NFL adds game-day drug testing

[threelittleturds]

NFL adds game-day testing

I'm really glad that the NFL got this done. I remember reading about the deer antler story a year ago, where NFL players brazenly stated that they used the stuff because it wouldn't show up unless the league did blood-testing and tested at the right time. (Game-Day)

Deer antler Spray

 

[Ray_Dogg]

Got my fingers crossed that none of our players get popped.

 

[PWilly52]

yea that would suck but they definately needed to do it this way.

 

[MW49ers5]

I can see it now; game day, Cincinnati, the Bengals text Goodell to ask if they can play with 9 guys!

 

[threelittleturds]

I can see it now; game day, Cincinnati, the Bengals text Goodell to ask if they can play with 9 guys!

Ha ha, I think the Bengals are safe. The first sentence said something about how the game-day testing is for performance enhancing products, not recreational drugs.

 

[MW49ers5]

Ha ha, I think the Bengals are safe. The first sentence said something about how the game-day testing is for performance enhancing products, not recreational drugs.

Ahhh, okay, that text will come later in the season then.

 

[spacedoodoopistol]

The problem is that as these things get more advanced, the line between legal physical therapy and performance-enhancing drugs gets more and more blurry.

Read a fascinating article last week on cnnsi.com, written by former pitcher C.J. Nitkowski (I think) talking about the new stem cell therapy some athletes are using to rebuild joints. They take your blood and spin it super fast until you have the various components sorted......and what you end up with is basically the natural, bodily-produced form of HGH. Then you re-inject it into the shoulder and it starts repairing. Hardly any different than HGH, other than its naturally produced vs. made in a lab. This stuff is going to get very complicated over the coming years.

 

[Ray_Dogg]

Wow that is freaky.

 

[MW49ers5]

Technology - it is one of the reasons I would love to live forever, just so I can see where it will all lead.

 

[spacedoodoopistol]

Yeah....check it out:

C.J. Nitkowski's experience with stem cell treatment - The Bonus - SI.com

 

[EaseUrStorm]

The problem is that as these things get more advanced, the line between legal physical therapy and performance-enhancing drugs gets more and more blurry.

Read a fascinating article last week on cnnsi.com, written by former pitcher C.J. Nitkowski (I think) talking about the new stem cell therapy some athletes are using to rebuild joints. They take your blood and spin it super fast until you have the various components sorted......and what you end up with is basically the natural, bodily-produced form of HGH. Then you re-inject it into the shoulder and it starts repairing. Hardly any different than HGH, other than its naturally produced vs. made in a lab. This stuff is going to get very complicated over the coming years.

This is similar to how cyclists were taking blood out at higher altitudes and putting it back into their body at lower altitude phases. Very difficult to regulate that and there was apparently a clear performance boost. Only this is a lot more advanced.

 

[Arete Tzu]

This is similar to how cyclists were taking blood out at higher altitudes and putting it back into their body at lower altitude phases. Very difficult to regulate that and there was apparently a clear performance boost. Only this is a lot more advanced.

I don't follow cycling, and never heard of this. Sounds interesting. Do you know any articles I could up on it a bit?

 

[Yoshi]

This is similar to how cyclists were taking blood out at higher altitudes and putting it back into their body at lower altitude phases. Very difficult to regulate that and there was apparently a clear performance boost. Only this is a lot more advanced.

It's essentially blood doping - you have blood removed, refrigerated, stored, then have the athlete train and get his own blood back - since it's his own blood (autologous), there will be no adverse reaction to it so it's essentially getting a boost, and an illegal one at that.

I have to research the HGH method because in all honesty I've never heard of it.