Professional leagues attend HGH summit in California

MLB reports on the HGH summit in Beverly Hills, CA:

The use of performance enhancing drugs in sports remains a serious and sensitive issue, and baseball officials joined some of the best and brightest minds in the field Monday to discuss the topic in broad terms while more specifically addressing human growth hormone (HGH). A joint effort by Major League Baseball and the UCLA Medical School held the Growth Hormone Summit: Barriers to Implementation of HGH Testing in Sports...

The ultimate goal of the conference participants would be to create a reliable and universally acceptable test for the use of HGH in athletes, both at the amateur and professional levels. The scientific community is not in complete agreement about performance-enhancing properties as they pertain to HGH

This is a longish report on the meeting, with many elements documented on the summit.  One investigator looked at the effectiveness of HGH:

Part of Monday's presentation included the substantiation of claims that HGH is a performance enhancer. Richard Holt, MD, PhD of the University of Southampton School of Medicine, said HGH not only builds muscle mass but also reduces fat mass.

But Holt also reported the lack of reliable data to determine how much an athlete benefits from HGH. It has been theorized that HGH has been used by athletes for the past 25 years, while the scientific community has been playing catch-up, only gaining ground in the last year in an effort to create a test.

Holt also said, and other speakers on Monday agreed, that HGH is likely used in concert with other agents such as anabolic steroids. Holt further detailed long-term health issues related to prolonged use of HGH.

Then there is the issue of HGH testing:

Having a reliable test for the detection of possible performance enhancers, all agreed, is critical to the integrity of baseball and all sports. Labs have been making strides.

"We're definitely seeing progress. I wish I could tell you we have a growth hormone test today. We don't," said Don Catlin, a leader and pioneer in performance-enhancing drug tests. "I can tell you we have made substantial progress that I am excited about."

Orza (Gene, MLB Player's Association) said the players would be on board once there is a breakthrough.

"We are not opposed to blood testing. We have said we will consider blood testing when the time is right for it," Orza said. "When someone is able to determine whether or not that human growth hormone independently is performance enhancing."

Catlin, who was the founder and past director of the UCLA Olympic Analytical Laboratory, said it took some 20 years to develop a reliable test for anabolic steroids. He said the industry is in the middle of similar progress for HGH. Catlin cited specifically the size of the molecule in growth hormone as compared to anabolic steroids but also the problem of extracting growth hormone from a urine test.

This exciting development in HGH testing:

The efforts of those assembled Monday received a recent boost from Lance Liotta, MD, PhD of George Mason University, who is applying nanotechnology techniques previously used in cancer research to testing for HGH.

"That is what is exciting about what Dr. Liotta is doing. He has a technique that we think will do that," Catlin said. "It is really brilliant."

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