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8 months ago

in Diuretic Bumetanide Used by NFL Players to Mask Anabolic Steroid Use? on Steroid Report
I wouldn't be surprised if the players were on steroids and using the bumetanide to try and mask it. When there's millions of dollars on the line you try and get every edge you can. Strength and power is even more important in football than baseball and steroids were pretty rampant there.
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Millard Baker If football players were indeed trying to mask anabolic steroid use with bumetanide, then the fact that players from at least three different organizations knew they could successfully use bumetanide to hide their steroid use points to some kind of organized doping effort.

The players all would have had to know that the NFL was not testing for bumetanide (at least not up until a few weeks ago) as well as how to use bumetanide to mask their steroid use. It sounds like bumetanide was rarely used as a masking agent anymore, so perhaps the NFL had not tested for it for several years. Once they started testing for it, it could have caught players off-guard leading to a string of positive bumetanide test.

This could potentially be the football equivalent to the surprise CERA testing at the 2008 Tour de France.

But I still think there is a potential for a contaminated supplement linking the athletes. At least one dietary supplement (StarCaps) was reported to be contaminated with near-therapeutic levels of bumetanide.

Let's just see if attorney David Cornwell can produce samples of the dietary supplement responsible for the incriminating bumetanide test results.
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