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Don't forget that it took 1-2 years for the blood passport to get effective. The steroid passport was introduced at the beginning of this year, we may see the first results now.

The question is not whether physiological tests can tell if someone is or is not using drugs, the question is, knowing that someone used drugs (a fact), what are the implications on the physiological tests. That's the other way around. Something that Coyle (and you apparently) refuse to...

I gave you references of T that improve mitochondrial function. Please read them.

Not the data themselves (although doubts exist...) but their interpretation. The double negation used in the conclusion is just a bad litotes to protect his a.s.s. Why not just say "It is likely that the improved gross mechanical efficiency and reduced body weight displayed in the subject of the...

No foolishness at all for someone who doped with testosterone. T administration is known to improve MCT1 and MCT4 in skeletal muscles.

Indeed different things but T improves all of them when combined with proper training. Yes, in a nonexercising population. I repeat that training+T is the key. Kudos to Michele for having been the first to understand this relation.

as far as I know, when Ciba developed Dianabol in the 1950's

Falsely claiming??? Testosterone administration improves mitochondrial function, VO2max, mechanical efficiency or economy or what you would like to call it...

Actually the effects of testosterone on muscle metabolism and mitochondrial function were already known at the end of the 1960's (see eg Gillespie & Eggerton 1970). The recent work by Bhasin just elucidates the process.

Clinicians are not sport physiologists and do not measure "efficiency", just "performance" or "strength". The important point is that testosterone administration is known to improve mitochondrial function.

See eg studies by Bhasin et al on the effects of testosterone on muscle metabolism. Training+testosterone is the key ingredient.

Most probably no effect on mechanical efficiency, or only indirectly at best. However testosterone administration, or still better testosterone + growth hormone, does strongly affect mechanical efficiency. And has long term effects.

in 2012, Vino at the Olympics. I wonder how many blood bags he stored from Jan to Jul to reach that level. Unreal.

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- Good Evening Lance. * Good Evening Oprah. - I will go straight to the point: did you ever dope in your entire career? * Yes, I did. The first time in the 1990's. Before my cancer. There is a high chance that my cancer was caused by my doping. - Do you mean that doping substances...