fred wrote:
Are these athletes being injected with Beta Agonists?
Or just inhaling Salbutamol? Because that won't have an anabolic effect.
http://www.meatscience.org/docs/default-source/publications-resources/rmc/1987/effects-of-beta-adrenergic-agonists-on-cellular-metabolism.pdf?sfvrsn=2
Taking Ventolin (which active substance is Salbutamol) orally has been proven to have an anabolic effect.
http://www.roidsseek.com/weight-loss-389/ventolin-4515.html"Ventolin is a selective beta-adrenergic agonist/antagonist. It is primarily medically prescribed for the treatment of asthma, similar to other beta-adrenergic agonists that are available for the management of airway obstruction. Selective beta-2 agonists such as Ventolin are the preferred method of treating asthma due to their ability to help alleviate breathing problems in users, while minimizing the cardiovascular effects that accompanies the use of the drug.
For strength athletes, bodybuilders and others who are seeking to improve performance or their physical appearance, Ventolin offers numerous benefits. For the most part, it is most often considered a “fat burner†in the bodybuilding community. This is due to the ability of the drug to stimulate fat cells, increase lypolysis, decrease appetite, increase body temperature, as well as increasing basal metabolic rate, among other things. All of these factors, when combined with proper diet and training, would obviously help to increase the rate of fat loss in users. However the use of Ventolin is not limited to simply fat loss. There is evidence that it can help to dramatically improve athletic performance as well as helping to contribute to anabolism.
It has been demonstrated in numerous studies that the use of Ventolin can help to increase muscular strength in users. These are often accompanied by increases in muscle mass.
Specifically, in one such study it was noted that users of Ventolin showed much greater improvements in strength when compared to a control group, after both groups had previously been training for ten weeks with no significant differences in their progress. The group given Ventolin also showed larger increases in lean body mass. The doses for these individuals began at 4 milligrams per day, given orally, and were increased and then maintained at 16 milligrams per day for the duration of the study. Similar findings were made in another study where the subjects only trained their quadriceps muscles. Again, both gains in strength and muscle size were noted in the group that was administered Ventolin during their training."