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Growth hormone – 0.4s faster over 100m

Monday, May 17th, 2010

Growth hormone improves performance by 0.4 seconds – WADA funded research I’m sure that by now, many of you have seen the initial reports on a WADA-funded growth hormone study, which was published yesterday in the Annals of Internal Medicine.  It’s an intriguing study, one that is bound to stimulate discussion, so I thought I’d [...]

Does human growth hormone improve performance?

Thursday, May 13th, 2010

Breaking down the findings on hGH When our resident maven Jim Ferstle sent us the story about the how human growth hormone (hGH) can produce a 0.4 second improvement in 100 m sprinting, our ears pricked up and we were listening.  It got us searching for the article immediately, only to find that the current [...]