Hey it's better than doping: Cathy Freeman Spent $200 a Week on Vitamins

whats this.

another stefan celba?

No, it is his brother that had all the experiments done on him. Note the limited intellect.

Hey reader, maybe you should do some more reading. EPO use can kill you.

Wrong there, it most certainly can. EPO makes your blood thicker (more red blood cells) and it can get thick enough, especially on a hot day when you are dehydrated, to kill you. Your heart will simply overwork itself pumping this thick blood through your vessels. How can you say ephedra can kill you but EPO can't?

Alan

As a hard core runner and physician, I find it amazing that stores like GNC have duped the world into thinking all those supplements amount to a hill of beans. Oral epo - give me a break. And yes the real stuff can kill you. All you need is a multivitamin and possibly some iron supplements if that. Junk like endurox is crap. There is no substitute for hard training much as people would like to just take some wonder-vitamin to be great.

Endurox and the like are nothing more than multi-vitamins with an added "herb" that supposedly does this and that but there is no concrete evidence to support the claims. All one needs is a multi-vitamin/mineral. Case Closed.

Alan

epo in controlled use is not going to kill a person, dont make som myth up that ahtletes are risking there lives using epo. they have doctors giving it to them, they know how much and when to take. sure they can abuse it and push themselves to the limit of blood thickness but i heard that mostly is happening in cycling, but if watched and controlled it is NOT going to kill a person. its medical drug with medical uses, i dont think anemic people have to worry when on it as much as a person turning there blood into soup being stupid, and its really supid people who get caught anyways. supplement epo, yes, taking certain vitamins and minerals do raise hemocrit and crat levels. wont taking iron help your blood, think about it theres a lot of stuff to help and hinder a person.

go drink your alcohol in your beer and tell me how its not bad when alcohol lowers max heart rate output. like i said there are many other things to hurt a person than epo. poeple do stupider things to win than pop a million vitamins.

"EPO use can kill you"

so can cigs and alcohol, its in all in how much u take. epo used in a smart way is not going to kill people. u take steriods long enough ur going to cancer hell. u drink long enough your an alcoholic loner lying int he street, u smoke long enough u cant breath but through the hole in ur neck. u do epo long enough your resting heart rate is low and ur a healthy mother f*cker still. its not going to lead to a death if used with doctor supervision.

like i was reporting , a blood test showed the difference and i wasnt even training as much. ive had blood tests through my life every 4 months and taking what i read about to increase and help the blood did in fact rasie the blood. scientific studies were done and i jsut repeated what was done and already had been repeated. read some and stoop preaching your fundamental ideas about the world when you view it with a brainwashed high moral plaint hat you people on letsrun.com think you all have. your all a bunch of daily joggers and racers who never tried for an olympic medal or greatness. the difference between me and you is that i have the persistance to train hard and race hard and the motivation inside to be great. you daily joggers, you fifth place cross country dualers in high school, you last place college running. the kind of mentally that the website publisher has about dopers is stupid, what a whiner, who ever is faster he thinks is doping and all he does is jerk off to his coach and his greatness. he's going to be a nobody, why? he's fundamentalist party of people like you bunch of guys who dope up on runnering magazines and think your daily 7miler ought to earn you a place in history. the letsrun.com is going no where but downhill, im sorry but i see this guy running the website for 2-3more years and stop running because of injuries related to his mileage. look its not all about putting 120-150 a week, try some higher intensity...

whatever, you guys think dismissing an article by saying i sounds like someone else is retarded elementary behavior. embrace the future even if u cant accept it. the drugs in the sport were here, are here and are going to be here. its just a matter of time before the stuff becomes "more" legal than it already is. asthmetics, whatever, were going superhuman and you guys wish you could of done it first.

i hope we never have to say, "told you so," to this guy.

epo can kill you, and it has killed athletes already. i haven't the time or energy to look them up, but i know it has.

be careful.

and, by the way, even if it 'should be legal', it's not. so get off the shit because it's not legal in our sport.