Ergogenic Aids Flashcards
What does ergogenic aids refer to?
- Application of nutritional, physical, mechanical, psychologic, or pharmacologic procedures or aids to improve physical work capacity or athletic performance.
What are the six mechanisms for how ergogenic aids might work?
- Act as central/peripheral nervous system stimulant
- Increase storage and/or availability of limiting substrate
- Act as a supplemental fuel source
- Reduce or neutralize performance-inhibiting metabolic by-products
- Facilitate recovery
- Enhance resistance training responsiveness
In competitive sports, what is considered doping?
- Use of banned athletic performance-enhancing drugs
What are the 3 criteria that can land a substance on WADA’s prohibited list?
- potential to enhance sports performance
- Represents actual or potential risk to athletes
- Violates the spirit of sport
If a substance satisfies two of the three WADA criteria for substances what happens?
- On the prohibited list
What are some pharmacologic agents for ergogenic effects?
- Anabolic androgenic steroids
- Hormone and related substances
- Beta 2 Agonists
- Hormone Antagonists and Modulators
- Diuretics and other masking agents
- Stimulants
- Narcotics
- Cannabinoids
- Glucocorticosteroids
- Alcohol (in some sports)
- Beta-blockers (in some sports)
What are some nonpharmacologic approaches for ergogenic effects?
- Red blood cell reinfusion-blood doping
- Oxygen inhalation (hyperoxia)
- Modification of carbohydrate intake
- Chromium
- Creatine
- Lipid supplementation with medium-chain triacylglycerol
- Pyruvate
What banned substances were used by Lance Armstrong?
- Blood transfusions
- EPO
- Testosterone
- Cortisone
What is red blood cel reinfusion also called?
- Blood doping
Why did blood cell reinfusion become popularized as an ergogenic technique?
- Relatively unknown Finnish runner won multiple golds at the Olympics
What does Red Blood cell reinfusion involve?
- Withdrawal of 1-4 units of blood
- Immediate reinfusing of plasma
- Place Blood Cell in storage for later
What is homologous transfusion?
- Infuses a type-matched donor’s blood
What must happen to prevent dramatic reductions in blood cell concentration? Why?
- withdrawal of 1 unit blood in 3-8week intervals
- Takes time to re-establish normal red blood cell levels.
When would stored blood cells be reinfused for an endurance event?
- 1-7 days before
What does the reinfusion of red blood cells do?
- Increase red blood cell count
- Increase hemoglobin levels from 8-20%
Does how the blood is stored for blood doping matter?
YES
- Freezing permits storage for more than 6 weeks with limited blood cell loss
- Storage at 4C in refrigerator causes substantial hemolysis (after only 3 weeks)
Why is storage important for blood doping results?
- Takes 5-6 weeks to re-establish blood cell loss after withdrawal of 2 units of blood.
Draw the graph of blood doping and blood cell changes after withdrawal.
- Check Notes
What does added blood volume contribute to?
- Larger maximal cardiac output
- Increased oxygen-carrying capacity
What were- the methods of the study on blood doping?
- 800ml blood loss
- Reinfusion of red blood cells 4 weeks later
- Test before and after both conditions
- VO2max/performance capacity measured
What were the test results after blood loss in the study on blood doping?
- Decrease Hb concentration (13%)
- Physical performance decrease (30%)
- VO2max decrease (13%)
What were the test results after reinfusion of blood cells in the study on blood doping?
- Hb concentration increase 133% (compared to day before reinfusion
- Increase in physical performance capacity (23%)
- Increase in VO2max (9%)
What improvements can be seen with appropriate blood storage methods for blood doping?
- 5-13% increase aerobic capacity
- decrease HR
- decrease blood lactate submax
- Augmented endurance different altitudes
- better thermoregulation in heat
Why is there better thermoregulation in heat from blood doping?
- Increase O2 content in arterial blood
- Blood freed for delivery to skin
What is Epoetin?
- A synthetic form of the naturally produced hormone erythropoietin
Why would endurance athletes use Hormonal Blood Doping-Epoetin?
- Eliminate cumbersome and lengthy blood doping process
What is Erythropoietin?
- hormone
What stimulates the production of erythropoietin in normal bodily processes?
- Reduced oxygen pressure in arterial plasma
What does Erythropoietin do?
- Regulates red blood cell production within marrow of long bones.
- synthesis/proper function of erythrocyte membrane proteins
What do the erythrocyte membrane proteins that erythropoietin help synthesize do?
- Facilitate lactate exchange
What does more red blood cells in circulation due to erythropoietin lead to?
- increased oxygenation
- lower levels of hypoxia-inducible factor
- Suppressed EPO production
What is promoted by the hypoxia-inducible factor?
- EPO production
- Iron Absorption/Transport
When is the hypoxia-inducible factor degraded?
- conditions of normal oxygen tension
What happens in anemia or hypoxia regarding hypoxia-inducible factor?
HIF promotes:
- Gene transcription of erythropoietin