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Athletic Drug Usage
Each year athlete’s ability to perform seems to increase by leaps and bounds. Athlete’s are running faster, throwing farther, and jumping higher. Some of reasons for this increase can be attributed to better training methods, better conditioning techniques, increased understanding of nutrition and better overall health of the athlete. Generally, these improvements involve one or more of the previously mentioned scenarios, but some athletes always seem to take it a step further. They engage in the nonethical practice of taking drugs to build mass and strength or to increase the amount of oxygen that reaches tissues, including protein hormones, artificial oxygen carriers and blood doping. These procedure do increase their athletic ability, however, they potentially may do more harm than good. Predictable Athletic drug use is becoming more and more common, and with medical advances providing better drugs, the governing bodies are finding it harder to combat their use. The process of blood doping has been highly debated for it’s ethical, moral, and physical effects on the human performance. It is my intention to discuss the practise of the performance enhancer commonly refereed to as blood doping. What is Blood Doping? Blood doping was a concept conceived in 1972 by Dr. Bjorn Ekblom of the Stockholm Institute. It was called induced erythrocythemia, which is Greek for ‘induced surplus of red blood cells’. (1) The term blood doping refers to increasing an athletes aerobic fitness or oxygen intake. (2) Since your red blood cells carry 99% of the oxygen in your blood, anything that can increases the number of red blood cells also increases the oxygen carrying capacity of your blood, thus, improving performance, especially in endurance sports, like cycling and cross country skiing. (3) Blood doping may involve homologous blood doping, autologous blood doping or ... Please login to view comments from other users.
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