Passing steroids right up

So then there was Muscle Basketball and Muscle Baseball and of course super Muscle Football, with current teams weighing in heavier and looking like nothing you ever saw before. With more and more competitors in every sport jumping over Mother Nature for a ride on the steroid bandwagon, what can possibly come next? The mice may be telling us, according to a report in the New York Times Magazine, which described a visit to a University of Pennsylvania lab where mice had their IGR-1 factor, which promotes muscle repair and growth, increased by genetic altering. Mighty Mice, which had a 35 percent strength gain-they could climb little ladders with heavy weights on their backs-resulted from the experiment. The mice didn't lose any of it detraining, as we non-rodents usually do. Can the IGF-1 factor readily available on the Internet 'Mighty Mouse' you? No, non-genetic transfer of the protein does not reach high enough blood levels to build muscle, so there are still a few hurdles left for us humans.

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