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Noel King

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Today, Explained
The steroid olympics

baseline categories.

Today, Explained
The steroid olympics

The big one was anabolic steroids, which is kind of the big bread and butter and the one that you've probably heard of before.

Today, Explained
The steroid olympics

Stimulants like Adderall, basically day of to help you perform and focus.

Today, Explained
The steroid olympics

Human growth hormone was another big one.

Today, Explained
The steroid olympics

Metabolic modulators, which sort of help with energy and recovery.

Today, Explained
The steroid olympics

And the women were able to take some jugs that helped with hormone therapy.

Today, Explained
The steroid olympics

So I thought that was really interesting.

Today, Explained
The steroid olympics

Yeah.

Today, Explained
The steroid olympics

So this guy named Guido Pieles, he's a cardiologist and a professor at the University College London.

Today, Explained
The steroid olympics

He was the one who heads up the sort of, I'm using air quotes here, independent medical commission, figuring out what the athletes are going to be offered.

Today, Explained
The steroid olympics

And what I found fascinating, what he said, peptides, which are sort of everywhere right now, were off the table.

Today, Explained
The steroid olympics

We will not use them because not enough data has been put out there to say that they're really safe.

Today, Explained
The steroid olympics

And so I thought it was interesting that that's where they decided to draw the line because to my mind, peptides are the thing that everyone wants to buy right now and that they weren't capitalizing on that was really interesting to me.

Today, Explained
The steroid olympics

Yeah, there were all sorts of personal reasons, but the big one was that Enhanced treats this sort of like a normal job for them.

Today, Explained
The steroid olympics

They receive a monthly paycheck.

Today, Explained
The steroid olympics

I was able to fly out to Abu Dhabi and stay at the luxury hotel where a bunch of them were training.

Today, Explained
The steroid olympics

And they basically were able to

Today, Explained
The steroid olympics

wake up, train hard, eat amazing healthy gourmet food, have all the recovery treatments that they wanted, and basically not worry about anything else in life.

Today, Explained
The steroid olympics

They're, I'm just going to say it, they're paying me a lot of money.

Today, Explained
The steroid olympics

I have no shame in saying that.