COBALT AND VITAMIN B12 IN ROUTINE DOPING CONTROLS

COBALT AND VITAMIN B12 Elevated urinary cobalt concentrations identified in routine doping controls can originate from vitamin B12 (Publication)     Summary In 2015, cobalt was added to the World Anti‐Doping Agency’s (WADA’s) Prohibited List, and the use of products resulting in the uptake of pharmacologically relevant amounts of inorganic cobalt has been banned for athletes at…

EXPERTS WARN BEFORE FOOD SUPPLEMENTS BASED ON PROHORMONES

DANGEROUS PROHORMONES AS NUTRITION SUPPLEMENTS     The internet is expanding business with new doping products. The speech is about prohormones. This is a group of substances with anabolic effects. Trading with them is also a profitable business in Slovakia. Their sales are bordering on the law. Experts are talking about extreme dangers. Despite the…

OSTARINE CONTAMINATED NUTRITION PRODUCT WAS USED BY WRESTLER

USADA HAS RECOGNIZED A POSITIVE TESTED ATHLETE FOR OSRATINE   Photo: USADA   According to a USADA announcement dated August 31, 2018, was positively tested wrestler Victoria Francis of Colorado Springs, Colo., for banned substance ostarine (Group S1, 2 – Other Anabolic Substances, Subgroup Selective Androgen Receptor Modulators / SARMs / 2018 Prohibited List). The…

ASADA ATHLETE WARNING FOR HIGENAMINE

ATHLETE WARNING: HIGENAMINE IN SUPPLEMENTS Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (further than „ASADA“) on 8 August 2017, ASADA published an athlete warning on the banned substance Higenamine, following a spike in the number of detections. Since then, six more Australian athletes have tested positive for Higenamine, bringing the total number of positives for that substance to…