Raging Hormones -- NY Times

HGH is perhaps a substitute for dieting, albeit an illegal one...

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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/20/sports/playmagazine/20hgh.html
Raging Hormones
By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS, Published: August 20, 2006

Six years ago, Dr. Paul Savage was a pudgy mess. A 38-year-old emergency-room director in Waukegan, Ill., he weighed 267 pounds, suffered from high blood pressure and shortness of breath and had sallow skin that drooped in wattles around his chin. Today, at 44, he’s a new, unrecognizable man. Almost 100 pounds lighter, he boasts 12 percent body fat, a superhero jaw line and skin tone that seems almost incandescent. Savage says he owes much of his transformation to the self-administration of human growth hormone (H.G.H.).....

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