World Anti-Doping Agency issues rare health warning!

" The World Anti Doping Agency has issued a rare warning to all athletes not to use the substance GW501516, which it states is being sold on the black market and used by some athletes."

I check the status of this product at the GlaxoSmithKline website; (the inventors of the drug), and Glaxo indeed terminated this drug during its phase-one clinical trial in 2009. Turns out it is toxic to your muscles, pokes holes in them, and causes tumors especially in female rats:

[Link] - See number Summation numbers 895, 896, 1609

To get a drug approved by the FDA it has to undergo a series of clinical trials; (five total.) The purpose of theses trials is to ensure a product is safe enough to be administered to the public. This drug showed no promise whatsoever yet when you go to Wikipedia not one mention was made that this drug is dangerous till today.

BTW, this S*** is for sale on eBay too. What a world we live in!

From VeloNation: 

The World Anti Doping Agency has issued a rare warning to all athletes not to use the substance GW501516, which it states is being sold on the black market and used by some athletes. The agency has expressed strong words of caution about the substance, which was added to the banned list three years ago.

“The side effect of this chemical compound is so serious that WADA is taking the rare step of warning “cheats” to ensure that there is complete awareness of the possible health risks to athletes who succumb to the temptation of using GW501516 for performance enhancement,” it stated in a communication.

“GW501516 was a developmental drug that was withdrawn from research by the pharmaceutical company and terminated when serious toxicities were discovered in pre-clinical studies. Clinical approval has not, and will not be given for this substance.”

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My hope is that other bloggers more qualified than myself step up and outline how poisonous the S*** is.