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Growth Hormone in Athletes: It Adds Two Kilos of Water, Not Strength - and Raises Lactate, Swelling and Risk

Sep 4
4 min read

Updated: 4 days ago

Growth hormone occupies a strange place in the doping world: banned, expensive, sought after, and - by the best evidence - close to useless for the thing athletes take it for. Its reputation rests on the visible bump in lean-body-mass figures. What that number hides is where the mass comes from and what it does, or fails to do, on the field.

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