Hormone Use and Abuse by Athletes

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Ghigo, Ezio (Editor), Lanfranco, Fabio (Editor), Strasburger, Christian J. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2011.
• Edition: 1.
• Series: Endocrine Updates, 29
• Subjects: Medicine.; Cardiology.; Endocrinology.; Medicine & Public Health.

Several hormones are able to influence physical performance and body composition. Thus, a bi-univocal interrelationship between exercise and hormones exists. In Hormone Use and Abuse by Athletes, new developments on metabolic and endocrine responses to exercise are revised and the topic of hormonal...