I came into some surprising information recently about microdosing, which really makes me question how people are being drug tested.
According to this guy who has a channel dedicated exclusively to anti-doping(and i had heard about this before as well), the testing begins by analysing your T/E ratio. If it breaks the 4/1 threshold, your sample gets sent to further analysis.
Then the guy goes on to say that “350 mg/week is really not that much for a 100kg guy, and that is why we can regard this as microdosing” (13:06 on the video)
Wait…. excuse me…. WHAT????
This isnt micro at all! WTF!
Not from the video, but you can look it up:
“A normal young man will produce a total of about 6 milligrams (mg), or 6 hundredths of a gram, per day.”
Therefore, 6x7 will amount to 42mg/week. Which is 8.3 times less than the 350mg a “dirty” athlete would have in their system… EIGHT TIMES!
Accoding to the study he analyses on the video, which administered 350mg/week of testosterone, you can beat the testing.
This 350mg/week dose might not trigger the 4/1 ratio threshold. And the samples arent even being sent to the secondary, more comprehensive stage. (confirmed on the video at 31:40). Out of the 9 people receiving the same amount of testosterone(350 mg/week), only 5 tested positive.
This is because there is extreme variation on how a persons T/E ratio will react for each individual. However, there is nothing stopping anyone from taking testosterone, paying for a test themselves and figuring out how much they can actually take and still stay within the 4/1 range while simultaneously way above the true natural range.
So pretty much a lot of athletes could be passing the tests using dosages that are damn close to a full blown cycle. There is nothing “micro” about it.
A beginners cycle is usually something around 500mg/week of testosterone, which isnt that far away from 350mg/week. Specially when you consider how much you produce a week naturally. The 350mg is a lot closer to 500 than 42.
I was always skeptical about this “microdosing” concept because of how the HPT axis works with its negative feedback loop. But now it all makes sense, the doses that are considered micro arent micro at all. (if you are not aware of what the HPT axis is you can look it up easily, however it would be too much for me to go into right now, but basically is how your body controls how much testosterone it should produce endogenously)
After learning all that, it seems to me that the reality is that the microdosing concept is complete and utter bullshit.
A snakeoil salesman pitch to confuse the layman.
Athletes are pretty much being “allowed” to go on mild cycles and still pass the test.
LOL at fullofshitzkys “the testing has gotten too good”.
Also, the tainted supplement excuse seems really fickle for cases that involve drugs that have an effect on T/E. As I have a really hard time believing something “tainted with miniscule amounts by contamination” would be triggering the 4/1 ratio after learning how high the threshold for it can be.
Drug testing is a facade.
On top of that, the existence of “masking agents” could potentially be making the situation a lot worse and werent even considered in the study that the guy covered in the video.
Ive been saying this all along guys. Your favorite fighters are very likely on some shit.
