819 Performance Enhancing Drugs-Doping for the gold

In this episode, Dr’s J and Santhosh cover the history and use of performance enhancing drugs. Along the way they cover when olympic drug testing started, the banned categories and how they work, tour de france popular drugs, masking agents, anabolic steroids, beta blockers, trimetazidine, famous instances of doping and more! So sit back and relax as we teach you about the many drugs people have used to go for the gold!Further Readinghttps://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanhae/article/PIIS2352-3026(17)30105-9/fulltexthttps://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/14/sports/olympics/valieva-drug-test-heart-medications.htmlhttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-oly-dop-day1-idUSBRE86R0DA20120728Support Us spiritually, emotionally or financially here! Twitter: @doctorjcomedy @toshyfro Instagram: @travelmedicinepodcast Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/28uQe3cYGrTLhP6X0zyEhTFacebook: facebook.com/travelmedicinepodcast https://travelmedicinepodcast.com/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/travelmedicinepodcast Gmail: [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.