Palhares Fails PED Testing

[Uchi Mata]

Wonder if ADCC will allow him to fight

Not sure if serious...

If ADCC drug tested, Marcelo Garcia would win all the divisions by default.

Edit: Marcelo and Kron

 

[DanOfEarth]

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[Charlitos1988]

This does it. First Overeem, now Palhares. Is there ANYONE in this sport who isn't a PED user?! :wink:

Jose Aldo

 

[BJJ_Rage]

They use it as an indication of possible doping because when you use plant testosterone (TRT) or anabolic steroids, it causes your testosterone levels to go up without raising your epitestosterone.
Everybody thinks that normal people have a 1:1 ratio but that isn't true either. 1:1 ratio is just an average for a normal male, but that mean there are people with a natural ratio higher and lower. 95% of men have a 4:1 ratio or less and 99% have a ratio of 6:1 or less, which is where the 4:1 and 6:1 ratio limits actually come from. They really don't know exactly what makes certain men have higher or lower levels of epitestosterone and ratios, although they see trends within different races, such as asian men have a much lower average ratio than most other races (most of the other races are fairly close).

WADA, who does the olympics, actually uses a 4:1 with a variation check. If you have a higher ratio than 4:1, they do a 4 test variation and as long as the variation is less than 30% you are considered clean.

Now with Palhares having had a history of testing, and as far as we can tell he doesn't have any issue with naturally testing above the 6:1 or 4:1 threshold (different states use different ratios and I assume the UFC uses the NSAC 6:1 but I'm not certain on that), so it's a pretty good guess that he was using something that caused his ratio to go out. Since he isn't appealing it, he most likely used something that he shouldn't have, but we don't know what that is. It could have been illegal anabolic steroids, plant testosterone, or even legal supplements that are banned for athletes.
It is pretty safe to assume that he did something he wasn't supposed to, but it really isn't fair to say he was doing roids or make any accusations as to what he did without more information.

plant testosterone (who knows what that is, but im guessing is just testosterone) is as much anabolic steroid as any other "roid" in the market, and TRT is not an anabolic steroid of any kind, its a regimen, simply means you are taking testosterone in therapeutic dosis, plain and simple...

and they do test testosterone levels, they test the ratio T/E, what they dont test is the ammount of test in the blood.

 

[100%Jiu-Jitsu]

Not sure if serious...

If ADCC drug tested, Marcelo Garcia would win all the divisions by default.

Edit: Marcelo and Kron

No edit required. "Marcelo and Kron" = Marcelo, after beating Kron in the finals. So... Marcelo.

 

[Jagcorps_esq]

Not as good as the original, sorry.