Mo Farah’s coach, Alberto Salazar, has made the first moves to defend his training methods...
The Mail on Sunday has spoken to one of his key associates, Dr Mauro Di Pasquale, who has been asked by Salazar to provide evidence of the legal supplements he was providing to his athletes...
Dr Di Pasquale, a former power lifter who studied molecular biology and is a certified doctor in Canada, manufactures the supplement TestoBoost...
Dr Di Pasquale has told Salazar that because the supplement was distributed by AllProTraining.com, which went bankrupt in 2002, he cannot provide those records....
Dr Di Pasquale claims to use an holistic approach to boost testosterone, adjusting lifestyle, changing diet, ensuring athletes do not over-train — and only then does he apply supplements.
He insists his products do not include testosterone, which would be banned, or even pre-cursors to testosterone; substances which would prompt the body to produce more of the hormone, that are also banned. He says the supplements stimulate the brain to encourage the body to produce its full amount of natural testosterone....
Dr Rabin, an expert in anti-doping, takes a different stance. ‘That’s the wrong approach,’ said Dr Rabin, who is unconvinced of the merits of TestoBoost. ‘At WADA we say if you supplement these hormones, in particular testosterone, to bring it back to a level when you were 20 years old, this is cheating, because you are boosting your levels and your muscles benefit from this. We’re very strict on this.’...
But Dr Di Pasquale stresses his supplements would pass any drug test....