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Quoted message said:Clenbuterol is a popular - but banned - drug used by athletes in
body-building, power-related, and even endurance sports. The chemical is
attractive to athletes because it appears to have an anabolic effect on
human muscles, and it may also increase fat metabolism. However, the
actual effects of long-term clenbuterol intake on performance, muscle
power, and overall health have been unclear.To determine some of clenbuterol's actions, scientists at the University
of Melbourne in Australia recently gave clenbuterol to laboratory rats at
dosages of 2 milligrams per kilogram of body weight per day. Some of the
rats followed a completely sedentary lifestyle, while others sprinted on
treadmills or engaged in endurance swim training. Clenbuterol did have a
couple of potentially positive effects: Sedentary rats which ingested
clenbuterol had larger muscles than clenbuterol-free, sedentary rodents,
and clenbuterol users also transformed leg-muscle cells from slow-twitch
to fast-twitch fibres, a surprising change which would tend to increase
anaerobic energy production and magnify muscle power during short, intense
exertions.However, clenbuterol also yielded three very negative changes. First,
after just four weeks, clenbuterol-treated rats were unable to maintain
their normal swimming or running training intensities, while clean rodents
were quite capable of continuing. Secondly, the hearts of the
clenbuterol-taking, trained rats increased dramatically in size compared
to the hearts of sedentary rats, but the heart expansion was probably due
to the infiltration of collagen fibres into the heart walls, not an
increase in heart-muscle cells. Collagen is a tough connective tissue
which doesn't augment heart-muscle power but in fact stiffens the heart,
potentially leading to a decrease in cardiac output. Increases in collagen
may also produce cardiac arrhythmias. Thirdly, clenbuterol rats suffered
from noticeable cardiac-cell degeneration.In addition, although sedentary, clenbuterol-treated rats were more
muscular than clenbuterol-free, sedentary rats, clenbuterol was unable to
boost muscle mass among either the swim- or treadmill-trained rodents. It
appears that, in spite of its popularity, clenbuterol is a potentially
dangerous drug which offers very few positive effects for either the power
or endurance athlete.('The Effects of Clenbuterol on Skeletal and Cardiac Muscle of Rats when
Combined with Aerobic and Anaerobic Exercise, ' Biochemistry of Exercise
Ninth International Conference Abstracts, #117, p 75, 1994)clenbuterol side effects