What Do the Statistics Say about Roger Clemens’s Steroid Use?
A question that people often ask me is: if human growth hormone doesn’t enhance performance, then why do athletes use it? My response has been that athletes don’t have the proper information. My guess is that men like Kirk Radomski are spreading false information to push their product. In the next issue of Time Magazine, Sylvester Stallone weighs in on his own use of testosterone and GH. It is a prime example of how informed users may be. Playing a guy who acts with only his eyes and his biceps is harder than playing a fast-talking, earnest boxer, especially on a 61-year-old body. Which was one of the reasons Stallone wanted to do it. He pumped up to a freakish 209 lbs. (95 kg); in Rambo II he weighed only 168 (76 kg). And, he insists, he did it without steroids, though with the help of a prescription testosterone. “HGH [human growth hormone] is nothing. Anyone who calls it a steroid is grossly misinformed,” he says. “Testosterone to me is so important for a sense of well-being when yo
