HGH. Why the controversy in sports? I thought Human Growth Hormone was produced naturally from a gland ?

Question

A gland near the brain that by adding to it slows down the aging process because you lose it as you get older. Why would it be cheating to try and prolong your life? Does it really enhance performance? How?

Answer 1

It is produced naturally, but the people using this are using more than the body is meant to use and thus it enhances their performance. It's the new steroid, so to speak. It used to be harvested from corpses, but today it's synthesized in a lab. It could prolong your life, or shorten it. Our bodies aren't meant to use so much of things like this naturally. When you increase something that's there naturally to an unnatural level, then you run into troubles. Our bodies make steroids too, but these people use too much it's why they have problems. One thing that could happen with people that use HGH is that their pituitary gland could shrink and not function properly, thus creating problems when they eventually stop using. the way it enhances performances it that it allows the body to heal faster meaning that a player won't miss time when hurt, minor things become almost nothing and it allows people to spend more time in the gym giving them a chance to become bigger and stronger.