?