The menopause hormones are for after a cycle of anabolics. They are essentially estrogen blockers. When an athlete comes off a cycle (usally 10 weeks) of anabolics, their own ability to produce testosterone (test) is degraded. In short, estrogen cancels test. An estrogen blocker will allow what little test to be more effective until the athlete can produce is own.
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Thanks for the info, I wondered why menopause hormones were useful.
As for Mexico, its been an open secret for a while now that teams head there fro 'training'. I dug out an old copy of 'Procycling' (May 2006) which quotes Marc Madiot as saying 'This year, one of the major revelations of the Tour went to Mexico for a training camp just before the race began. Before that, the guy couldn't get over a railway bridge. At the Tour he was transformed.' For a period of a couple of years the Mexican federation didn't carry out any dope tests, although now, at least publicly, the federation appear to be trying to change that.