Medical Question to a Doctor regarding Supplements.
Former Member
When competing last week in Hawaii, I read in the Honolulu Star Bulletin newspaper from Saturday May 18, in page A5, an advertisement promoting a product stimulating the release of the Human Growth Hormone by the body.
I read in it: "Practically EVERYONE over the age of 40 has a Growth Hormone deficiency.". I am age 43, and even though I trained more than ever for the past year, I swam slower in Hawaii in 100 free and 200 free than I did last year, which was slower than in 1998, which was slower than in 1996, which was slower than in 1994 when I peaked in yards competitions. Because of this, I kept reading:
by taking the product advertised in the newspaper "In the FIRST MONTH: You should expect: Improved stamina;...".
My question for a Medical Doctor familiar with competitions, regards one specific side effect of such a product, not approved by FDA. I remember reading in the Swimming World magazine in mid-90s, when Chinese Olympic swimmers were being caught on illegal products, that a possible side effect of Human Growth Hormone stimulants given to adults, was an increase of extremities like nose, hands, ears and forehead. A picture of the swimmer Massimiliano Rosolino (Ita.) who in the 2000SydneyOlympics won gold, silver and bronze medals, picture published in 2000 in www.nbcolympics.com, semmed to me to show the increase of the nose. www.nbcolympics.com didn't mean to imply anything like this, this is my interpretation of Rosolino's face. It is publicly documented now, that Rosolino took Human Growth Hormone stimulants before the Olympics.
My question is:
The product advertised in Honolulu Star Bulletin as being a Human Growth Hormone stimulant, does increase the nose?
If so, what safer supplements achieve "...improved stamina..."?
San Francisco Chronicle did mention once before the 2000Olympics, two Olympians who were achieving with legal supplements the outcome of illegal products.
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Former Member
~~ I don't see with a good eye me writting an e-mail May 28 asking for information, then work out almost every day under the coach, and get a reply June 3. ~~
Not everybody checks their email every day. If I'm gone (or just not near my email) for a couple days then I have a couple hundred messages piled up when I check my IN box - and it'll be another few days before I get to them all. Unless you know all the inside details of your coach's life and business, you are likely not in a position to judge whether or not he answered your email in due course. If you are not pleased with the business relationship (or the coach/athlete relationship) you have with him then you should first talk it over with him, instead of airing it here - and though you don't name him you gave enough details so that many (most?) of the readers here know precisely who you are talking about. If he's reading this, your words won't be helping to win his undying support.
~~ I don't see with a good eye me writting an e-mail May 28 asking for information, then work out almost every day under the coach, and get a reply June 3. ~~
Not everybody checks their email every day. If I'm gone (or just not near my email) for a couple days then I have a couple hundred messages piled up when I check my IN box - and it'll be another few days before I get to them all. Unless you know all the inside details of your coach's life and business, you are likely not in a position to judge whether or not he answered your email in due course. If you are not pleased with the business relationship (or the coach/athlete relationship) you have with him then you should first talk it over with him, instead of airing it here - and though you don't name him you gave enough details so that many (most?) of the readers here know precisely who you are talking about. If he's reading this, your words won't be helping to win his undying support.