restlers. Athletes use it to gain the strength advantage; to be able to jump higher, hit harder, and in basketballs case to be taller (Shipe,54). The original purpose of synthesizing HGH was to be able to give to children who dont produce enough of it and have stunted growth. There are many deformities that occur from this through out the stages of ones life. Their body begins to grow disproportional including large chins, heads, and hands(Goldman,111). As I have shown there are many advantages and disadvantages to ergogenic aids. It is the athletes choice to use them but they will suffer the side affects. In choosing the athlete has to weigh the options of whether or not the slight edge they get in the sport is worth the risk of severely hurting their health. The risk of getting in trouble with the association they are participating in is another risk they have to choose if they want to take or not. If they are caught by the association then they will be unable to do what they wanted to do and that is compete....
