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Firstly, I want to say that if Billy Joe really was intentionally using Oxilofrine for a doping edge, he should get the appropriate punishment. Billy Joe needs to give up the nasal spray, inhaler, prescription, etc and show the product he used and where it came from just like what was expected from Canelo.
For me, the next step is waiting for the testing samples to be made public. I'm sure a theraputic dose from a nasal spray would be much different than a dose from illicit purposes.
Secondly, I've personally done a metric ton of ephedrine derivatives when I was training (it was legal then). Ripped Fuel was amongst them and was the weaker of what I was taking. I used Ripped Fuel in the beginning and quit using it early on, it made me too jittery. I used to take a very strong stack of two different products and it did NOT increase my speed or power.
I was able to train for longer and was ready to hit the ground running when it kicked in, but no extra speed or power --- thats not true. Maybe Oxilofrine is way stronger than what I was taking, but I have doubts because I don't think the human body could take anything stronger than the stack was taking.
I'm also curious if Conte might be showing some bias here due to Andrade being part of the SNAC team which Conte owns. He also mentions another one of his fighters Willy Monroe and thinks Billy Joe was doping then and for Lemieux. Seems like he's very emotionally invested here. I've never known Conte to be bias so I hope he's not here.
At 4:19 Conte says it was an inhaler, I thought this was nasal spray?
If Billy Joe said he got an inhaler from his trainer, that is really really suspect. So is the nasal spray thing off the table now?
At 14:17 Conte is really blaming the Oxilofrine on Billy Joe acting like a ***** ******? That reeks of bias. Then the bits at the end about Billy Joe's kid? Come on man, he's really emotionally invested here.
Conte is claiming his weight loss amount of 30 pounds in a month is suspect. I dunno is it really? I mean look at Hurd, the guy drops 10lbs in 24 hours (or was it 48).
Just having a quick look, Oxilofrine is also known as Methyl-Synephrine. Conte keeps referring to it as Synephrine which is a good search query.
Not a super credible source, but these body-builder guys tend to know their stuff.
"You would have to take about 90mg Synephrine to have similar effects to 25mg of ephedrine."
Source: https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showt...11&pagenumber=
"I did a bit of research on synephrine and got the basics, it's basically a watered down ephedrine."
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/Fitness/com..._vs_ephedrine/
Be back later, got to run.
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