Sylvester Stallone Defends HGH Use

Sylvester Stallone appeared on "Today" Friday to promote his "Rambo" sequel and he defended his use of human growth hormone. It's not like steroids! Really. According to Stallone, that's an archaic way of thinking and is like grouping aspirin with Percodan. Then he calls Matt Lauer buff.

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Sylvester Stallone appear on "Today" Friday and defended his use of human growth hormone. It's not steroids! That's like saying aspirin is the same as percodan. Really. NBC 1.18 http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1381642419http://www.brightcove.com/channel.jsp?channel=1178199204

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[LastDaysCafe]

09:08 PM on 01/19/2008

Saw Sly the other night on Letterman.­I don't know how well those HGH's are working because Sly's mug now looks like one of those rubber puppet faces on Spitting Image!

[realnoia]

12:28 PM on 01/19/2008

How the hell tall is Matt when he makes
Sly look tall? I saw Sly in Central Park
one time and he might be 5'10 in lifts.

Another Rocky? Is this guy bankrupt or what?

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dare look at me.

[heidi2360]

10:52 AM on 01/19/2008

Hmmm... another controlled substance.
Is he on steroids as well? What kind of example does that set for teens?

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[Kalima]

08:25 AM on 01/19/2008

But..but Sly,do you think it's really working?

[caps]

07:15 AM on 01/19/2008

people love to talk trash about stallone, but i'll give him a load of credit for the classic genre defining Rocky, the popcorn entertainm­ent of Demolition Man and Cliffhange­r, or the underrated Copland. obviously there are plenty of movies he has done that are worth mocking (over the top, stop! or my mom will shoot!, Rocky II-V, judge dredd, etc), but look -- he's in his 60s, and he's giving us the physical starpower that we loved him for in his prime. i know nothing about HGH, but whether it's effects are as benign as he describes or not, i don't really care if he uses it. films are not sports, and no one is being cheated if he takes amino acids to regenerate what is lost through his physical performanc­e.

[commentator]

02:53 AM on 01/19/2008

I think he looks great. Clearly botox and fillers, but also a lot of hard work on himself. I hope I'll look as good as he does when I'm in my early sixties. He actually looks so good that I immediatel­y thought of perhaps using HGH myself.

I read some political commentary he gave in an interview a couple of days ago, and he's quite astute and articulate­. That came as a total surprise to me, I've always thought that he was like his roles in the movies.

Good for him!

[Mort]

01:51 AM on 01/19/2008

How do you make a hormone? Don't pay her!

(Sorry. I couldn't help it)

[bbbbmer]

01:17 AM on 01/19/2008

Just when did Sly graduate from college, let alone with advanced degrees in pharmacolo­gy and human biology???­?? What a hasbeen putz!!!

[Steamboater]

12:20 AM on 01/19/2008

A new Rambo film? That's pretty tired and so is Stallone. He needs to give it up and play character parts. He's enough of a half-way decent actor to do that.

[Issak]

09:48 PM on 01/18/2008

Shit, Sylvester seems confusingl­y knowledabl­e and articulate­. Who knew?

[rini]

09:38 PM on 01/18/2008

HGH?

Remember your ears and nose can grow throughout your life.

Human growth hormone has not made him more attractive­.

[epictetus]

09:36 PM on 01/18/2008

He's right! HGH is made from amino acids, it's a protein! Just like Cobra Venom Factor, or Bovine Prion Protein (which causes mad cow disease), or Insulin. Thanks for clearing that up Sly!

[dogwalker]

07:54 PM on 01/18/2008

Everybody has to do something for a living.

[Wilburrr]

07:52 PM on 01/18/2008

Can we say "Denial"?

190 amino acids? There are only 21. HGH... doesn't that stand for "Human Growth HORMONE"? It's not HGAA... human growth amino acid.

I want to see a movie starring Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwartzen­grater, and Samuel L. Jackson. Sample script:

Rocky: alleagdrre­eadddydsya­ssstalll
Ahnold: Speahk betah Rahkeee, Vee kahn't ahnderstah­nd yew.
Jackson: I'm tired of the MutherF'in actors that can't speak MutherF'in English!

[DoctorDonut]

07:38 PM on 01/18/2008

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