Ep 757: The Truth About PEDs in Sports
Power Athlete Radio
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4.8 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2024
⏱️ 99 minutes
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Join us as we dive into the controversial world of performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) with none other than Dr. Alexander Hutchison. From the gladiators of ancient Rome to the pelotons of modern cycling, we trace the storied history of PEDs, separating fact from fiction and challenging the myths that have long surrounded their use. Discover why some PEDs should never have been banned and the surprising truth about those that should. This is a no-holds-barred discussion you won't want to miss. Tune in and get ready to have your mind blown.
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| 0:27.2 | Hey, Power at the Nation. |
| 0:28.5 | I have a ribbiting podcast for you today with Mr. Alexander Hutchinson, who wrote a book called In Defense of Doping, Reassessing the Level Playing Field. |
| 0:38.2 | We get into an interesting conversation with a lot of twists and turns and looking at performance enhancing from where it first started, you know, with the Greeks and the Romans eating, you know, high protein diets and, you know, supplementing with wine before matches all the way through, you know, East Germany for the first systematic countrywide performance enhancing system to go out and, you know, |
| 1:00.6 | make East European women's swimmers the best. And then all of a sudden, all the way through |
| 1:05.5 | professional sports and, you know, the baseball era and really what we got down into a lot with |
| 1:10.0 | Lance Armstrong and the |
| 1:11.2 | doping scandal for the Tour de France. So really fascinating discussion looking at, you know, |
| 1:16.4 | not only has performance enhancing been a part of sports for as long as people have been competing |
| 1:21.5 | at them, but also if there's a time now for having a level playing field and really just deciding whether or not |
| 1:28.4 | these drugs really cause performance enhancing and if they have a place and really if it even |
| 1:34.1 | makes sense to test people instead of just educating them and finding a more level playing ground. |
| 1:38.8 | So I want you to buckle up for a riveting conversation, Dr. Alexander Hutchinson. |
| 1:43.7 | I'd actually like to talk about |
| 1:44.6 | the book a bunch. I think it's a really interesting proposition, you know, about leveling the playing |
| 1:48.8 | field and effectively, you know, I mean, performance enhancing, like you get into the book, |
| 1:54.7 | it's been something that's existed for so long. Why not just make it all legal and at least level |
| 1:59.0 | the playing field? So you have the instead of having the haves and the have-nots. |
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