I don't think I am being ridiculous in questioning the effectiveness of microdosing EPO when there are no good studies into it.
Anecdotal evidence is something different.
What you have posted is interesting, certainly.
I would also like to say that the biological passport has caught quite a lot of athletes so it may not be as easy as they make out in that article to beat anymore.
I wonder how the biological passport is being beaten if it monitors pretty much all the relevant blood markers to do with oxygen carrying capacity including RBC, haemoglobin and haematocrit. It doesn't just test for EPO. So if an athlete is taking tiny amounts of EPO but their blood remains within normal levels on all counts then where is the enhanced performance coming from? On the same point, how can diluting your blood enable you to retain the performance enhancing qualities you have gained from taking EPO? Diluted doped blood would have the same oxygen carrying capacity per ml as normal blood would it not?
I am no expert in the medical field so perhaps you can explain.