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Warning to HGH Users: New Test means athletes will be busted for using it.
For years, athletes have enjoyed the benefits of Human Growth Hormone in their quest to pack on lean muscle and get stronger. And the best part about HGH for pro-athletes was that there was no reliable test to catch anyone who was using the substance. But now authorities have developed a test that works and they plan to use it to expose HGH users.
With each passing month, authorities and sporting officials treat the usage of steroids and Human Growth Hormone as if it is the sign that society has completely failed. And in an effort to catch the ‘diabolical fiends’ who choose to use the ultimate forms of anabolics in order to build muscular bodies, the government has spent millions of dollars trying to develop tests for different types of roids and HGH.
For many different forms of steroids, researchers have succeeded in developing workable tests that can detect juicers. But for Human Growth Hormone, they’ve been stumped for quite some time as to how they can nab suspected users with just a simple test.
The subject has even been at the forefront of the news lately as National Football League commissioner, Roger Goodell, gave the first ever “state of the league” address with HGH testing being the headlining topic of the press conference. He said that the NFL cannot begin testing players for using HGH because, “There is no reliable test right now.” However, he may have spoken a little too soon.
That’s because the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) has announced that researchers have now developed a reliable Human Growth Hormone test that will be available to the world by the end of 2007. In fact, USADA senior managing director Larry Bowers firmly believes that testing on athletes will begin before the year is up.
This should come as a relief to the prudes who believe that the world is being destroyed by substances like HGH as people will no longer be able to use it with the clear confidence that they’ll never be caught. But the story doesn’t end here though as there are still some complications with the testing that worry anti-doping officials.
As Bowers explained, “The limitation on that test is that there\'s only a couple of days window. No advance notice (with notification of testing) is crucial.” So basically, the USADA would follow a policy of randomly testing different athletes at any time so that there was no way to avoid to avoid a positive test.
To address these limitations, work on another test that will be able to detect HGH in a person’s body beyond just a couple days has already begun. And Bowers is confident that a new and improved test will be developed not long after the first one is released. By the middle of 2008, he fully expects a HGH test that can detect usage for up to 10 days to be available worldwide.
If a better testing procedure was developed, the USADA and other anti-doping committees such as the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) would not have to infringe upon the lives of athletes as much which has become a major issue in the past. Those who’ve been randomly tested before for other banned substances such as steroids have actually been pulled away from vacations to be taken to a testing facility.
The announcements of these HGH tests come as both Bowers and USADA general counsel member Travis Tygart were recently in New York this week discussing new anti-doping policies with various sports journalists from magazines and newspapers across the globe. They defended some of their procedures, such as the random testing one, and explained how they try to respect the rights of athletes in the process.
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But what was perhaps the second biggest announcement made at this conference aside from the HGH test that will be implemented at the end of the year was that USADA will be creating a very unique system of keeping track of athletes with regards to substances. This cutting edge setup would be based off of what would be called “athlete profiles” which is really a fancy name for measures of natural substances in the body like testosterone, cholesterol, and hemoglobin.
The system would work, in theory, by tracking the consistency of the natural substance levels in each athlete so as to get a good idea of what their body chemistry would look like when they are clean. Jumps in any levels of certain substances within a person’s body would raise the question of whether the athlete might be using a drug or supplement that has been banned by different anti-doping organizations.
The reasons for the sudden interest in creating such an elaborate system for catching athletes who are doping were best answered by Tyson Tygart when he said, “We want to create a culture where winning by cheating is unacceptable. We\'re here to prevent the potential of injury to others. And we\'re here to protect the integrity of sports.”
But there are still a lot of questions to be answered regarding this vision of substance level profiling within athletes. For one thing, the plan doesn’t specify who the athletes that will be tested for these levels are going to be or how many of them will be undergoing tests. It doesn’t really state the costs for this plan either which, depending upon what the answer to the first question is, could be very pricey. Another thing to ponder is the reality that a new supplement athletes might use could throw the procedure all out of whack.
And what of the new HGH tests as well? One has to wonder if researchers have actually made a breakthrough and really have a 100% reliable test or if it is just more hype. Similar stories were reported before the 2000 Olympic Games in Sidney, Australia that a new blood test could be used to detect Human Growth Hormone use in athletes. As you may have suspected, the test was proven to be very inaccurate and was quickly disbanded.
So, despite the major stirs created in the news lately, you really have to wonder if the new HGH test and athlete profiling will be all that anti-doping officials say it will be or if they’ll both be a huge mess and wind up being another waste of money. The next couple of years should show some major developments in these stories, or perhaps even nothing at all.
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