With the apparent increase in use of supplements as human growth hormone, testosterone, HGH, EPO and IGF-1 in sports (particularly cycling) during the last decade, I wonder if their use has managed to leak over to masters events...... including swimming. Seems silly to me that anyone would use hardcore muscle building agents as these in a setting such as masters so late in life. Is it worth implementing drug testing, or does it really matter in the end....... after all its just masters.
John Smith
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I'm 57 and had my serum testosterone checked at my last Physical.It was normal, but if it wasn't would I be cheating to get a supplement? Better yet,would I want to as there are NO long term studies on safety? Female hormones seemed safe for most women and then they did the long term studies and now it's not so clear. ( The situation for women is even less clear than the media suggests There are no long term studies on the use of human estrogen and progesterone. The big studies are on PremPro which is equine estrogen and progestin a synthetic coumpound. Some research suggests human estrogen and progesterone may be more benign. Premarin, the Prem in PremPro stands for "Pregnant Mare Urine" from which it is derived.)
I'm 57 and had my serum testosterone checked at my last Physical.It was normal, but if it wasn't would I be cheating to get a supplement? Better yet,would I want to as there are NO long term studies on safety? Female hormones seemed safe for most women and then they did the long term studies and now it's not so clear. ( The situation for women is even less clear than the media suggests There are no long term studies on the use of human estrogen and progesterone. The big studies are on PremPro which is equine estrogen and progestin a synthetic coumpound. Some research suggests human estrogen and progesterone may be more benign. Premarin, the Prem in PremPro stands for "Pregnant Mare Urine" from which it is derived.)
