Researchers from Rutgers University in North Carolina, United States observed, how to plant hormone gomobrassinolid affects on laboratory rats, unexpectedly found, that this plant hormone leads to a noticeable increase of muscle mass and muscle strength in experimental animals. Although experiments on humans have not yet carried out, scientists hope, that the new plant hormone can be used as substitutes of anabolic steroids. It has been suggested, that new medicines are an alternative to steroids, can be created from the usual mustard, which is most full of these natural plant hormone.