So, guys, Derek, more platesmore dates.com. Today we're going to be talking about doping in football.

This was an interesting thread that came up on the subreddit that I thought was worthwhile to

touch on. I've touched on it briefly in the past, but I thought a dedicated video to

actual pulmonary capabilities and some of the mediums utilized to kind of leverage, I don't know, like

doping modalities and endurance sports would be worthwhile to get into above and beyond the standard,

you know, blood transfusions, hematological fuckery that goes on.

This is about asthma, diagnosesoses and actually getting prescribed drugs to enhance

lung capabilities essentially in non-asmatic elite soccer players or football players,

whatever you prefer to call it.

63% of Liverpool FC players have asthma, video idea for Derek.

By contrast, 9% of the population of asthma on average, because they allegedly have asthma,

they can take a normally banned drug called salbutamol.

So if you guys don't know, salbutamol is the chemical name for albuterol.

So if you've ever heard of clenbuterol before,

this is a beta 2 receptor agonist that is used in bodybuilding quite often as a fat burning agent,

as well as something that can induce mTOR phosphorylation and is useful at low dosages for

females for actual hypertrophy without the androgenicity

that comes from anabolic endergenic steroids.

It has some performance enhancing effects above and beyond its ability to increase energy

expenditure, but also it's mainly used as a, like these are drugs designed for asthma applications.

So albuterol is similar in this class of medications and is often prescribed as an inhaler,

but it also comes in oral formats and injectable.

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