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Androstenedione and creatine often get lumped together in press accounts (like this one) but are two very different compounds. Androstenedione (andro, for short) is an honest-to-goodness steroid and a precursor to testosterone. It is banned by the National Football League and the International Olympic Committee but not by Major League Baseball. Athletes take the supplement in the hope that their body will convert it into testosterone and help them develop bigger muscles during training...
Dream on. In a double-blind placebo-controlled trial of 20 men, published in last week's Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers from Iowa State University found that taking andro did nothing for testosterone levels. Instead, it boosted the amount of estrogen-like compounds in the blood and decreased levels of HDL, or "good" cholesterol, by 12%. Moreover, andro did not help test subjects build muscle mass at all. Scientists want to do more research to be sure, but right now it looks as though all that androstenedione consumed by would-be sluggers after McGwire broke the home...
MARK MCGWIRE Fave drug, andro, won't make you stronger but will give you breasts. He really is Babe Ruth...
...though some felt Major League Baseball (MLB) would not want to raise questions about "andro" which could tarnish McGwire's image, two Harvard Medical School (HMS) researchers have contracted with MLB for a new study of the substance's effects...
...well muscled as he, and he left it at that. Though he was criticized, McGwire marched ahead, not even pausing to rip off the head of the reporter who'd gone peeking into his locker. What kind of a modern athlete would fail to do that? As for "andro," whatever else it does, it can't help a player's timing, his hand-eye coordination, his ability to discern a slider from a splitter. But even if andro improved his power by an unlikely, oh, 5%, then instead of 70 home runs, McGwire this year would have hit... maybe...