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I'm coach Jonathan Lee with our head coach Chad Timmerman everybody and our CEO Nate Pearson

Hello, and we are going to answer more of your coaching questions today

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Let's first start out with clarifying something we had

Correction, yeah, that was wrong. Yes, Nate. You're wrong.

Sisters listening to this and going yes

so we we're talking about caffeine last time and

From the context of it being a performance and answering drug. Yep, and I stated it's the I argue it still is a performance enhancing drug

But it used to be banned by WADA the world anti-doping agency

At high levels, but then the ban was lifted in 2004 and currently it's on their

Monitoring list or on their monitoring program and that's kind of confusing all I looked try to figure out what the monitoring program means

And it says WADA in consultation with Singletories and governments shall establish a monitoring program regarding substances

Which are not on the prohibited list, but which WADA wishes to monitor in order to detect patterns of misuse in the sport

So pretty much I have my eyes on you. Yeah, that's but it's not you can drink all the caffeine you want and not get popped for doping

And maybe what they're doing is

From an optimistic perspective perhaps just measuring that and then looking at any other type of increases or different markers

Maybe they're trying to understand how it affects you better. Who knows? I think they're just if they find

Maybe they're still

Testing the levels you know of that because if you see someone with like I don't know thousands and thousands and thousands of milligrams in their system

They might think that's right for abuse right, but so looking at this too look

I so I read through the whole

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