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Tour de France champion Alberto Contador is blaming his positive doping test on bad steak -- and experts are backing him up, the Associated Press is reporting.
The test spotted clenbuterol in the cyclist's system, a drug that's long been used by bodybuilders to increase muscle mass and reduce fat. Clenbuterol also boosts energy -- actually, the drug's short-term effects are similar to amphetamine drugs.
But the drug is also given to cows, chickens and pigs, to hurry up the animals' growth before we eat them, and that's why some sports medicine experts are siding with Contador. Anyway, he would've had to eat "vast quantities of meat" for the drug to have had an affect on his performance, Dr. Andrew Franklyn-Miller, a sports medicine expert at the Centre for Human Performance in London and a team doctor for Britain's rowing team, told AP.
Good to know.
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Before the verdict is in, I think someone will need to determine how to differentiate the amount of the drug in his system from ingesting the actual substance versus getting it through beef, etc. I'm not ready to say he's innocent until I hear from the experts.
Before the verdict is in, I think someone will need to determine how to differentiate the amount of the drug in his system from ingesting the actual substance versus getting it through beef, etc. I'm not ready to say he's innocent until I hear from the experts.
Producers in EU might do that kind of BS over there, but in the USA butte is use in any livestock production. Some more bull from the vegans who don't like meat eaters.There isn't enogh useable productive ground to feeed the world. Beef is the only animal to convert grasses to protein for humans.
ANYTHING can taste like steak when your stoned! >]
ANYTHING can taste like steak when your stoned! >]