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  2. Evolutionary models of human drug use - Wikipedia

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    To explain how drugs increase dopamine and cause positive emotions while at the same time lowering reproductive fitness, researchers posited that evolutionarily novel drugs hijack the brain's mesolimbic dopamine system and generate a false positive signal of a fitness benefit as well as inhibiting negative effects, to signal a lack of negative ...

  3. Performance-enhancing substance - Wikipedia

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    The classifications of substances as performance-enhancing substances are not entirely clear-cut and objective. As in other types of categorization, certain prototype performance enhancers are universally classified as such (like anabolic steroids), whereas other substances (like vitamins and protein supplements) are virtually never classified as performance enhancers despite their effects on ...

  4. Afterglow (drug culture) - Wikipedia

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    Psychiatrist Walter Pahnke described afterglow as an “elevated and energetic mood with a relative freedom from concerns of the past and from guilt and anxiety.” [1] [2] This phenomenon contrasts with hangovers, a condition that follows the use of various substances, including alcohol. Common effects of afterglow are described by many drug ...

  5. Doping in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Doping, or the use of restricted performance-enhancing drugs in the United States occurs in different sports, most notably in the sports of baseball and football.. As of a 2024 study, 2.2% of U.S. athletes have self-reported to using anabolic steroids, peptide hormones, or blood manipulation.

  6. The Terrible—and Amazing—Side Effects of Weight Loss Drugs

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    GLP-1 drugs used for weight loss involve all kinds of side effects—good and not-so-good—that may or may not strike the average user. (Reminder that there are many of these meds now.

  7. Doping in sport - Wikipedia

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    In competitive sports, doping is the use of banned athletic performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) by athletes, as a way of cheating.As stated in the World Anti-Doping Code by WADA, doping is defined as the occurrence of one or more of the anti-doping rule violations outlined in Article 2.1 through Article 2.11 of the Code. [1]

  8. How Quitting Restrictive Routines Changed This Trainer’s Body ...

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    “The fitness community was so new, and it was cool to watch people change their body,” Ajahzi says. Soon, her perception of fitness revolved around caloric expenditure and being in deficit ...

  9. Bigger, Stronger, Faster* - Wikipedia

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    Bigger, Stronger, Faster* is a 2008 documentary film directed by Chris Bell about the use of anabolic steroids as performance-enhancing drugs in the United States and how this practice relates to the American Dream. The film had its world premiere [2] on January 19, 2008 at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. [3]