#496 - Alexander Hutchison on IN DEFENSE OF DOPING

Alexander Hutchison, PhD, is an expert on sports performance and author of IN DEFENSE OF DOPING: REASSESSING THE LEVEL PLAYING FIELD. He chats with Trey Elling about the need to rethink certain performance-enhancing drugs in sports, due systems and testing protocols that are both inconsistent and hypocritical. Topics include:

• The book's inspiration (0:00)
• Defining 'doping' (9:43)
• PEDs fall into 1 of 3 categories (12:53)
• WADA's hypocricy (15:14)
• The value of HGH (21:07)

• A PED paradox in sports vs life (27:16)
• The Tour de France & PEDs, a history (33:35)
• MLB's gains & losses with PEDs (39:34)
• "Protecting the children" (41:35)
• Clenbuterol (47:15)
• Potential solutions (50:37)
• Drugs that should remain illegal (53:52)