btw: wilmar13.
If you use Insulin or a diuretic w/o a purpose or w/o other products working in tandem---you may die!
I have been on two cycling tours in Italy & France whereby two riders in our group used daily injections of insulin AND glucose. My vascular surgeon friend & I were very concerned--since these two had no medical background. This proves another point, no medical background is required to dope---but you do so at your peril!
I have no idea what the doses or ratios were for the Isulin/glucose injection---or how many years these two NON-diabetics had practiced their 'rejuvenation routines'. One drug (hormone) always begets the use/abuse of another.
It did seem to work for them as they rode strong and consistenty for 14 days in a row, and over 1,100 miles in various temperature, conditions and terrain.
Diuretics are used for doping evasion or weigh-in performances by boxers, wrestlers. Cyclists would use it to promote the 'washing machine' cleansing assumeing they had traces of 'detectable drugs (stimulants)' still in their system after 5 hours of racing' Drinking a liter of water and pissing it out might further 'wash-out' the machine.
If you think it is BS, then Lance Armstrong and Marco Pantani are the King BSers because both have been caught with insulin.
In addition, the BALCO case revealed that Marion Jones, Kelli White, Jason Giambi, and many others used insulin.
Pretty standard for anabolic training and Grand Tour Stage race recovery.
Hell, even my cycling tour used it!
Another example is the combination of testosterone (pills, patches, creams or injections) with the female hormone Clomid for better effectivess.
hCG can boost the Epitestosterone and thus assist in passing a T/E test, thereby masking the 4 to 1, 6 to 1 T/E ratio screens. The athlete can still be 'off-the charts for total testosterone, while appearing to be in full compliance at the new 4/1 ratio.
btw: Lance had plenty of hCG in his system in 1996 which was another deafening wake-up call for doping.
That Cancer story has a lot more chapters than Sally Jenkins was paid to write.
wilmar13 said:
Sign me up! I chose pretty good parents all things considered, but hey there is still room for improvement. At the very least I hope to be able to engineer my children.