The Mitchell Report named dozens of Major League Baseball players who are connected with the use of performance enhancing drugs, including human growth hormone. However, professional baseball players probably aren't too concerned about the Mitchell Report. According to a recent article in The Enquirer, it is hard to trace human growth hormone via a blood test and possible to find it with a urine test. That's because human growth hormone occurs naturally in the body. The pituitary gland synthesizes HGH. In fact, you can enhance the level of human growth hormone in your body by exercising frequently and ensuring you get enough sleep.
Some athletes use human growth hormone because it speeds up the healing process. HGH is particularly popular among baseball players because they often injure their muscles from repeated batting and pitching. The Enquirer article claims that the use of human growth hormone is a chief worry of the World Anti-Doping Agency because there is no efficient way of testing for it. It seems unlikely that anybody will develop an effective test for HGH before the 2008 Olympic Games.
