Yes, i'm not a doctor. That's why I talked to a medical professional today and he laughed when I asked if it was possible it was under 50 ml.
He said to me,. "Do you have any concept of how little 50 ml is?" So I looked it up. It's 1.7 ounces. He's like, "Yep. Of course they had way more than that."
So you think it's possible to take 1/10th of a coke can and raise your Carinitine levels from 50 to 2000?
I don't . Maybe the guy I talked to is wrong but he works in the field and you and I dont and he said it was crazy.
Now you are in total la-la-land. Your first statement may have simply been because you are scientist but the second is foolish. They didn't violate the spirit of the law? They 100% Did.
The anti-doping rules whole spirit is simple. They want competition to be about who is the best naturally. They don't want people taking potentially dangerous things that give them an athletic advantage.
Taking such a huge amount of L-Carnitine in an untested manner in such a short period of time to suddenly take 2-3 minutes off your marathon time is 100% in violation of the spirit of the law as it's both dangerous and designed to give you a huge, unnatural advantage.
From the report. "Potential side effects noted in the product literature for Carnitor® injectable L-carnitine include injection site reactions, adverse gastrointestinal reactions and seizures...Even in 50 mL of infusion solution (which the records provided to USADA by Dr. Brown deny was given), 9.67 grams of L-carnitine would be at the highest concentration level commercially available and far above (about 25 times higher than) the concentration recommended for infusion in humans."
The spirit of the law was broken a long time ago by Salazar - whether it's a doping violation or not. He's doing what every doper does - looking for a chemical way to increase performance regardless of health costs.