as he explained to al jazeera reporter, he went to see dr dale geyer who runs an anti ageing clinic. >> i went because i was dealing with this overwhelming fatigue. i was sleeping 14/15 hours a day. i couldn't get out of bed in the morning. >> reporter: dr geyer told him he needed human growth hormone >> he felt it would raise my energy level and help me return back to the land of the living. >> reporter: dr leonard geyer was also named in a criminal indictment against a colorado pharmacy, illegally importing hgh in china. he wasn't a defendant or charged with any wrongdoing, but he was one of the doctors who allegedly purchased the drug for patients. earlier this week al jazeera's investigative unit revealed that charlie sly, who had done part of his pharmacy training at the geyer institute, said human growth hormone had been shipped to peyton manning's wife ashleigh. following this report, while he wrote about his own experience at the geyer clinic with hgh. he knew it was banned for professional athletes. as a patient, he had no idea it's also illegal for a doctor to prescribe it