The FDA (who may be sharing the same bed with WADA), is at it again so it seems, how pathetic! I feel that this is nothing more than pharmaceutical companies' cold-war equivalent of the US Soviet-Union cold war of old/and new as we're witnessing in Syria.
So what we have here is a drug (?) that is supposed to look after your heart. Mmm, reminds me of Co Q10 (which I take), except the latter is not made by some Eastern European country such as Latvia.
I remember when back in the 70s and 80s the herb milk thistle was very popular with the Soviet Union/Bulgarian/Eastern European countries' weightlifters..., to counteract the ill effect or stress placed on the liver by such orals that have gone through the process of C17-Alpha Alkylation. I'm thinking Dianabol here of course. Thank God milk thistle is not banned. What's next?
Politics is revolting I find, but sports' politics is utterly sickening.
A December 2015 study in the journal
Drug Testing and Analysis argued that meldonium "demonstrates an increase in endurance performance of athletes, improved rehabilitation after exercise, protection against stress, and enhanced activations of central nervous system (CNS) functions.
You've got to be joking right?! The same people who have banned this so called drug Meldonium, have allowed something that also stimulates the CNS to its core. What is that substance? Caffeine! Just in case Ausbb was not aware, caffeine was banned for 20 whole years (and you could have been thrown out of the Olympics) between the years of 1984 and 2004. The ban has been lifted. Why? Not because caffeine has suddenly lost its ergogenic effect, but because the testing of it is not (has never been) precise—the amount of caffeine you consume that passes into your urine varies between individuals.
I've only touched on caffeine and its well known effect on our CNS. There are still the increase in endurance performance of athletes, improved rehabilitation (that's recovery for you) after exercise claimed for Meldonium. I can think of more than few natural substances that can deliver such effects, and I did mention just one of them, namely Co Q10. I'll leave it here for now.