RowToTri wrote:
Scottxs wrote:
It makes sense......the stuff she took doesn't provide much if any performance enhancement. If your a guy it would help with erectile dysfunction and its probably safe to say that SHE didn't take it for that reason. I get the fact that WADA is in a hard spot (no pun intended) with stuff like this. DHEA has been shown (or the evidence is mixed at best) to have no PED effects on athletes but is ban none the less. I think that WADA "throws the baby out with the bath water" just to be on the safe side and bans anything that might be performance enhancing.
I'm not arguing that DHEA, etc should not be ban. Doping is a real problem. I'm arguing that if someone "dopes" especially unknowingly the so called advantage gained by the substance needs to be judged. This substance in the OP is has little effect compared to say EPO. In that regards 12 weeks makes sense to me.
DHEA is banned because it is used as a masking agent to hide the use of other drugs from showing up in tests.
A quick google and I found Higenamine is actually a powerful stimulant with cardiovascular benefits, that would be why it is banned, and why it was in her supplement. Also DHEA is a "prohormone" -- a substance that can increase the level of steroid hormones such as testosterone.