Doping in Sport - How Natural and Synthetic Drugs Enhance Performance

Through doping, we now fully understand the use by athletes of substances prohibited by the anti-doping agencies in order to gain a competitive advantage. Since sport plays an important role in physical and mental education and in promoting international cooperation, the widespread use of doping products and methods has consequences not only on health of the athletes, but upon the image of sport more generally. Depending on the sport practiced and the physical attributes it requires, athletes will always be looking to increase body recovery capacity after training or injury, to increase muscle mass and strength or endurance, or simply decrease fat tissue. In this podcast, I will discuss how athletes can enhance their performance by injecting natural and synthetic substances - and the very real dangers of using these substances. (With thanks to our sponsor 'Curriculum Press' for providing content for this podcast)