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Are there drugs for athletes that increase strength and are not banned?

Posted December 14th, 2006 at 2:30 PM by Martha Jones

Section: News & Results, Nutrition, Supplements, Health & Fitness, Drugs In Sports

pills-2.jpgSome athletes take estrogen blockers and human chorionic gonadotropin (Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism 2006), which have not been banned by sports authorities such as the Olympic committee.

Estrogen blockers such as Tamoxifen, Arimidex, Aromasin, and Femara are used to treat women with, or at high risk, for breast cancer. Evidently lowering the female hormone, estrogen, may act the same way as raising the male hormone, testosterone, to help athletes recover faster from hard workouts.
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