Do athletes use crushed antlers as a performance enhancer?

[DawnStorm]

The discussions you hear at the dog park! This past weekend, someone mentioned that the latest performance enhancer for athletes was ingesting powdered deer antlers. No cite, just one of those out-of-the blue statements that came from discussing the newest dog chew (antlers).
"I'll have to check Snopes.com for that!" says I.
Well I did, and nothing came up, so here I am on the message board side, posting the question.

Dawn--feeling horny--Storm

[A Turtle Named Mack]

Antlers have long been powdered and used as aphrodisiacs in the Far East. In fact, for years Boy Scout troops in the American West have collected shucked off horns and sold them to exporters to support their camping and other activities – beats selling popcorn. That is a different kind of performance-enhancement than sports activities, but I could well see athletes giving it a go.

see - http://www.naturalnurse.com/naturalaphro.htm

[crocoduck_hunter]

And like most forms of "alternate medicine" that include the consumption of animal body parts (bear gall bladders being a notable exception) there's no actual curative or performance enhancing agents in antlers. They're just bone (and velvet, depending on the time of year).

[A Turtle Named Mack]

I think the ground antler is consumed in a Japanese fermented soy broth, making a soup called "miso horny"

[Chloe]

*groans and yet is forced to applaud*