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Re: Diuretic Bumetanide Used by NFL Players to Mask Anabolic Steroid Use?

Ripped Muscles — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 21:59:35 -0000

How can someone be accused of steroid use simply because they used something that may be used to dilute a urine test. All that means is that these individuals may have been hiding steroid use - or they may have been trying to lose weight, control stress, etc. If players are going to have their names implicated for steroid use, there needs to be substantial evidence, not subjective conjecture!

Re: Diuretic Bumetanide Used by NFL Players to Mask Anabolic Steroid Use?

Carlos Arruyo — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:54:02 -0000

yeah its true girls use hormone pills to cover up use of PED'S and guys use Viagra to cover up the fact that their privates are getting smaller.

Re: Diuretic Bumetanide Used by NFL Players to Mask Anabolic Steroid Use?

James K — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:46:58 -0000

things like hormone pills and aderall and riddalin are used to mask attitude problems, and viagra

Re: Diuretic Bumetanide Used by NFL Players to Mask Anabolic Steroid Use?

Balan K — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:48:24 -0000

Ignorance is the main defence for most of the players accused of using steriods. If the stuff is taken in consultation with the coach and team doctor they are to be addressed.

Re: Diuretic Bumetanide Used by NFL Players to Mask Anabolic Steroid Use?

Stephen Aguayo — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 04:08:22 -0000

My apologies for the errors.

i was typing sort of fast. i meant to say on the botom lines that "WHOS IS TO SAY THAT THE NFL PLAYERS WERE TAKING BUMETANIDE INSTEAD OF DIET PILLS"

Re: Diuretic Bumetanide Used by NFL Players to Mask Anabolic Steroid Use?

Stephen Aguayo — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 04:03:19 -0000

To whom it may concern,
I am a college student at Pima Community College in Tuscon, Arizona. I was asked by my writing teacher to take a position on the use of anabolic steroids in sports. I feel that steroids should be allowed but here is why, Steroids dont make you a better athlete it only gives you more of an opportunity to be that better athlete. The drug does not give a player devine powers becasue in reality, it does take some kind of talent to become good at a sport or an individual has to have some sort of athletic ability. These NFL are being wrongfully suspeneded. I do understand that rules are meant to be followed but maybe the drug was to lose some wait. After all, it does draw out and flush away a lot of the body's water. They were wrong for breaking such understandable and respected rules, but the punishment is unfair. Reserve Defense of tackle For the Tennesse Titans, Kevin Vickerson was suspeneded for 4 games with no pay. I feel this punishment does not suit the charge that he was sentenced with. Understand that enhancement is all around us whether it be modern technology right down to surgery. Enhancement is a big part of life. Bumetanide may cover up steroids just like make up may be used for a cover up of acne or simply ones imgination that them as an individual is non attractive. Millard Baker does make a good arguement when he says that the nfl players were caught of guard when the banning of bumetanide was set in stone which resulted in a stream of nfl players testing positive for bumetanide, however bumetanide was not banned from the nfl up until a couple months ago, and had not been used for over twenty years. Why now? is it really that serious? Traces of bumetanide are also found in diet pills, who is too say that the athletes were taking this banned substance instead of bumetanide. The punishment does not suit the charge and this whole issue is just a waist of time. I honestly feel that the system is flawed. As millard Baker states (and i have to agree) lets just see if attorney David Cornwell "can produce samples of dietary supplement responsible for the incriminating bumetanide test result."

Re: Diuretic Bumetanide Used by NFL Players to Mask Anabolic Steroid Use?

jarrid fouth — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 10:55:04 -0000

YAH BUT THEN THE PLAYER ARE NOT WORKING OUT.

Re: Diuretic Bumetanide Used by NFL Players to Mask Anabolic Steroid Use?

jarrid fouth — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 10:53:00 -0000

WHAT DO YOU MEAN!!!!!!!!

Re: Diuretic Bumetanide Used by NFL Players to Mask Anabolic Steroid Use?

jarrid fouth — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 10:51:58 -0000

PLEASE SAY MORE ABOUT STEROID IN FOOTBALL PLAYERS.

Re: Diuretic Bumetanide Used by NFL Players to Mask Anabolic Steroid Use?

Millard Baker — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 23:36:52 -0000

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.

Re: Diuretic Bumetanide Used by NFL Players to Mask Anabolic Steroid Use?

Brian — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 23:19:35 -0000

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.