Deer Antlers really??????????

mike honcho

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Deer antlers? Yes, deer antlers.

They harvest the so-called velvet antler (a soft coating that covers deer antlers) in New Zealand, freeze-dry it and then grind it into a powder. It then gets shipped to the United States, where it gets put into either capsules or liquid extracts that can become a simple mouth spray. You can buy it for $68 a bottle.

For the elite athlete, experts say it’s essentially a human growth hormone, one of the substances organized sports is trying to keep out. The difference here is deer antlers are natural, not synthetic, and properly discovering it in a test falls somewhere between extremely challenging to virtually impossible.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=dw-deerantlers011911
 
what, our deer antlers aren't good enough to produce IGF-1? do we have to import everything???
 
what, our deer antlers aren't good enough to produce IGF-1? do we have to import everything???

And induce the wrath of PETA?!? :eek:

Speaking of which...shouldn't it be called Deer Growth Hormone? :D
 
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