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How are protein shakes and such 'stuff' at all approaching performance enhancing chemicals? Performance enhancing chemicals make the body do things it wouldn't
by vokep 6y ago
How are protein shakes and such 'stuff' at all approaching performance enhancing chemicals? Performance enhancing chemicals make the body do things it wouldn't normally do, directly modifying behavior to be different than it could be without that substance. Protein shakes are just providing nutrients so the body can make full use of exercise. Giving the body a nutrient rich liquid food is very different from a drug.
The one that seems a bit borderline but perhaps small enough effect and also already so commonly used by the general population anyways that its not too reasonable to consider it to be "doping" which would be caffeine.
- strbean 6y agoFirst it is protein shakes. Then creatine and other supplements. Then pre-workout stuff. Then the better pre-workout stuff someone at the gym recommended. Then you find out that pre-workout stuff was banned by the FDA for containing amphetamine analogues. Whoops, you were cheating!
- thatguy0900 6y agoFor anyone who thinks this is exaggerating they even sell "research product- not for human consumption" fda banned stuff at Walmart https://www.walmart.com/ip/Magnitude-Life-Sciences-Dark-Energy-30-Scoops/813838887 https://www.walmart.com/ip/Magnitude-Life-Sciences-Dark-Ener...
- SamReidHughes 6y agoA good example is the "Deer Antler Extract" that Vijay Singh took. It sounds like something akin to Fish Oil. Imagine if Fish Oil from CVS were banned. For all I know, it could be.
- Yizahi 6y agoYou do realize that transfusion of your own blood, even with zero 3rd party chemicals, is also doping? But it only provides nutrients too, or to be more precise concentrated result of those nutrients.
- mlavin 6y agoBlood doping increases red blood cell count and compensates for physiological changes which happen during an event like the Tour de France, it's disingenuous to call it nutrients.
- nradov 6y agoLance Armstrong and his Postal teammates routinely did blood doping during the Tour de France. They smuggled frozen blood in a hidden compartment and arranged secret transfusions in hotel rooms. All the sordid details are in "The Secret Race" by Tyler Hamilton. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/212873/the-secret-race-by-tyler-hamilton-and-daniel-coyle/ https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/212873/the-secret-r...