Drug helps to enhance athletic performance
Adoption of atoxic drugs, and to some extent of doping is not a new concept in the international specturm of athletics but has been present through ages. It should be noted, in all these times, the human body was given the prime importance and any significance of mind was never brought into consideration.
However, on the contrary, a new study report published from Australia, recently, pointed out the emergence of a new concept. According to the experimentation, the mind has a kind of dominance over physique. This can be proved in several ways. For instance, if a placeo is given to any aspiring athlete, he will consider it as a performance-enhancing drug. Again, if the athlete is male, as a result of his conviction will display a great improvement in performance. This indicates that there is a predominance of “mind over matter", or the power of the mind, in any individual and does also play a crucial role in growing the competence of an athlete.
The study was performed under the auspices of Jennifer Hansen, RN, lead author and nurse researcher at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney, Australia who was also present at the recently concluded 90th Annual Meeting of The Endocrine Society in San Francisco. The study received the generous fund of the World Anti-Doping Agency and the Australian Government Anti-Doping Research Program.
To the assesement of Haassan, the effect of "placebo", bent on to describe the way how the power of the mind affects physical performance, is found to be in greater proportion in males than their female counterparts.
While taking to a score of press and media representatives she said, "Athletes are doping with growth hormone to improve sporting performance despite any evidence it actually improves performance."
When she was asked of her main objective by the same representatives she clarified that the real aim of her and her colleauges was to get a line whether the enhanced peformance resulted due to the competence of the drug or the belief of the athelete in the drug’s superior skill.
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