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Hi guys, was speaking to a doctor friend last night, who happened to know some stuff on performance enhancing drugs, in particular epo as some of you may know is used to treat certain kidney related and diabetic illnesses. He said that a long term user of epo often the dosage gets smaller over time and it is easy to maintain a higher than average red blood cell count. He basically said that when an athlete for example first starts they would probably take 3 vials a week or something along those lines, and those red blood cells eventually leave your system after 4 months but the drug in actual fact leaves your system pretty much after 7 days it cannot be detected. But after those 4 months you generally reduce the number of vials to probably 1 a week or every couple of weeks and get the desired result.
Forgive any mistakes that I have made but I have no technical knowledge on the subject area and am just remembering the main points this person talked about. So I told him you know I am a big boxng fan and explained the whole manny v floyd thing, and he said that hypothetically manny wouln't be starting from ground zero as his red blood count would already be above normal and that he could take the drug before he even started training and the desired effect will be there. He said the only way for the drug testing to be effective for epo would be for it to be implemented over the course of AT LEAST 6 months-1 year. As after a couple of weeks the increased red blood cells start blending in with the others, or something like that.
Now I have no definitive opinion on manny on ped's either way, im really not sure but I just thought this was interesting for a couple of reasons, 1. that the ost for this fight testing for epo would be very easy to beat if the fighters were using it, 2. the cut-off whatever it may be would have no bearing on the fighters being able to get the benefits of epo as it normally takes 4 weeks to see maximum effects.
Forgive any mistakes that I have made but I have no technical knowledge on the subject area and am just remembering the main points this person talked about. So I told him you know I am a big boxng fan and explained the whole manny v floyd thing, and he said that hypothetically manny wouln't be starting from ground zero as his red blood count would already be above normal and that he could take the drug before he even started training and the desired effect will be there. He said the only way for the drug testing to be effective for epo would be for it to be implemented over the course of AT LEAST 6 months-1 year. As after a couple of weeks the increased red blood cells start blending in with the others, or something like that.
Now I have no definitive opinion on manny on ped's either way, im really not sure but I just thought this was interesting for a couple of reasons, 1. that the ost for this fight testing for epo would be very easy to beat if the fighters were using it, 2. the cut-off whatever it may be would have no bearing on the fighters being able to get the benefits of epo as it normally takes 4 weeks to see maximum effects.
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