Jose Canseco HCG

Former Major League Baseball player Jose Canseco was detained at the Mexican border for more than nine hours on October 9, 2008, for attempting to smuggle human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) into the United States.Daily News: Jose Canseco detained at Mexican border... (October 10, 2008) HCG is a natural hormone used by anabolic steroid users.

Canseco was charged with one count of misdemeanor drug smuggling on October 14, 2008.TMZ: One Strike Against Jose (October 14, 2008) AP: Charged with misdemeanor drug smuggling (October 14, 2008)

HCG is a human hormone produced by pregnant women. A test determining the presence of hCG is used to determine if a woman is pregnant, or as a screening for possible birth defects such as Down syndrome.Medicine.Net: Definition of Human chorionic gonadotropin It is also used by some as part of a weight loss regimen.HCG Research Clinic: he hCG (Human Choriogonadotropin) method for the treatment of obesity

HCG stimulates testosterone production. Anabolic steroids imitate testosterone, and must be taken in cycles to stave off testicular atrophy; injecting hCG restarts natural testosterone production after a user has come off a steroid cycle.MuscleTalk.com: Clomid, Nolvadex and HCG in Post Cycle Recovery It is banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency and is illegal without a prescription.Daily News: Jose Canseco detained at Mexican border... (October 10, 2008) San Diego.com: Jose Canseco detained at border... (October 11, 2008)