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Old fella makes a good point. But he also thinks he himself is using HGH in pill form. :lmao:
Larry King Thinks Professional Athletes Should Be Allowed to Use Human Growth Hormone
American television and radio broadcaster Larry King thinks professional athletes should be allowed to use human growth hormone (hGH). King recently shared his thoughts on the matter when he spoke to the Confidential columnist for the New York Daily News on January 10, 2016.
“I don't know why HGH (Human Growth Hormones) is banned. It just makes you recover quickly. Why isn't aspirin banned?” King said. “If you have a headache, you take aspirin and the headache goes away.”
It was not the first time that King has spoken out in favor of legalizing hGH in professional sports. In April 2015, King told TMZ that he supported hGH use in baseball. However, the 82-year old broadcasting legend was mistakenly under the impression the he had been using hGH for the past 18 years.
“I don't know why they don't (allow hGH). I've been taking hGH. I've been taking it for 18 (years),” King claimed. “I don't take the injections. I take the pills… I don't know why they banned it. It makes you recover faster from injury.”
Unfortunately, real pharmaceutical HGH is only available via injection. Dietary supplements that purportedly contain hGH are generally considered ineffective since the peptides would quickly be deactivated by digestive enzymes. King may have been referring to the so-called hGH boosting supplements which are not at all comparable to injectable pharmaceutical hGH.
King is one of the more prominent advocates of growth hormone use in sports. While anti-steroid crusaders may dismiss King's opinion as irrelevant, King's six decades in broadcast journalism has given him a platform that commands a sizable audience.
King has been a baseball fanatic since his uncle took him to a Brooklyn Dodgers game in 1943. He has interviewed several legends in the sport including his childhood heroes Jackie Robinson, Casey Stengel, Ted Williams, Leo Durocher and Stan Musial. As a fan of the sport for over six decades, Kings doesn't think baseball's “steroid era” disqualified modern legends from the Baseball Hall of Fame.
“I'd vote for (Barry) Bonds and (Roger) Clemens because I think they were Hall of Famers before (steroid) use,” King told Confidentil.
And if the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA) doesn't vote to elect Bonds and Clemens to the Hall of Fame, King thinks that perhaps they should create a special Hall of Fame solely for steroid users.
“Maybe baseball should have a steroid Hall of Fame...” King wrote on Twitter on March 22, 2015.
Larry King Thinks Professional Athletes Should Be Allowed to Use Human Growth Hormone
American television and radio broadcaster Larry King thinks professional athletes should be allowed to use human growth hormone (hGH). King recently shared his thoughts on the matter when he spoke to the Confidential columnist for the New York Daily News on January 10, 2016.
“I don't know why HGH (Human Growth Hormones) is banned. It just makes you recover quickly. Why isn't aspirin banned?” King said. “If you have a headache, you take aspirin and the headache goes away.”
It was not the first time that King has spoken out in favor of legalizing hGH in professional sports. In April 2015, King told TMZ that he supported hGH use in baseball. However, the 82-year old broadcasting legend was mistakenly under the impression the he had been using hGH for the past 18 years.
“I don't know why they don't (allow hGH). I've been taking hGH. I've been taking it for 18 (years),” King claimed. “I don't take the injections. I take the pills… I don't know why they banned it. It makes you recover faster from injury.”
Unfortunately, real pharmaceutical HGH is only available via injection. Dietary supplements that purportedly contain hGH are generally considered ineffective since the peptides would quickly be deactivated by digestive enzymes. King may have been referring to the so-called hGH boosting supplements which are not at all comparable to injectable pharmaceutical hGH.
King is one of the more prominent advocates of growth hormone use in sports. While anti-steroid crusaders may dismiss King's opinion as irrelevant, King's six decades in broadcast journalism has given him a platform that commands a sizable audience.
King has been a baseball fanatic since his uncle took him to a Brooklyn Dodgers game in 1943. He has interviewed several legends in the sport including his childhood heroes Jackie Robinson, Casey Stengel, Ted Williams, Leo Durocher and Stan Musial. As a fan of the sport for over six decades, Kings doesn't think baseball's “steroid era” disqualified modern legends from the Baseball Hall of Fame.
“I'd vote for (Barry) Bonds and (Roger) Clemens because I think they were Hall of Famers before (steroid) use,” King told Confidentil.
And if the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA) doesn't vote to elect Bonds and Clemens to the Hall of Fame, King thinks that perhaps they should create a special Hall of Fame solely for steroid users.
“Maybe baseball should have a steroid Hall of Fame...” King wrote on Twitter on March 22, 2015.