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Pica can be a compulsive disorder found in lots of animals, such as humans. It can begin accidentally and also be random. There are three behaviors that constitute pica. There are:
1. Repetitive
2. Non-functional
3.
This got me thinking about our small globe of tennis and in all fairness these questions popped up in my mind, what if:
There are a number of causes for pica. If your dog exhibits these behaviors, the first thing you require to do is get them to your veterinarian, so you can remove medial reasons.
- Police raids, like those in cycling in Italy, France, Spain or Belgium, were produced at all major tournaments' Australian Open, Miami Open, Italian Open, Roland Garros, Wimbledon, US Open at the tennis players guest houses and hotels? What would the Police find? Nothing?
- Independent labs examined the blood and urine samples presented by the players rather then labs controlled either by the ATP or ITF? Would the results be different?
Medical
And I decide who gets eaten or not?
Are drugs and doping systems like; Steroids (Anabolic), EPO, HGH (Growth Hormone), cocaine, amphetamines and some other forms of blood doping not useful in tennis? Well, these and lots of far more questions started reeling in my ever curious mind and I decided to investigate a bit and discovered that:
"Blood doping will be the course of action of artificially increasing the quantity of red blood cells inside the body in an try to enhance Athletic performance. In the past this was accomplished by a blood transfusion. The athlete would donate a unit of blood into storage and then three weeks later, right after the body had entirely replaced the blood loss, transfuse the unit back into the body. This enables performance improvements in endurance sports because of the additional oxygen carrying capacity. The practice has been outlawed. Not just due to the fact it seriously is unfair but because of the dangers involved. EPO has put a entire new spin on blood doping. No require for messy transfusions, just shoot up with EPO to increase your circulating erythrocyte mass. Until lately accurate testing has been complicated because the recombinant human EPO produced inside the lab is virtually identical to the naturally occurring form and there are no firmly established usual ranges for EPO in the body. The only previously readily available route to curtail cheating for sports governing bodies was to ban an athlete if the hematocrit (see side bar) level was too high (e.g., above 50%). Thus, over the past 10 15 years some athletes chose to cheat because, as lengthy as they kept their hematocrit levels beneath 50%, there seemed small risk of receiving caught. Several team doctors and personnel from a number of teams had been caught red-handed with thousands of doses of EPO along with other banned substances. Ultimately about 50% of the teams withdrew from the race either for cheating or in protest" Rice Edu - Erythropoietin Feb. 2005 Mark Jenkins Whoa!
"Anabolic steroids are drugs that resemble androgenic hormones (sometimes known as male hormones) for example testosterone.
So I went on with my digging and:
The question might be as simple as anemia from hookworms. If those tests come back indicating no problems, then you must regard the situation to be more psychological.
- Following on comments made by Nicolas Escude former ATP player at the French open 2002. " Have issues changed?
"For six years I was unaware I was being given a type of steroid of the legal sort they utilised to give horses till they made the decision it was too powerful even for horses," McEnroe was quoted as saying in The Daily Telegraph newspaper in Sydney on Monday." CNN - WorldSport - Report: McEnroe admits to steroids - Sunday, January 11, 2004 Posted: 8:52 PM EST (0152 GMT) The Linked Press - Then I read that; "In his book ''You Cannot Be Serious'', McEnroe said he suspected that steroids and amphetamines had created their way into the top levels of the sport inside the 80's. "
- This made me assume about other guys, Vitas Gerulaitis came to thoughts plus the FBI investigation on cocaine: The New York Times, Gerulaitis Trailed, Agent Testifies By UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL Published: August 31, 1982
!...and how many much more were then cheating and are the new top players cheating right now as well?
Items dogs suffering from pica are attracted to include; but aren't restricted to:
· Rocks
· Dirt
· Rubber
· Plastic
· Feces (corpophagia)
· Vomit
· Grass
· Cleaning agents
· Anti-freeze
· Dentures
· Dental retainers
· Wood
· Wool
· String
· Ribbon
· Aluminum foil
Unless induced with illegal means, performance has a pretty very much up and down curve of progress and two players that at the begining of their careers had been close in their matches, the outcomes have a tendency to be close all through life. I'll offer you an example:
- A player has 3/5 win loss against yet another player and plays him on clay exactly where he has always lost and beats the other player in straight sets 6/2 6/3 in a key event.
Other examples of suspicios "progress":
- A player that's way past his prime and whose performance was in decline, all of a sudden comes to a main and wins six 5 setter matches playing like he's possessed by the devil, running like a 20 year old, dropping one set only along the way, with on court temperatures often over 40 degrees Celsius! Spaghetti alone cannot do that, something should be in the water!
- Another tell tale sign is, if a player is too dominant for too long! As we all know there's no quantity of training that will retrograde the natural cycle of regeneration of our cell system, meaning several losses in a year need to be the norm for any player simply because of the natural low red blood cell count resulting in lack of performance, unless foul play is involved; Within a year this natural cycle of renewal repeats itself about 12 occasions in high and low cycles of approximately 21 days each!
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