Sylvester Stallone owes his bulging biceps and tremendously toned 61-year-old physique to human growth hormones – a substance better known as HGH.

“HGH is nothing. Anyone who calls it a steroid is grossly misinformed,” Stallone told Time magazine, E! Online reports.

The muscle-enhancing drug is legal but has been highly scrutinized and banned by the majority of professional sports.

Stallone returned to the big screen Friday with the fourth installment of Rambo, a role the action star originated in 1982. It took the Oscar-winner 41 pounds of prescription-HGH-enhanced muscle to get back into Rambo form and reincarnate the famous character.

“Testosterone to me is so important for a sense of well-being when you get older,” Stallone said, “Everyone over 40 years old would be wise to investigate it, because it increases the quality of your life. Mark my words. In 10 years, it will be over the counter.”

Stallone was recently fined more than $10,000 in Australia for bringing a large amount of synthetic hormone into the country without a permit. The actor defended the possession of said hormones and told reporters that he has taken HGH “for years”.






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