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My position as director of research and product development for an
endurance athlete supplement company dedicated to safe pharmaceutical
grade supplements requires that I occasionally address questions from
elite endurance athletes on how best to dose specific "performance-
enhancing" substances. Of the 2217 questions answered since 1998, less
than 1% were concerned with steroid, stimulant, blood profile influences
for performance gain. These queries are typically posed by elite level
amateurs or pro athletes. A high percentage of the inquirers are primarily
concerned with performance but will respond favorably to education of
potential risks to health. Those few who refuse to discontinue illicit use
of harmful-to-health performance-enhancing supplements do indeed lack
appropriate judgement but no lack of focus for their performance-enhancing
goal. A safe alternative to illicit, harmful-to-health, unethical use of
performance-enhancing substances presently exists. A balanced organic
diet, periodic rest, interval intensity, and prolonged duration training
protocol forms the basis of this alternative. On a secondary tier, various
substances such as krebs cycle intermediates and cyclic anaerobic
substrates are rapidly depleted but slowly replaced. It is well agreed
that these depleted substrates may be replaced faster in concentrated dose
than through less-concentrated food sources. In repletion dose only, the
depleted subject advantages their own physical environment for a
performance advantage over the subject choosing not to ingest the
concentrate source. Neither subject is at risk to health harm nor has
imposed an illicit act against the ethics of fair sportsmanship.
Professional education against harmful drug use in sports is severely
lacking, and with access to such information, risk of harm from illicit
performance-enhancing substances may be remarkably reduced.
Bill Misner Ph.D.
I declare a "competing interest" favoring the use safe supplement
dose as a means of replacing those substrates expended during exercise
stress. The motive of this comment is to suggest proper safe supplement
use is rationally superior to illicit, health-harmful, performance-
enhancing supplements.
Performance-Enhancing Supplements
My position as director of research and product development for an
endurance athlete supplement company dedicated to safe pharmaceutical
grade supplements requires that I occasionally address questions from
elite endurance athletes on how best to dose specific "performance-
enhancing" substances. Of the 2217 questions answered since 1998, less
than 1% were concerned with steroid, stimulant, blood profile influences
for performance gain. These queries are typically posed by elite level
amateurs or pro athletes. A high percentage of the inquirers are primarily
concerned with performance but will respond favorably to education of
potential risks to health. Those few who refuse to discontinue illicit use
of harmful-to-health performance-enhancing supplements do indeed lack
appropriate judgement but no lack of focus for their performance-enhancing
goal. A safe alternative to illicit, harmful-to-health, unethical use of
performance-enhancing substances presently exists. A balanced organic
diet, periodic rest, interval intensity, and prolonged duration training
protocol forms the basis of this alternative. On a secondary tier, various
substances such as krebs cycle intermediates and cyclic anaerobic
substrates are rapidly depleted but slowly replaced. It is well agreed
that these depleted substrates may be replaced faster in concentrated dose
than through less-concentrated food sources. In repletion dose only, the
depleted subject advantages their own physical environment for a
performance advantage over the subject choosing not to ingest the
concentrate source. Neither subject is at risk to health harm nor has
imposed an illicit act against the ethics of fair sportsmanship.
Professional education against harmful drug use in sports is severely
lacking, and with access to such information, risk of harm from illicit
performance-enhancing substances may be remarkably reduced.
Bill Misner Ph.D.
I declare a "competing interest" favoring the use safe supplement
dose as a means of replacing those substrates expended during exercise
stress. The motive of this comment is to suggest proper safe supplement
use is rationally superior to illicit, health-harmful, performance-
enhancing supplements.
Competing interests: No competing interests