Article: Better Chicken Soup Than HGH?(human growth hormone)

Byline: Katherine Hobson

The strongest performance enhancement aid I've ever used was lukewarm chicken broth, gulped down during the last hours of an Ironman competition (I swear, it perked me right up). But as disillusioned fans of baseball, cycling, track and field, and a host of other sports now know, elite athletes are turning to much more powerful substances in their pursuit of more home runs, higher jumps, or faster times. Many are reportedly pinning their hopes on human growth hormone, for instance. A new study suggests that--even putting aside the fact that most sports leagues and bodies ban the drug, and it's illegal to distribute it for sports enhancement ...

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