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Performance Enhancement Research Paper

Androstenedione – it was a perfectly legal nutritional substance that was easily accessed in a health food store, but is now banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency and classified as an anabolic/androgenic substance. What does it do, and why would someone use it? This supplement was made famous after Mark McGuire of the St. Louis Cardinals’ admitted to using it. It is now illegal to use androstenedione, as well as any other prohormone without good medical reason. The question remains though, what about androstenedione is good cause for it to be banned and illegal? What known effects does it have on one’s health, both in the long- and short-term? In order to come to any conclusions on its impact on human performance, these questions must be thoroughly investigated. It is important to understand both the advantages and disadvantages to anabolic/androgenic steroids and, more specifically, prohormones, allowing for a better......

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