Ergogenic aid
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Ergogenic aids are any external influences that enhance athletic performance or facilitate physical exercise. These include certain performance-enhancing drugs, mechanical aids, physiological aids, nutritional aids (sports supplements), and psychological aids.[1][2]
Examples
Some branched-chain amino acids are considered ergogenic aids.[3]
Concerns
Because of the highly advantageous way performance-enhancing drugs work on the systems of its users, emphasis on privacy and stealth in implementation has been the order of the day among those who provide the raw ingredients, manufacture the drugs, distribute them, prescribe them and monitor their effects. Furthermore, it is not known how long they can continue to help performance and not hinder quality of life. Evidence of this appeared most prominently in the general American public during the discovery of and fallout over doping in sports.[4]
See also
References
External links
- Mitchell Report – regarding Major League Baseball.
- Risks to health – from Mayo Clinic.
- National Institute on Drug Abuse: "NIDA for Teens: Anabolic Steroids".
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