Well, I don’t know the answer to that, but I can tell you there has been research, for example, with testosterone and I believe that testosterone and similar entities are still the most prevalent in use for doping. There was a study that looked at the time span of when stopping something like testosterone had benefits and it actually had benefits months after. So, someone that maybe was misusing or let’s say had gone to an anti-aging clinic or had been just obtaining it through their doctor, saying they needed testosterone for a number of reasons, and women use testosterone quite readily as well, but irrespective of that, they may say they had to stop it. Let’s say they were on it and the commission says, ‘Oh no, we’re not going to permit usage of testosterone replacement therapy, no matter what your doctor said’ and, VADA and WADA, and other entities, USADA, all have experts that review that, but irrespective of that, the benefits of it can be months after stopping. So that bothers me a little bit if a commission says, ‘Okay, you just can’t be on it now, you’ve got a fight coming up in a few months. You have to stop that now.’ And the athlete stops it and it’s no longer detectable as an adverse result in their anti-doping tests, but did it have an effect and did it have still an effect that lasted months, months even after their event? And I think the answer to that is yes. It may be dependent upon how long they were on it before, but yeah, it can still have an effect as far as performance enhancement.
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