I really don't understand this assumption that all performance enhancing substances will destroy your body. Not all doping is steriods. Some of it is for enhanc

I really don't understand this assumption that all performance enhancing substances will destroy your body. Not all doping is steriods. Some of it is for enhanced healing and recovery, something that should be researched. And in many cases abuse is the problem not use - as they say, the dose makes the poison. As we increase our ability to track and monitor drug response, internal vital statistics, and homeostasis; the notion of side-effects will become less nebulous. The problem is we are flying blind at the moment. Do you know what site specific genetic therapies, drugs for cancer, HIV, malaria and performance enhancing substances have in common? In order to not do collateral damage they all require precise delivery to targets and an understanding of how a person's genome, protein networks and metabolism interact. Any understanding that comes from a better model of these interactions will have positive knock off effects on all the other areas. Just like we have the video game industry to thank in part for modern performance computing - monetarily motivated "doping" could also impact conditions like osteoporosis, obesity, Parkinsons and ALS. Then there is an assumption that anything good must come with a cost. While it is true that nothing is free, it is not always the case that the negatives will outweigh or balance the positive. For example, in the short term it looks like anything beyond our current silicon based mouse, touch, keyboard paradigm is just pie in the sky. But if you were to go back to when computers were built from relays and vacuum tubes, their prediction of the future trajectory of computing would be drastically different from today's because transistors, ICs and VLSI did not exist yet. Biology is very complex but not all the complexity is inherent. Some of it is due to approcah. And this is changing as quantitative approaches become more prevalent and biology continues to increase the ability of its practictioners to fix radios. http://protein.bio.msu.ru/biokhimiya/contents/v69/pdf/bcm_1403.pdf http://protein.bio.msu.ru/biokhimiya/contents/v69/pdf/bcm_14...