Professional sportsmen taking path of steroids under raw power obsession
The quest of attaining solid muscles and performance improvements is guiding professional sportsmen to anabolic steroids such as Tetrahydrogestrinone (THG).
Approximately 9 percent of bodybuilders paying a visit to gymnasiums in the United Kingdom were found to make use of steroids to improve the quality of muscles and performance, as per a study.
From MedicalNewsToday.com:
Made from the male hormone testosterone, they provide a chemical shortcut to strength and endurance. They promote the development of muscle, reduce fatigue and speed recovery after physical exertion by stimulating the production of protein. This makes them especially attractive to sprinters, weightlifters and throwers such as shot putters, for whom raw power is all-important.
The addition of four hydrogen atoms was all it took to make the anabolic steroid, gestrinone, undetectable by standard tests. A clever bit of work by chemists transformed it into tetrahydro-gestrinone (THG), providing some sportsmen, apparently, with the means to cheat.
The alarm was raised when a used syringe with a barely visible residue inside it was provided by an anonymous track and field coach to the US Anti-Doping Agency. From that residue, a University of California laboratory was able to identify the droplets as THG and then devise a test that would detect it in athletes‘ urine.
UK Sport said yesterday the test for THG would be introduced in Britain as soon as possible. About 7,500 random drug tests are done each year by sport’s governing body, of which 2 per cent are positive.
Stimulants such as ephedrine were found to be the second-most popular sports drugs for sportsmen after anabolic steroids.
Tags: anabolic steroids, ephedrine, sports drugs, Steroids, Tetrahydrogestrinone, THG
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