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)
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