Insulin

[Altitude]

I asked FL. HE said he did NOT use this. He did say he used clen once.

I read that he tried it once but felt dizzy so never did it again - obviously this could be false but it was quoted.

Here's the piece on Ullrich, again no idea how reliable it is:

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/ullrichs-alleged-doping-plan

 

[Tank Engine]

Insulin was used after strenuous weight training sessions during the off season. Three units of Humalog (fast-acting insulin) were injected immediately after the workout sessions together with a powdered drink that contained 30 grams of dextrose, 30 grams of whey protein isolates and 3 grams of creatine. The purpose was to quickly replenish glycogen, resynthesize ATP and promote protein synthesis and muscle growth. Insulin acts as a "shuttle system" in the transport of glucose and branch chain amino acids. There is no test available for insulin at this time. [\QUOTE]

Fast acting insulin after an evening meal would be by far the most sensible use of insulin. Still pretty dangerous (as evidenced by examples above).

http://www.dopeology.org/products/Insulin/ [\QUOTE]

Hadn't previously picked up on the fact that they'd found insulin in Pantani's room.

 

[L'arriviste]

Fast acting insulin after an evening meal would be by far the most sensible use of insulin. Still pretty dangerous (as evidenced by examples above).

http://www.dopeology.org/products/Insulin/

Hadn't previously picked up on the fact that they'd found insulin in Pantani's room.

They did find it in his room but - IIRC - this was not enough legally to connect the use or supply of the product to Pantani himself, so the Pirate was successful in his appeal to CAS.

 

[joe_papp]

It is of my opinion that Voet stretched the truth in his book and did not really understand in depth much of what he was doing at the time or what he was later writing about.

Well, cortisone and synacthen really were/are massively abused. Daily doses during stage racing, 3-4x/week during hard training, all leads to secondary adrenal suppression and other nastiness.

I think one of the problems with insulin is that it's quite a common drug, almost everybody knows someone in his environment who uses it to threat diabetes. It may therefore seem that it is relatively safe to use. ...

I certainly can't speak for anyone other than those w/ whom I interacted, but I can assure you that we had a healthy fear of insulin and, even if some used it, it was not w/o trepidation and real fear - fear that wasn't there when using EPO, Aranesp, HGH, etc. And yes, it was what I would've used had I decided to do a "VDB" - as in Frank.

 

[pclemo]

Some useful insulin links. Free full text when I checked. Such is the nature of insulin abuse, there's cross-over into other PEDs.

Insulin, growth hormone and sport. [2001]: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11431133

Metabolic effects of the very-low-carbohydrate diets: misunderstood "villains" of human metabolism. [2004]: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18500949

Growth hormone, IGF-I and insulin and their abuse in sport. [2008]: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18376417

 

[Dear Wiggo]

Re:

Some useful insulin links. Free full text when I checked. Such is the nature of insulin abuse, there's cross-over into other PEDs.

Insulin, growth hormone and sport. [2001]: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11431133

Metabolic effects of the very-low-carbohydrate diets: misunderstood "villains" of human metabolism. [2004]: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18500949

Growth hormone, IGF-I and insulin and their abuse in sport. [2008]: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18376417

Thank you for the links. Full text is great.