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3 years ago via Twitter about Manny Ramirez

Why was Manny Ramirez taking a women's fertility drug?

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dcanswerer | 3 years ago view on twitter
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The drug can be used as a masking agent to cover up steroid use. It basically kicks your body back into making testosterone.

From ESPN:
"...two people with knowledge of the case told ESPN's Mark Fainaru-Wada and T.J. Quinn. The sources said that in addition to the artificial testosterone, Ramirez was identified as using the female fertility drug human chorionic gonadotropin, or hCG."

And later in the article:
"ESPN reported earlier that testing showed Ramirez had used hCG, which is typically used by steroid users to restart their bodies' natural testosterone production as they come off a steroid cycle. It is similar to Clomid, the drug Barry Bonds, Jason Giambi and others used as clients of BALCO."

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=4148907

Here is some more information about hCG:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_chorionic_gonadotropin

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nurseannie | 3 years ago view on twitter
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HCG is used to not only stimulate fertility in women, but also testosterone production in men. It is also used in boy to treat delayed puberty. Apparently he saw a physician and he states that the doctor gave him a medication that he thought was ok. Apparently he didn't ask what it was. In an interview this was the only statement that was made, and no further information.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090507/us_nm/us_baseball_dodgers_ramirez_7

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