June 26, 2009
Major League Baseball has agreed to cooperate with the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) in investigating where Manny Ramirez obtained his illegal supply of human chorionic gonadotrophin (HCG). HCG was the drug Ramirez tested positive for — banned only as of last year — which resulted in his 50 day suspension, costing him millions of dollars. It is a female hormone produced by the developing embryo and placenta and is what a pregnancy test is based on.
Why baseball players? The exogenous anabolic steroids they inject cause the natural production of testosterone to decrease or cease altogether, which leads to testicular shrinkage. Without going into detail, injected HCG acts as a different female hormone in the male steroid abuser’s pituitary, which orders the testicles to resume production of testosterone and hopefully restore testicular size. Macho men with raisinuts use female hormone to become “men” again.
And Ron Santo is stll not in the Hall of Fame. Just wrong.
Anyway the DEA is tracking down what doctor prescribed it for him. There are no medical indications for HCG in men – so there is no way to justify it – unlike anabolic steroids and Human Growth Hormone (HGH) where there are some legitimate medical indications. Though nothing a healthy athlete would need.
According to the AP,
ESPN investigators suspect the prescription for HCG, or human chorionic gonadotropin, was written Pedro Publio Bosch, a doctor in Florida since 1976. His son, Anthony Bosch, supposedly worked as a go-between for the doctor and Ramirez.
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