Growth Industry: HGH Goes Widescreen
Happy Monday, Morphizm pals. I'm sporting a headache, and wondering if HGH will take it away. Good thing I wrote a piece on it for AlterNet recently. Inject!
Clemens Denies Taking It, Stallone Loves It -- Will HGH Go Mainstream?
[Scott Thill, AlterNet]
Roger Clemens is a terrible liar.
When he threw a shattered bat at Mike Piazza during the infamous Mets-Yankees Subway Series in 2000, he tried to tell me, the sole journalist given post-game access to him because I was also managing his personal website, that he figured the shattered stick was the actual baseball. Rather than trying again to hit the same player he had nailed between the eyes with a reportedly errant fastball earlier in the year, the Rocket argued, he was simply trying to get a confused if routine out at first. And he didn't understand or appreciate the implications opposing theories were putting him or his family through.
Two Bush terms later, and he's foisting the same dogged, determined line on Congress, but this time about something much less dangerous: human growth hormone, commonly known as HGH. And before you disagree with that admittedly unpopular position, ask yourself this: Would you want Roger Clemens throwing broken bats at your head, or would you rather he kindly inject you with HGH and help you pick up World Series wins, Cy Young awards and million-dollar endorsements along the way? It's not an easy question to answer, especially now that Congress has decided that Clemens' recent testimony in a hearing on HGH was mere theater wrapped in perjury and possibly demands a Department of Justice investigation.
But before you answer it, maybe you should consider what Rocky and Rambo icon Sylvester Stallone said after his 61-year-old body outweighed its former Rambo by an additional 40 pounds of muscle: "HGH is nothing ... Mark my words. In 10 years it will be over the counter."
Given the nexus between sports and pharma, it's hard to argue with him. It's the same logic that dictates the lucrative relationship between the erectile dysfunction market of Viagra or Cialis and the National Football League, for example. Created originally to treat hypertension and angina, which didn't work out so well, Viagra feasted on male insecurity over impotence and went supernova, which has worked out very nicely indeed ever since. Meanwhile, HGH has been used for years to treat growth deficiencies and other conditions, although in earlier days the hormones were taken from the pituitary glands of cadavers. When synthetic hormone production kicked in during the 80s and 90s, the drug crossed over with a quickness, breaking out of its conventional usage in pediatric endocrinology and going viral at pharmacological multinationals across the world. And it wasn't long until, like Viagra before it, HGH soon became known more for its ability to postpone Father Time, although for the entire body rather than just its crotch. So Stallone is probably right: It won't be long before you see HGH commercials during the Super Bowl... MORE @ ALTERNET
Clemens Denies Taking It, Stallone Loves It -- Will HGH Go Mainstream?[Scott Thill, AlterNet]
Roger Clemens is a terrible liar.
When he threw a shattered bat at Mike Piazza during the infamous Mets-Yankees Subway Series in 2000, he tried to tell me, the sole journalist given post-game access to him because I was also managing his personal website, that he figured the shattered stick was the actual baseball. Rather than trying again to hit the same player he had nailed between the eyes with a reportedly errant fastball earlier in the year, the Rocket argued, he was simply trying to get a confused if routine out at first. And he didn't understand or appreciate the implications opposing theories were putting him or his family through.
Two Bush terms later, and he's foisting the same dogged, determined line on Congress, but this time about something much less dangerous: human growth hormone, commonly known as HGH. And before you disagree with that admittedly unpopular position, ask yourself this: Would you want Roger Clemens throwing broken bats at your head, or would you rather he kindly inject you with HGH and help you pick up World Series wins, Cy Young awards and million-dollar endorsements along the way? It's not an easy question to answer, especially now that Congress has decided that Clemens' recent testimony in a hearing on HGH was mere theater wrapped in perjury and possibly demands a Department of Justice investigation.
But before you answer it, maybe you should consider what Rocky and Rambo icon Sylvester Stallone said after his 61-year-old body outweighed its former Rambo by an additional 40 pounds of muscle: "HGH is nothing ... Mark my words. In 10 years it will be over the counter."
Given the nexus between sports and pharma, it's hard to argue with him. It's the same logic that dictates the lucrative relationship between the erectile dysfunction market of Viagra or Cialis and the National Football League, for example. Created originally to treat hypertension and angina, which didn't work out so well, Viagra feasted on male insecurity over impotence and went supernova, which has worked out very nicely indeed ever since. Meanwhile, HGH has been used for years to treat growth deficiencies and other conditions, although in earlier days the hormones were taken from the pituitary glands of cadavers. When synthetic hormone production kicked in during the 80s and 90s, the drug crossed over with a quickness, breaking out of its conventional usage in pediatric endocrinology and going viral at pharmacological multinationals across the world. And it wasn't long until, like Viagra before it, HGH soon became known more for its ability to postpone Father Time, although for the entire body rather than just its crotch. So Stallone is probably right: It won't be long before you see HGH commercials during the Super Bowl... MORE @ ALTERNET
1 Comments:
Nice post.
The human growth hormone is now getting more attention as people want to look younger and live longer. These are the same with herbal erectile dysfunction treatment.
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