Author: Thomas Oconnor

Pitfalls of steroid use

Steroids make the news quite often, but with the Olympic Games here again steroids and “doping” are back in the headlines. When a young girl from China, which happens to be one of the countries with a history of steroid use by it’s athletes, is able to beat Ryan Lochte’s record everyone wants to know how she did it.

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Doping allegations raise questions of possible new peptide science

Olympic athletes go through rigorous training to become the best they can be at their sport. They also go through equally rigorous testing for performance enhancing drugs. The latest doping allegations in the Olympics surrounding Chinese swimming phenom Ye Shiwen will either prove that rigorous training has prevailed to produce the world’s fastest female swimmer or it may just prove that IOC testing cannot keep up with modern day peptide science that is capable of producing amazing athletic performances…

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