Five Mexico players test positive

[Twan]

Five Mexico players have tested positive to a banned substance and have been dropped from the squad contesting the Gold Cup squad, the Mexican football federation said Thursday.

Decio De Maria, general secretary of the Mexican federation, said he believed the players tested positive by ingesting contaminated food.

The players named by the Mexican federation are goalkeeper Guillermo Ochoa, defenders Edgar Duenas and Francisco Rodriguez, and midfielders Christian Bermudez and Antonio Naelson.

''What is presumed ... one had to ingest contaminated materials - meat or chicken,'' De Maria said. ''Now comes the tough part, taking the players off the squad and opening an investigation. Meanwhile, it is a disagreeable moment to take this kind of decision, but we have to take responsibility.''

The Mexican federation said the five tested positive in pre-Gold Cup doping tests conducted May 21. Officials said the substance detected was the banned anabolic agent clenbuterol.

''Everything points to it being an accident, very unfortunate,'' De Maria said.

De Maria made reference to Tour de France champion Alberto Contador of Spain, who tested positive last July for clenbuterol and said he consumed the drug in contaminated beef.

Mexico was to face Cuba on Thursday in the Gold Cup, the championship of North and Central America and the Caribbean

[Hortical]

Dem tek people fi fool bout contaminated food!


Clenbuterol

Common uses and directions for Clenbuterol
Clenbuterol is a prescribed asthma medication which is catabolic to fat and anabolic to muscle. Clenbuterol is not a steroid hormone but a beta-2-symphatomimetic.
Clenbuterol works very effectively as a fat burner. It does this by slightly increasing the body temperature.

Many athletes also claim that they enjoyed significant gains in muscle mass while using clenbuterol. There is no doubt that clenbuterol has an anabolic effect in animals but there are, though, no scientific evidence this also is true in humans. The same goes for the strong anticatabolic effect of clenbuterol, meaning it decreases the rate at which protein is reduced in the muscle cell, consequently causing an enlargement of muscle cells.

Clenbuterol should therefore be used primarily for fat loss and cutting purposes.

Possible side effects of clenbuterol include restlessness, palpitations, tremor, headache, increased perspiration, insomnia, possible muscle spasms, increased blood pressure and nausea.

Clenbuterol additional information:

Common uses
Clenbuterol (clenbuterol hydrochloride) is a prescribed asthma medication which is catabolic to fat and anabolic to muscle. Clenbuterol is not a steroid hormone but a beta-2-symphatomimetic.
Clenbuterol can cause a solid, highly qualitative muscle growth which goes hand in hand with a significant strength gain. Clenbuterol also has a strong anti-catabolic effect, which means it decreases the rate at which protein is reduced in the muscle cell, consequently causing an enlargement of muscle cells. For this reason, numerous athletes use clenbuterol after steroid treatment to balance the resulting catabolic phase and thus obtain maximum strength and muscle mass. Please note, though, there are no scientific evidence these effects, that are proven in animals, also occurs in humans during the use of clenbuterol.

Clenbuterol works very effectively as a fat burner. It does this by slightly increasing the body temperature. The rise is not usually dramatic, a half of a degree, sometimes a little more but rarely more than one degree. This elevation is due to the body will burn excess energy (largely from fat) and is usually not uncomfortable.

The body will fight this, though, by cutting down on the amount of active thyroid in the body as well as through beta-receptor down regulation, which explains why clenbuterol is effective only over a limited time period.

[Lionpaw]

and we all thought that they were just used to the high altitude. bugga dem thief eeh

[Nemesis]

Clenbuterol is the drug of choice for footballers. The Mexicans were careless because they should have known that people are looking for this.

[Bruce]

Clenbuterol burns fat and builds muscle. One of the grocery stores here sells beef labeled "Product Of Mexico". If I keep eating that stuff, will I be on the cover of MENS HEALTH?

[Gamma]

yes..but probably for the wrong reason!