Meldonium Usage. Why meldonium drew attention Anti-Doping Agency?

Meldonium - metabolic means, normalizing the energy metabolism of cells exposed to hypoxia or ischemia. It supports energy metabolism of the heart and other organs.

This definition meldonium citing Wikipedia leads platform for social journalism.

Since 2012, the Russian Federation meldonium included in the list of vital and essential medicines. Not approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use in the US. On January 1, 2016 it is in the current list of banned in the sport WADA substances.

Further, meldonium produces under the brand name "Mildronat" Latvian company "Grindeks". According to information on the company's website, the drug is registered or recorded in almost all former Soviet republics except Estonia and Turkmenistan, as well as in Bulgaria, Turkey, China and Vietnam. In Western countries, it is not licensed.

According to the manufacturer's promotional materials, "usually elevated body burden of lead to rapid loss of strength in the case of the use of body mildronata trained to withstand the load, use oxygen efficiently and quickly restore energy reserves to prepare for new stress."

This, obviously, and attracted the attention of WADA. All 2015 meldonium officially been under surveillance. This meant that detected in doping tests of athletes traces of the drug were not considered anti-doping rule violation, but the agency is systematically monitored the statistical regularities of its use. Those. WADA has full information about who and where he took meldonium. Who owns the information, owns the world!

The monitoring meldonium banned from January 1, 2016. According to the WADA Code to ban the drug or method it must meet any two of the three criteria: scientific evidence of actual or potential enhance sport performance, the actual or potential threat to athlete health and / or the "definition of WADA that the substance or method harms the spirit of sport."

So what criteria WADA meldonium become fit?

As reported, citing USA Today March 10, a source familiar with the situation, the reason for the ban was meldonium study, which funded the Partnership for Clean Competition - US Anti-Doping profit organization established National Anti-Doping Agency (USADA). According to the source, in March 2014 USADA received confidential information that athletes from Eastern Europe meldonium use to improve their results.

As you know, any research needed money. Typically, grants are distributed to these works - 80-100 thousand dollars. And here (attention!) Efforts combined ... US Anti-Doping Agency (the USADA), United States Olympic Committee, MLB baseball and American Football League NFL. A strange mix. The last two of these are generally outside of the Olympic sports. Moreover, they are generally outside the Code World Anti Doping Agency (WADA): Commercial League once identified, they have "all his" and no subordinate. At WADA has extraterritorial powers, World agency can dictate terms to the sports world. But the big American League, living in the immediate vicinity of the North American headquartered WADA in Montreal - no. And the organization is actually from different planets came together. For what? Learn meldonium!

The results were published in the journal Drug Testing and Analiysis in November 2015. There, in particular, said: "Using mildronate, which may based on the drug substance is confirmed by certain analytical data allowing to assess its prevalence in professional sports." Try to guess what meaning bears the phrase ...

That's what he thinks about the reasons for banning the creator meldonium: "I think that the prohibition meldonium - this lobby carnitine producers. This drug is the most common nutritional supplement used by athletes, bodybuilders. Our group, which at the time was developing meldonium unfortunately ascertained that carnitine - rather offensive tool, which can affect the development of atherosclerosis. " So that manufacturers do not want to lose your business and want your ban affect competitors or those who point to carnitine cons. Like this…

And so, I will summarize: The ban meldonium simply magnificent "doublet" by not amateurs in the sport and financial capital at the same time. After all, it is wonderful, on the one hand to "punish" mainly Russian athletes for alleged "dirty game" and on the other hand to make a "dirty tackle" a developer and manufacturer of effective sports medicine, which is taken in head to aim a blow at this effectively selling drug carnitine.

Best time to come up with such an attack, and it was impossible and "opponent" did not miss his chance, sums up the journalist.