Endocrine Abstracts

There is widespread anecdotal evidence that GH has been misused by athletes, including adolescents, for its anabolic and lipolytic properties since the early 1980s, at least a decade before GH was used therapeutically by adult endocrinologists. Since then a number of high profile athletes have admitted using GH. Despite its widespread abuse, there is debate about whether GH is ergogenic. Until recently most scientific studies have not shown a performance enhancing effect but m...

Physical activity is any body movement produced by the skeletal muscle and that results in a substantial increase over the resting energy expenditure (REE). Training is physical activity and systematic, specialized practice for a specific sport discipline. This activity may have an effect on growth and biological maturation of young athletes. For males the more successful age group athletes are on-time or advanced in biological maturation, but the opposite is true (on-time or ...