Ep. 29 - The Science & History of Steroids (And Drug Testing ft. Alex Kolliari-Turner)
Iron Culture
The MASS Crew
4.8 • 827 Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2019
⏱️ 119 minutes
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Summary
Doping: the topic every 19 year old in the YouTube comments section seems to be an expert on. Maybe it’s more complicated and nuanced than the local internet culture would have you believe? In this episode, we have Ph.D. candidate Alex Kolliari-Turner on Iron Culture. He is a true expert in this field, doing his Ph.D. research on the long term effects of anabolic steroids on muscle. His research examining the impacts of steroids on anabolic signaling pathways and potential permanent retention of myonuclei may have wide-reaching impacts on how we view doping, doping detection, and the concept of being “drug-free”. In addition to the hard science, Eric and Omar discuss with Alex advancements in anti-doping, how retrospective testing is changing the face of elite sport, and how different sports cultures, societies, and governmental structures impact how commonplace doping is, the reason and pressures behind the decision to dope, the source of doping, and its sophistication.
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The papers he used in the discussion of the Podcast:
Hoffman et al 2009 Position stand on androgen and human growth hormone use
Kanayama & Pope 2018 History and epidemiology of anabolic androgens in athletes and non-athletes
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| 0:00.0 | We're just a couple natural guys in this episode today talking about hunk's hot guy babes and |
| 0:08.8 | anabolic steroids. |
| 0:10.7 | Yep, things that go hand in hand in hand. |
| 0:12.9 | Yeah, three hands, which means you need more than one person. |
| 0:15.7 | You do the math. |
| 0:16.9 | Correct. |
| 0:17.5 | You figure out what that means. |
| 0:18.9 | Three hands, hunks, hot guy babes. |
| 0:21.7 | Hey, Eric. Is it going? Yes? Is it music getting hot in here, man? I don't know. Is it? |
| 0:27.1 | As soon as this call started, I was just sweating. Sweating bullets. |
| 0:31.3 | Yeah, it's not, ooh, that's also a Megadeth song. Interesting enough, I was going to say maybe... |
| 0:37.3 | Shout out, James Krieger. Yeah. Hey, hey,. I was going to say maybe... Shout out James Krieger. |
| 0:38.6 | Yeah, hey, hey, when we have them on, people that are listening to this, they're like, |
| 0:43.2 | oh man, your line-ups really good. |
| 0:44.4 | Just wait, okay? |
| 0:45.4 | We're constantly improving. |
| 0:47.3 | We believe in the continuous process of self-improvement through just torturing ourselves, |
| 0:53.2 | stepping on stage, breaking down our bodies. |
| 0:55.7 | I'm going to be doing that in the future when I do some weightlifting. |
| 0:58.0 | But, you know, continuous Eric process of self-improvement. |
| 1:01.9 | Right. |
| 1:02.1 | As we learned from Chip Conrad, we want to have an abusive relationship with our body where we |
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