#496 - Alexander Hutchison on IN DEFENSE OF DOPING

Alexander Hutchison, PhD, is an expert on sports performance and author of IN DEFENSE OF DOPING: REASSESSING THE LEVEL PLAYING FIELD. He chats with Trey Elling about the need to rethink certain performance-enhancing drugs in sports, due systems and testing protocols that are both inconsistent and hypocritical. Topics include: The book's inspiration (0:00) Defining 'doping' (9:43) PEDs fall into 1 of 3 categories (12:53) WADA's hypocricy (15:14) The value of HGH (21:07) A PED paradox in sports vs life (27:16) The Tour de France & PEDs, a history (33:35) MLB's gains & losses with PEDs (39:34) "Protecting the children" (41:35) Clenbuterol (47:15) Potential solutions (50:37) Drugs that should remain illegal (53:52)