Just level the field and open the flood gates. Allow any and all PEDs to be used at the athletes own risk. Every sport, every league, the Olympics, anything goes! Juice it up, snort it, take pure adrenaline between rounds. Lets see what we can do. Greg Jackson can create real life marvel comic super heroes in his basement. As long as an athlete’s actual human DNA is not altered they may compete.

I have another idea, let’s just make all athletes sleep for 8 hours before their event starts and only be allowed to wake up 30 minutes before.

If it’s legal and you can’t overdose on it (reasonably), then I don’t think it should be regulated. It’s the guys shooting each other in the ass with drugs that would get you or me 10-15 in the federal pen that I want stopped. Illegal substances that enhance your performance should be the sole purview of the athletic commissions.

My two tests are:
1. Is it ultimately harmful to the athletes’ health?
2. Is it prohibitively expensive, such that not athletes could afford it?

If the answer to both is no, then I’m okay with it. I’d have to iron out the details, but I think that this is a decent start.

A new article doesn’t mean the information is new. Caffeine supplementation in strength sports waxes and wanes constantly.

We all have our opinions on what big time athletes should/shouldn’t take. But what do we take ourselves?

Myself:

GNC Joint vitamin pack
DHEA 25
NOXplode
1-2 protein shakes per day
1/2 a 5 hour energy if I am sluggish or on little sleep
G2 after workouts
this stuff called MediTropin that is supposed to boost your body’s GH production, but I take it because it helps me sleep better and recover a little better
1 large coffee every morning
I add sugar to nothing and try to limit how much I take in

I would say this is 200-300 bucks a month and I probably will cut a couple of things out for that reason. I know many athletes get free supplements if they are sponsored by a company or outlet, but otherwise, they may be spending a lot of money on this stuff.

List what you guys use. I think it would be interesting to see what items you take, how much you spend and what you feel benefits from taking.

I’ve studied the history of drugs, and it’s absurd how illegal stuff got that way. Marijuana was associated with blacks and Mexicans during the 1900s, and of course respectable Americans couldn’t be seen doing the same substances as them! THC, MDMA, LSD, and DMT all have proven medical benefits, yet are illegal. Alcohol and nicotine don’t do jack, but are perfectly acceptable. If someone is angry or unruly, are they more likely to be high or drunk? How many people have OD’d on pot?

Make no mistake, I certainly don’t favor legalizing everything, and some, like psychedelics, should be prescribed or strictly therapeutic, but the current regulating are flat-out retarded. Now that NSAC and cohorts are testing for THC, caffeine, they’re overlooking actual beneficial policies, like preventing old, damaged fighters from competing.

So that Xyence stuff really works then.

if you assume that 100% of fighters do not use caffeine pre workouts AND prefights, then youre in a fantasy world.

MOST of them also do prohormones of some form. so get real. its called a cycle and you can time it perfectly to piss clean come fight time. how else do you think they recover so quickly and gain so much LEAN muscle mass in an ungodly, short pd of time?

wake up guys.

What’s great about this news is that I don’t use any products that contain caffeine, thus allowing me to stay atop my moral high horse and look down on the unwashed masses who poison their bodies with these substances. Just a good multi-vitamin, some BCAAs, and Whey for me.

Oh, did I mention that no one has ever offered to pay to watch me compete in any athletic endeavor in which I’ve taken part?

(No, I’m not suggesting caffeine or any other performance enhancing supplements are required to become a professional athlete, I’m just being self-deprecating).

Also, for whatever it’s worth, I almost never use Acetaminophen or Ibuprofen, either. My jiu jitsu instructor “stack(ed) Ibuprofen with Advil,” with harrowing consequences.