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Athletes performance viagra. T of medicinal aid. Green says the No. 1 reason athletes who take anabolic steroids seek a Viagra prescription is for impotence associated with the steroid use. With or without steroid use, taking Viagra to treat erectile dysfunction is not something every athlete wants to openly acknowledge. Adds Green, "Athletes could be saying they take Viagra for one reason to cover up the real reason." As will no doubt forever be the case in sports, some athletes will try to gain an unconventional competitive edge, be it through drugs or other means. Viagra is not currently listed as a banned drug in sports, although eventually that may change. The World Anti-Doping Agency is concerned enough about the potential abuse of Viagra in cycling that it is funding a study, currently under way at the University of Miami, examining whether the drug can improve the performance of cyclists who are riding at altitude. Given that cyclingnews.com reported last month that Italian cyclist Andrea Moletta was suspended after a police search of his father's car at the Giro d'Italia turned up 82 Viagra pills and a syringe hidden in a tube of toothpaste, the Agency may be on to something. Even then, think of the challenges that could arise with testing. According to Green, all sports agencies have some measure of "therapeutic use exemption," whereby an athlete can use an otherwise-banned substance if it meets that agency's criteria for therapeutic use. Such criteria typically include the presence of a "significant health effect if the substance is not used" and the lack of any safe alternative. Insulin (us
Viagra improves high altitude exercise performance up to 45% for some
Sts find that Viagra increases speed in mountainsBYLINE: By Miriah Meyer, Tribune staff reporter.BODY: Researchers reported Thursday that cyclists may be able to increase theirperformance by taking Viagra--their athletic performance, that is. Some cyclists have more trouble than others in sustaining high levels ofexertion at mountainous elevations. The new study found that Viagra, a drug mostcommonly used to treat male impotence, helped overcome that problem. For these cyclists, taking Viagra improved their performance up to 45percent, which would allow a cyclist racing in the high Rocky Mountains to covera stretch of road in 39 minutes that would otherwise take an hour. The findings, published in the Journal of Applied Physiology, come at a timewhen competitive cycling has been struggling to prevent athletes from usingbanned drugs and other methods of bolstering performance. Viagra is notcurrently among the blacklisted drugs. The study's senior researcher, California physiologist Anne Friedlander,emphasized that Viagra did not improve the performance of all cyclists. Ithelped "level the playing field" for those most affected by altitude, she said. Hoping to learn more about why high altitudes affect people differently,Friedlander and other researchers at Stanford University and the Palo AltoHealth Care System studied 10 male competitive cyclists. The cyclists were tested on an exercise bike under normal conditions andwhile breathing air low in oxygen. Some were given sugar pills, and the otherstook Viagra. "The participants told us that while they were riding the bike they 