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The company - Advocare - is also endorsed by Larsen Jensen. Their products have been banned by the NCAA.
This is starting to smell real bad.....
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Looks like a scapegoating tactics by Jessica Hardy and her team. Here's more on the banned 'Clenbuterol '.
www.signonsandiego.com/.../20080725-9999-1s25olyswim.html
Clenbuterol is listed under banned anabolic agents, which build muscle and hasten recovery. It also possesses stimulant qualities and is sometimes prescribed to asthma patients.
Another benefit: Some steroid experts claim that Clenbuterol, if taken orally, generally clears the body in four days – and perhaps less if smaller doses are ingested.
“It has faster clearance than any of the anabolic steroids, and it's an anabolic substance,” BALCO doping guru Victor Conte said. “It will accelerate healing and tissue. It could also be used as a stimulant but would more likely be used between events to enhance recovery.”
blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/.../kirk_blasts_dopetest_timeline.html
Bremerton swimmer Tara Kirk, citing "incompetence, laziness and deceit" among those responsible for dope-testing swimmers and establishing the U.S. Olympic team, today vowed to petition for what she says is her her rightful spot on the Beijing squad in light of a reported positive doping test by swimmer Jessica Hardy, who finished ahead of Kirk in the Olympic Trials.
Ultimate Nutrition was the company that Kicker Vencill sued and won a lawsuit against for coming up positive a few years back.
Ultimately, he even realized that you/we as swimmers are responsible for what we ingest/inject into our bodies....nobody is holding them down and forcing them. His suspension was reduced but not vacated completely....
To believe the elite swimming circle is clean is simply laughable. All of them are using drugs. I simply refuse to believe world record can be broken like nothing without performance-enhancing drugs involved.
To believe the elite swimming circle is clean is simply laughable. All of them are using drugs. I simply refuse to believe world record can be broken like nothing without performance-enhancing drugs involved.
Yep....everyone of them.....
As Walter would say....."Hold on to that dream pal"
Phelps, Coughlin, Beard - everyone of them! Well with that said there is no reason to watch the Olympics....we can all go home now!!!:violin:
From an FDA web site:
Overview of Dietary Supplements
www.cfsan.fda.gov/.../ds-oview.html
Excerpts:
What is a dietary supplement?
Congress defined the term "dietary supplement" in the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) of 1994. A dietary supplement is a product taken by mouth that contains a "dietary ingredient" intended to supplement the diet. The "dietary ingredients" in these products may include: vitamins, minerals, herbs or other botanicals, amino acids, and substances such as enzymes, organ tissues, glandulars, and metabolites. Dietary supplements can also be extracts or concentrates, and may be found in many forms such as tablets, capsules, softgels, gelcaps, liquids, or powders. They can also be in other forms, such as a bar, but if they are, information on their label must not represent the product as a conventional food or a sole item of a meal or diet. Whatever their form may be, DSHEA places dietary supplements in a special category under the general umbrella of "foods," not drugs, and requires that every supplement be labeled a dietary supplement.
Who has the responsibility for ensuring that a dietary supplement is safe?
By law (DSHEA), the manufacturer is responsible for ensuring that its dietary supplement products are safe before they are marketed. Unlike drug products that must be proven safe and effective for their intended use before marketing, there are no provisions in the law for FDA to "approve" dietary supplements for safety or effectiveness before they reach the consumer. Also unlike drug products, manufacturers and distributors of dietary supplements are not currently required by law to record, investigate or forward to FDA any reports they receive of injuries or illnesses that may be related to the use of their products. Under DSHEA, once the product is marketed, FDA has the responsibility for showing that a dietary supplement is "unsafe," before it can take action to restrict the product's use or removal from the marketplace.
Does FDA routinely analyze the content of dietary supplements?
In that FDA has limited resources to analyze the composition of food products, including dietary supplements, it focuses these resources first on public health emergencies and products that may have caused injury or illness. Enforcement priorities then go to products thought to be unsafe or fraudulent or in violation of the law. The remaining funds are used for routine monitoring of products pulled from store shelves or collected during inspections of manufacturing firms. The agency does not analyze dietary supplements before they are sold to consumers. The manufacturer is responsible for ensuring that the "Supplement Facts" label and ingredient list are accurate, that the dietary ingredients are safe, and that the content matches the amount declared on the label. FDA does not have resources to analyze dietary supplements sent to the agency by consumers who want to know their content. Instead, consumers may contact the manufacturer or a commercial laboratory for an analysis of the content.
Advocare seems to be your typical multi-level marketing company that does supplements. They have many products that span the spectrum of the athletic supplementation genre. They remind me of EAS, GNC, etc. I don't consider them on the fringe of this industry. Still on Hardy to check anything she puts in her body.
This quote from the article is interesting:
The commonly held belief that the government approves these over-the-counter dietary supplements is incorrect. There is evidence that some products may not contain the ingredients listed on the label in the stated amount, may not contain the ingredients listed at all, or may be contaminated or adulterated with other prohibited substances not listed on the label.
So if you use any of these supplements the burden is on you to make sure they aren't contaminated. Nobody else is checking for you. That would be a shame to endorse the product only to find out the company effectively screwed you.
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Let's take a broader look at the people that make up her "team". How is it, fellow forum posters, that one coach has at least 3 swimmers testing positive due to supplements or other? (Assuming the article is factually correct) What's the liklihood of this?
Does club wolverine, UT/Reese, Athens bulldogs and all those other well known names - do their coaches have this many swimmers testing positive? I don't think so!
