Mexican meat on doping alert

• April 23, 2024

The German Anti-Doping Agency (NADA for its acronym in English), he issued a warning to his athletes, that if they travel to Mexico they run the risk of eating contaminated food with clenbuterol . Through a press release, the NADA suggests that athletes traveling to Mexico and China should be careful with their diet.

The alert in Mexico is due to the fact that a few days ago the existence of clenbuterol in two people who traveled to this country for three days, apparently for consuming meat contaminated with this substance. According to a study published by the Manfred Donike Institute and the Doping Preventive Research Center , from the University of Sports of Cologne, point out that in our country "there is a high risk of doping involuntary through ingesting clenbuterol ”.

What is it?

The clenbuterol It is not a steroid, nor an anabolic. It is a stimulant of the Central Nervous System (CNS). Both athletes and bodybuilders use this drug for its thermogenic effects (fat burner corpora l), base their foundation of use of clenbuterol in the belief that by increasing the temperature by half a degree, it produces a 5% increase in the calories consumed for body maintenance.

This drug is on the list of prohibited substances and methods. In small doses the clenbuterol it does not improve the records of the athletes. However, in large quantities it provides a significant increase in protein synthesis.

It is known that in high doses, the heart rate , tremor in various areas of the body and insomnia . It also elevates blood pressure and favors the development of heart diseases or, even, it can get to cause the sudden death.

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