{"id":1851,"date":"2016-04-08T16:05:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T16:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.grindeks.eu\/?p=1851"},"modified":"2022-06-30T16:06:37","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T16:06:37","slug":"experts-theres-no-evidence-that-meldonium-enhances-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grindeks.com\/en\/experts-theres-no-evidence-that-meldonium-enhances-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Experts: There\u2019s no evidence that meldonium enhances performance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There\u2019s really no evidence that there\u2019s any performance enhancement from meldonium, said Don Catlin, a long-time anti-doping expert and the scientific director of the Banned Substances Control Group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those questions highlight a difficult position for WADA, With scant existing research, how does it know meldonium enhances performance? Does it need to ban a drug like meldonium before it understands its benefits and potential harms because it sees athletes using the drug? And if it\u2019s not enhancing performance, why are a large number of seemingly healthy athletes taking a drug used to treat patients with heart problems?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Full text is available at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/olympics\/2016\/04\/05\/meldonium-experts-wada-performance-enhancing-drug\/82663156\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">USA Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s really no evidence that there\u2019s any performance enhancement from meldonium, said Don Catlin, a long-time anti-doping expert and the scientific director of the Banned&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grindeks.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grindeks.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grindeks.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grindeks.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grindeks.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grindeks.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grindeks.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grindeks.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grindeks.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grindeks.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}