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If you have questions about performance enhancing drugs in sports, this is where you’ll find answers. Is creatine safe? How about ribose, salbutamol and ephedrine? Doping in sports is a hot topic, so read on to find out… To browse our library of free sports training articles, browse using the categories on the left or use the search box.

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GABA: creatine for strength athletes

The naturally occurring amino acid known as GABA has long been know to function as an inhibitory neurotransmitter in the brain, and as such, is popular as an ‘anti-anxiety’ supplement. However, exciting new research suggests that it may also stimulate the natural release of growth hormone, which could yield benefits such as enhanced muscle recovery, strength gains and fat loss. Andrew Hamilton explains

Can body fat loss and lean muscle gain be targeted with nutritional supplements?

Can body fat loss and lean muscle gain be targeted with nutritional supplements?

Medicine Use Harms Sports performance

Athletes at risk from prescribed medicines

Prescribed drug can cause damage after eccentric exercise

Antidepressants may cause muscle damage…

Testosterone prohormone supplements: The Risks

Andro supplements don’t help and can be harmful

Pseudoephedrine's Ergogenic Effect

Drug removed from banned list is ergogenic

Performance Enhancing Drugs in Sports

Drugs in sport: why testing is not enough

Caffeine in team sports

How caffeine boosts team play

What's good, what's bad and what's plain ugly? Ergonenic aids: Positives and Negatives

What's good, what's bad and what's plain ugly?

nandrolone

Nandrolone testing

creatine

Creatine: is it really safe for long-term use?

Sports Science Glossary Part 4

Sports Science Glossary Part 4

sodium bicarbonate & sodium citrate

Sodium Bicarbonate & Sodium Citrate

antioxidant diets

Antioxidant Diets: Low antioxidant diets may hamper fuel delivery

disordered eating

Disordered eating is rare in Chinese athletes

body composition exercise

Body Composition & Exercise: Exercise intensity and body composition

banned substances

Banned Substances: Athletes still at risk of accidental doping

prohormones

Prohormones : Warning! - contaminated dietary supplements can seriously damage your career

world anti doping agency

World Anti Doping Agency (WADA) : New WADA guidelines for 2006 - how do they affect athletes?

blood doping

Blood Doping: New warning on blood doping

creatine use

Creatine Use: Long-term creatine use is safe

performance enhancing drugs

Performance Enhancing Drugs

gacik

Gacik: is it even better than creatine?

drugs in sport

Drugs in sport: From EPO to gene doping: Ron Maughan on the ceaseless quest for the undetectable magic bullet and the sterling efforts of the 'good guys' to stay ahead of the game

modafinil

Modafinil: Banned drug works as ergogenic aid

nsaids

NSAIDS: Contraction-induced muscle injury - why NSAIDS don't help

adenosine

Adenosine: ATP is no creatine

salbutamol

Salbutamol: Ergogenic effects of salbutamol

creatine supplements

Creatine supplements: Selective effects of creatine

serum ferritin levels | iron overload

Serum ferritin levels: Iron overload in cyclists

drugs in sport

Drugs in sport: “Far from being unfair, drugs that enhance performance actually promote equality”

drugs sport

Drugs in sport: Let athletes take drugs, but I don't want them in my club - or at my Olympics'

ribose

Ribose - Why ribose does not make the grade as the 'new creatine' for sports performers

hodiola rosea | cordyceps sinensis

Hodiola rosea & cordyceps sinensis - Chinese supplements don't work for cyclists

exercise induced asthma

Exercise induced asthma: Take a deep breath - and learn to manage your asthma without falling foul of doping regulations

creatine vegetarians

Creatine for vegetarians

ADHD drugs in sport

ADHD drugs in sport

anabolic steroid abuse

Anabolic steroid abuse - Another risk of anabolic steroid abuse

Human Growth Hormone | hGH

Human growth hormone hGH - Don't waste money - and risk your reputation on human growth hormone; make your own instead!

contraceptive pill and performance

The Pill may be the most effective contraceptive and the best way to manipulate your cycle for important events, but are you aware of its physiological effects and their impact on performance?

Steroids in sports: The effects on blood pressure

Steroids - How steroids raise blood pressure

performance enhancing drugs | supplement contamination

Performance enhancing drugs: How to protect yourself - and your reputation - from drug contamination

ephedrine

Ephedrine effects

oral contraceptives | athletic performance

Oral contraceptives and athletic performance

Dietary Supplements: the use of legal and illegal drugs in sport

When the price for sports drugs is just too high.

Nasal Strips: do breathing techniques improve performance?

Nasal strips: improving your breathing rate

Creatine reduces mental fatigue and boosts performance!

How Creatine Can Prevent Mental Fatigue

Creatine: how it effects sports performance

The effects of creatine supplementation on performance

Creatine supplements can boost your endurance training without encouraging weight gain

The correct dose of creatine will improve endurance athletes performance without making them gain weight!

Creatine and carbohydrates in the body

Factors modifying creatine accumulation in human skeletal muscle

HMB supplements- do they work for athletes?

HMB supplement benefits may not be so significant for trained athletes

Will taking echinacea supplements help beat a viral infection?

Echinacea - Ward off infection with 'the prairie doctor'

Creatine: the side effects of this performance enhancing supplement

Creatine side effects: Supplementation with creatine is safe - but it works best for men

Testosterone: the andro supplement may not be as effective as you think

Androstenedione effects - do andro supplements really work?

Recovery time: the effectiveness of creatine is influenced by the recovery intervals you take!

Creatine and recovery intervals

How crocodile blood can improve sports performance!

Anyone for Crocodile Haemoglobin?

athletes' lungs | training | asthma | lung diseases

How training takes its toll on athletes' lungs

fat burning zone

Fat burning zone - Why athletes, fitness enthusiasts and slimmers should steer clear of the fat burning zone

aerobic exercise | depression

Aerobic exercise beats drugs for depression

Delayed muscle soreness - aspirin

Delayed muscle soreness - is it worth taking an aspirin?

Pyruvate supplements

Pyruvate supplements get the thumbs down

Creatine

Creatine now shown to boost performance in trained sprinters

Creatine

Creatine: Now school kids are creatine users

Coffee

Coffee to go: how caffeine may shave seconds off your time

Genetics

Genetic engineering and sport: has the future already arrived?

Salbutamol

Salbutamol does not boost endurance

Zinc deficiency

Zinc deficiency: the risk for athletes

Creatine

Creatine: Sedentary elderly gain most from creatine supplementation

Steroids

Steroids boost injury risk from strength training

Distance events

Distance Events: The risks of going long: when the super-fit endurance athlete turns into the heart attack victim

Nutrition

Nutrition: The latest wisdom on supplements: look, listen and think - before you eat (or drink)

Blood substitutes

Blood Substitutes: New blood substitutes pose lethal risks

Steroids

Steroids boost injury risk from strength training

Steroids

Steroids boost injury risk from strength training

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