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Date Posted: 08:07:43 07/27/06 Thu
Author: Steve in ATL
Subject: Re: interesting article
In reply to: sundaymorning 's message, "interesting article" on 08:00:25 07/27/06 Thu

>posted by person on velonews forum:
>
>
>"To this, dopers responded by taking extra doses of
>epitestosterone with their testosterone, so their T/E
>would remain in balance. Testers, in turn, began
>treating elevated epitestosterone levels as
>suspicious, too. But that still left athletes with the
>claim that they were among the few with naturally
>elevated testosterone. Testers, then, were forced to
>take multiple urine samples, measuring an athlete's
>T/E ratio over several weeks. Someone with a naturally
>elevated T/E ratio will have fairly consistent ratios
>from week to week. Someone who is doping will have
>telltale spikes--times immediately after taking shots
>or pills when the level of the hormone in his blood
>soars. Did all these precautions mean that cheating
>stopped? Of course not. Athletes have now switched
>from injection to transdermal testosterone patches,
>which administer a continuous low-level dose of the
>hormone, smoothing over the old, incriminating spikes.
>The patch has another advantage: once you take it off,
>your testosterone level will drop rapidly, returning
>to normal, depending on the dose and the person, in as
>little as an hour. "It's the peaks that get you
>caught," says Don Catlin, who runs the U.C.L.A.
>Olympic Analytical Laboratory. "If you took a pill
>this morning and an unannounced test comes this
>afternoon, you'd better have a bottle of
>epitestosterone handy. But, if you are on the patch
>and you know your own pharmacokinetics, all you have
>to do is pull it off." In other words, if you know how
>long it takes for you to get back under the legal
>limit and successfully stall the test for that period,
>you can probably pass the test. And if you don't want
>to take that chance, you can just keep your
>testosterone below 6:1, which, by the way, still
>provides a whopping performance benefit. "The bottom
>line is that only careless and stupid people ever get
>caught in drug tests," Charles Yesalis says. "The lite
>athletes can hire top medical and scientific people to
>make sure nothing bad happens, and you can't catch
>them."
>
>http://www.gladwell.com/2001/2001_08_10_a_drug.htm

Yeah, I'd seen that. Someone else here did as well, hence his comment "he forgot to take his patch off..." or something to that effect. Thanks for posting, though, because I'd lost the link.

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  • Re: interesting article -- nsf, 08:19:13 07/27/06 Thu
  • Re: interesting article -- smug, 08:21:31 07/27/06 Thu
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