Dallas Cowboys Coach Wade Wilson Suspended For Using HGH to Fight Diabetes
The NFL suspended Dallas Cowboys quarterbacks coach Wade Wilson (a type 2 diabetic) after he admitted to purchasing HGH or human growth hormone. A banned substance in the NFL that violates the league’s drug policy.
Wilson, who also played in the league from 1981-98, apologized for his actions but he felt the need to explain why he did what he did. He said he used human growth hormones to help fight type 2 diabetes. “I wasn’t taking the product to enhance performance,” he said. “I am way past that. I was taking it to improve my quality of life. At no time did I think I was doing anything illegal or against league policy.”
Wilson did admit to ESPN that he got the drugs “without proper medical supervision.”
The suspension of the coach came about after a federal investigation into an Internet pharmaceutical company found Wilson to be one of its customers when he coached for the Chicago Bears. New England Patriots safety Rodney Harrison was also named as a customer and he was suspended by the league also.
As for rumors that Wilson might be buying drugs for others, he nixed that notion immediately. “The idea that I was trying to get this for anyone else is absolutely ludicrous,” he told ESPN. Wilson said he used the drug because of bouts of fatigue, sleeplessness and kidney and vision problems caused by diabetes.
He said side effects from the HGH caused him to discontinue it. The Cowboys organization offered its support of Wilson and it said the club would welcome him back once his suspension is over. Wilson’s suspension will end on Oct. 9.
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With the position Wade Wilson has, how could he not know he was violating NFL policy. If he really wanted a solution for the problems he was experiencing relating to his diabetes, he would have seen his doctor and received treatment. In the hyper-sensitive state that sports are in relating to performance enhancing drugs, he would have never risked purchasing it just to treat his diabetes. He wasn’t giving it to players, and TO wasn’t trying to kill himself on pain meds.
[...] Studies are showing that excess levels of HGH can cause some pretty serious health problems. Human Growth Hormone effects many areas of the body which includes effecting the maintenance and function of pancreatic islets. So does this mean that everyone who has used HGH will develop diabetes? Coach Wade Wilson of the Dallas Cowboys did. [...]
THis is the most absurd article I have ever read. First, SUGAR causes diabetes not HGH, what a total slab of crap, and who tried to feed this to you and I. HGH will not give you diabetes and it certainly wont worsen it, once you got it you got it. After 30 years of this stupid disease I would give anything not to have it, it slowly kills you, if HGH would HELP me I would go get it tomorrow. OUr medical community only wants us to do what they can make money on, simple as that, nothing fancy just money. come on get real
How silly is this? Leave Wade alone and let his use it to fight his diabetes. Unless of course he was buying it to give to players which I doubt.
Jim
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