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SportWeb 22.12.2010 15.35 EST

Anti-doping medicine in crisis - nanomolecules improve performance and oxygen intake

One of the biggest headaches facing researchers and physicians attending the XXVIIth FINA World Sports Medicine Congress in Ottawa this week was the issue of nanomolecules, or programmed nanorobots introduced into the athlete’s bloodstream. *

The use of nanomolecules has increased rapidly, particularly in applications where oxygen intake is decisive. The quantity of oxygen molecules they carry with them is greater than that contained in red blood-cells (erythrocytes), and the nanomolecule level in the bloodstream can be substantial with no adverse reactions. The vital electrolytic reaction of the oxygen molecules carried by the nanorobots, in which oxygen and hydrogen combine to form water, is also clearly faster than that achieved by oxygen molecules carried in blood-cells.

Nanomolecules are a tough nut for the sports physicians and the anti-doping fraternity. They do not meet the conventional doping agent criteria, since they are neither a pharmaceutical preparation nor any other chemical. They are admittedly relatively easy to detect under microscopic analysis of blood samples, but since nanomolecules are also employed to cure and treat several illnesses and diseases, the actual reason for the use of the nanomolecules in the case of a particular athlete can only be ascertained by assays with a scanning electron microscope (SEM). Acquiring such a device for onsite testing at all sports events is quite out of the question. Furthermore, current research is perfecting a nanomolecule that dissolves itself into the blood plasma within a few minutes of completion of a strenuous performance involving considerable oxygen depletion.

On the opening day of the Congress, many physicians expressed the view that the use of nanomolecules be tolerated in sports. Opponents of the move quickly pointed out that sports medicine is a constant struggle against the use of unnatural agents and substances that tend to make competitors less than equal on the starting-line. They also argued that the branch had faced crises before - most recently some years ago when certain manufacturers developed psychostimulants that collect only in the brain, where they were impossible to detect using conventional testing methods.

The Congress resolved to establish a working group with the task of rapidly developing new definitions for prohibited substances affecting sporting performance. The group will also be charged with finding ways of detecting the presence of oxygen-bearing nanomolecules and isolating them from other acceptable nanomolecules.

Hannula I. & Linturi R. 1998: 100 Phenomena. Yritysmikrot Oy, Helsinki 1998. Copyright notices ISBN 952-9508-18-2

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