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Date Posted: 10:58:12 07/27/06 Thu
Author: sundaymorning
Subject: i dont think so
In reply to: House 's message, "It Could Be The Beer!" on 10:50:39 07/27/06 Thu

>Saw this on a tri forum:
>
><a rel=nofollow target=_blank href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retri">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retri</a>
>eve&db=PubMed&list_uids=3390919&dopt=Abstract
>
>"Effect of ethanol on the ratio between testosterone
>and epitestosterone in urine.
>
>Falk O, Palonek E, Bjorkhem I.
>
>Department of Clinical Chemistry, Huddinge Hospital,
>Sweden.
>
>The testosterone/epitestosterone weight ratio in urine
>is used to detect cases of doping when an athlete has
>treated himself with exogenous testosterone. When this
>ratio exceeds 6, it is considered evidence of
>testosterone doping. We show here that intake of
>ethanol can affect this ratio. Ingestion of 110-160 g
>of ethanol, about 2 g per kilogram body weight,
>increased the ratio between testosterone and
>epitestosterone in urine from 1.14 +/- 0.07 to 1.52
>+/- 0.09 in four healthy male volunteers. The increase
>ranged from 30% to 90% in the different subjects
>studied (mean 41%). In cases where doping with
>testosterone is suspected, the possibility should be
>considered that at least part of an observed increased
>testosterone/epitestosterone ratio in urine is
>ascribable to previous ingestion of ethanol.
>
>PMID: 3390919 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]"

that study is from 1988. there's a new method that is being used now (assuming the lab is using the more recent method)which makes the alcohol false positive possibility very improbable. dennis mitchell escaped a ban using this excuse in 98 (i think) but i don't think it will fly now.

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