Anthony Galea, a Canadian doctor who has treated golf star Tiger Woods in addition to baseball and American football players, was charged Tuesday with unlawfully distributing human growth hormone.

In a federal criminal complaint filed in Buffalo, Galea was charged with unlawful HGH distribution, smuggling, conspiracy to lie to US officials, conspiracy to defraud commerce with the unapproved drug actovegin.

The Toronto-based doctor is charges with providing two HGH kits to a former NFL player. ESPN reported that two NFL players said they were clients of Galea but did not receive HGH from him.

No athletes were named in the filing but Galea's most famous clients include Major League Baseball star Alex Rodriguez and Woods, who has denied ever taking any performance-enhancing substances.

Woods said the only treatments he received in five meetings with Galea were for blood spinning, where a person's own blood is placed in a centrifuge and reinserted into the body, ideally with greater healing properties.

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