Doping is banned for athletes, but why do so many sports still go out of their way to take doping? What kind of effects can doping bring?
Anabolic steroid effects
Anabolic steroids are the most frequently used and widest range of drugs in doping. The drugs have androgenic effects that make athletes physically strong, enhance explosive power, promote recovery from training, and also help increase training intensity. Therefore, this class of stimulants is often used in sprinting, useful, cycling, skiing and other sports.
Psychostimulants
The most commonly used psychostimulants are ephedrine, cocaine, etc. Such drugs can improve the respiratory function of athletes, improve circulation, increase the oxygen supply capacity, make athletes mentally excited and enhance physical strength. In addition, cocaine will also make athletes emotional high, and can endure the quotidian caused by athletics.
Beta-blockers
Such drugs have a sedative effect, after taking can lower blood pressure, slow down the heart rate, reduce myocardial oxygen consumption, improve the body's balance and exercise endurance, but also to eliminate the athletes before the race nervousness, to achieve super performance. Shooting, gymnastics and other sports athletes consume more of these drugs.
Narcotic sedative
Codeine, morphine and its derivatives, as well as similar synthetic preparations are narcotic analgesics. Athletes use them to produce pleasure and exhilaration, accompanied by hallucinations beyond physical ability, helping athletes to endure muscle pain for a long time. Therefore, they are used more often by swimmers and long-distance runners.
Diuretics
Diuretics such as furosemide and spironolactone enable athletes to rapidly reduce their body weight in a short period of time and are often used by athletes in those events that compete by weight class (e.g. judo, wrestling and weightlifting). Diuretics are used by athletes prior to competition for rapid weight loss; they are used during doping control to dilute the urine and mask prohibited substances in the urine.
Peptide hormones
Chorionic gonadotropin can stimulate the formation of testosterone in the testes; adrenocorticotropic hormone can promote the body to produce more cortisol, cortisol and synthetic analogues can reduce the inflammation of tendons and joints, with pain relief and anti-inflammatory effects; human growth hormone can promote muscle growth, often used by weightlifting and track and field athletes; erythropoietin has the function of promoting red blood cell proliferation and maintaining a stable number of red blood cells in the blood It is often used by cyclists, rowers, sprinters and long-distance runners to increase the number of red blood cells in the blood and improve the oxygen-carrying capacity of the blood.
