Thanks. Do you know if the test actually distinguishes Epogen from endogenous EPO, or is it a threshold test, like for testosterone?
let's get real. if they win, they're on epo.
Anyone can boost their red blood cell count legally by sleeping in an environment of low air pressure. With enough $$ there are numerous ways to do this. I think the winners can probably swing it, so why risk being caught doing EPO? Only a bonehead (like Ramundas Rumsas) would do this. Lance himself has stated the same recently.
Thanks. Do you know if the test actually distinguishes Epogen from endogenous EPO, or is it a threshold test, like for testosterone?
let's get real. if they win, they're on epo.
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Anyone can boost their red blood cell count legally by sleeping in an environment of low air pressure. With enough $$ there are numerous ways to do this. I think the winners can probably swing it, so why risk being caught doing EPO?
High altitude sleeping tents present some of their own problems not found with EPO. I'd guess they can use EPO up until a time they might get tested then switch over to high altitude methods, or do like many others and go live at altitude for a few weeks to get better acclimated to the stresses of sleeping at altitude.
> > Thanks. Do you know if the test actually distinguishes Epogen
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> endogenous EPO, or is it a threshold test, like for testosterone?
let's get real. if they win, they're on epo.
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Anyone can boost their red blood cell count legally by sleeping in an environment of low air pressure. With enough $$ there are numerous ways to do this. I think the winners can probably swing it, so why risk being caught
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EPO?
High altitude sleeping tents present some of their own problems not found with EPO. I'd guess they can use EPO up until a time they might get tested then switch over to high altitude methods, or do like many others and go live at altitude for a few weeks to get better acclimated to the stresses of sleeping at altitude.
>> >> Thanks. Do you know if the test actually distinguishes Epogen
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>> endogenous EPO, or is it a threshold test, like for testosterone? > > let's get real. if they win, they're on epo. >
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Anyone can boost their red blood cell count legally by sleeping in an environment of low air pressure. With enough $$ there are numerous ways to do this. I think the winners can probably swing it, so why risk being caught
doing
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EPO?
High altitude sleeping tents present some of their own problems not found with EPO. I'd guess they can use EPO up until a time they might get tested then switch over to high altitude methods, or do like many others and go live at altitude for a few weeks to get better acclimated to the stresses of sleeping at altitude.
Hematocrit values of population residing at few meters from the sea level are significantly lower than those observed in population residing in altitude and the relative percentage of subjects with values over the normal reference range is lower. Accordingly, it was proved that over 20% of athletes sustaining hard training in altitude shows hematocrit values above the reference ranges as compared to only 0.8% of athletes sustaining similar loads of training at the sea level. In a retrospective study analyzing the distribution of hematocrit levels in 278 control subjects and 46 athletes participating to the Olympic games emerged that 4% of the athletes and 2% of the control population had values over the threshold established by the CIO. In synthesis, the baseline hematocrit can rise from 4 to 14 points at 2300 and 4500 mts of altitude, respectively.
