Sport Integrity Blog

Blood is the vital fluid delivering essential substances like oxygen and nutrients to our body’s cells. Made up of plasma, red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets, it’s constantly circulating through our body as the moving force we need in order to exist. Blood testing is also a vital part of the anti-doping repertoire.

As of June 17, the Sport Integrity Australia Learning Management System will be co-branded with Play by the Rules.

RAD-140, also known as Testolone or Radarine, is a Selective Androgen Receptor Modulator (SARM) that is gaining notoriety.

Clinical trials on the Selective Androgen Receptor Modulator (SARM) Andarine (S4) have been discontinued and it is not approved for human use.

Potential doping products often become available to athletes via internet sites with little evidence available as to their action within humans.

Blocked nose? Feeling lousy? Thinking of taking a cold and flu tablet? Be careful.

There appears to be an increasing number of athletes linked to the use of the Selective Androgen Receptor Modulator (SARM) Ligandrol (LGD-4033).

GW1516, also known as GW501516, Cardarine and Endurobol, was originally developed in the 1990s as a treatment for diabetes, obesity and cardiovascular disease. It was discontinued in 2007 after it was linked to the rapid development of cancer during trials on mice.

Steroids can have a serious impact on a man’s ability to have a family, according to Dr Susan White, the Chair of the Australian Sports Drug Medical Advisory Committee (ASDMAC).