Peptides for doping control

Are peptides detected for doping control? This is of interest to many bodybuilders who are just beginning their acquaintance with sports pharmacology. Let's try to understand this issue and dot all i's.

Doping control, used in bodybuilding - this is a special test that allows you to identify in the body athlete substances that cause an anabolic effect, that is, stimulating the growth of muscle mass and increase in strength. Since 1993, the list of banned substances includes:

steroids,

Peptide hormones,

Substances with antiestrogenic action;

Beta-2 antagonists;

Diuretics;

Narcotic drugs;

Stimulants;

Masking drugs.

As far as synthetic peptide bioregulators are concerned, they are not included in this list and are not detected when testing for the detection of the fact of doping. Peptide preparations, in comparison with synthetic growth hormone and anabolic steroids, have practically no side effects, do not cause the phenomenon of "pullback", are legal and easily accessible. Determine the peptides for doping control is almost impossible, because they have a very fast half-life.

As for their ability to stimulate the secretion of endogenous hormones, it is also very difficult to prove this, since the level of these biologically active compounds depends not only on circadian rhythms, but also on many other factors. Finally, peptides obtained by genetic engineering are absolutely identical in their amino acid sequence and physicochemical properties to natural bioregulators. Therefore, it is not possible to find out the origin of an individual protein molecule after injection.