MGF

At the start of the year 2014 this news dominated the broadcasting about the Wintergames in Sotsji Russia.

Full Size MGF – New Doping Substance from Russia

I posted about MGF earlier here: //www.juicedmuscle.com/jmblog/content/mgf-mechano-growth-factor

The most credible German TV station (ARD, 02.02.2014) revealed with an undercover journalist that some well-known Russian biology professor/scientist (they do not mention his name) is selling a new doping substance called "Full Size MGF".

The undercover journalists got 1 milligram of the drug “Full Size MGF”,  to test it.

For 100,000 euro the rogue scientist , working at the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow , could provide an amount (100 mg ) that athletes could  use for the Winter Olympics in Sochi . The ideal time to take the product would be 2 or 3 days before a contest

They gave the "Full Size MGF" to the IOC/WADA Anti-Doping Laboratory in Cologne. According to the IOC/WADA laboratory, "Full Size MGF" acts like IGF-1, but much stronger and they also stated that they have never heard of it before and that they of course don't have any test for it. . David Howman,

 Director General of the World Anti- Doping Agency , WADA , was therefore shocked when he saw the WDR report . "It would be naive to believe that they are all athletes who will participate in Sochi are pure. " The IOC doping testing plant in 2453 in Sochi , the highest ever number of doping tests at the Games .
The most interesting part is, that this Russian biology professor/scientist is apparently selling MGF since 2010! That means the IOC/WADA might be 3-4 years late!

Is this new??

Of course NOT, in  April 2013 this headline appeared on the news and the web:

Doping probe rocks Australian sport !

MGF (Mechano Growth Factor).

Just after the second world war a hopeful world produced a large new generation. Most of them did well. They have worked their whole life and are willing to pay for pharmaceutical aids that will prolong and ease their “golden years”. They want to grow old, but they want to grow old gracefully, maintaining their youthful skills. They don’t want to spent their last years in a wheelchair or in a nursing bed with a bedpan. They want to remain mobile and have a healthy sexlife. The success of Phizers Viagra proves that. 

Authorities all over the world are facing huge healthcare costs due to an aging babyboom. The steady loss of bone mass (osteoporosis) and of lean muscle mass (sarcopenia) that accompanies aging puts an increasing strain on our health care systems. It afflicts millions of aging people all over the world. Age-related loss of muscle mass, strength and frailty caused by declining levels of  essential hormones in the body such as sex hormones and growth hormone stops them from carrying out everyday tasks and increases the riskof falling and breaking bones that are brittle because of osteoporosis. This is not only a major socio-economic as well as a major medical and financial problem, it is also important to improve the overall well-being of all these elderly. All this led to increased funds and need for scientific research towards prevention of age related diseases.  We already knew that the  exogenous administration of rhGH and sex-hormones such as Testosterone (HRT) could improve overall well-being in elderly.