Lionel Messi used HGH injections - legally - as a child to overcome genetic deficiencies and grow into one of the top goal-scorers in the world.
The world’s greatest soccer player started using human growth hormone at the age of just 9 years old and continued to use it systematically for more than four years.
And it was perfectly legal.
The use of HGH in a normal bodied human being acts as an anabolic steroid, but for Lionel Messi, it merely enabled to him to overcome a condition known as growth hormone deficiency and reach his natural height. The spectacularly skilled Argentinean is no giant, standing just 5-foot-6, even in his cleats. Without treatment, though, doctors believe he would have reached only 4-7 as an adult.
The intervention took the form of injections every night, Messi grimacing in pain as the needles were jabbed into his skin by his father Jorge. Even then, the growth in his stature was slow.
The development in his soccer career was not.
Indeed, in some ways Messi’s condition actually helped lay the foundation for his elevation to elite status, rather than serving as a barrier.
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