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fandomsecrets2014-02-11 06:38 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2014-02-11 06:38 pm
[ SECRET POST #2597 ]
⌈ Secret Post #2597 ⌋
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Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 047 secrets from Secret Submission Post #371.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 - titc ].
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Re: f!s
More seriously the way it's getting treated is really interesting in highlighting issues within the medical community, and the way we view drug enhancement. It's one of those things where on the very rare occasions where it's an observable mutation in humans there seems to be no health side-effects and doctors keep going "No, that can't be right"
Those people are basically X-Men and there are people in the medical community who can't fucking deal with that
And there are pharmaceutical companies pursuing myostatin antagonists as a medical treatment for conditions like muscular dystrophy and the question gets raised about healthy people using them as human augmentation and performance enhancing drugs for sports and the researchers are like "Yes, that is a potential concern but we can't deny people with horrible diseases a potential treatment because of that"
So some other people are like "Well I mean obviously there'd also be health problems for healthy people that would make it so there'd be a reason not to take them right" and the researchers kinda shuffle their feet and then shout SMOKE BOMB! and skitter out of the room awkwardly.
Because the answer so far as we can tell is "Not really?"
Re: f!s
But honestly, the answer is still 'because I'm not a mouse with [insert myostatin-responsive disease or knock in mutation here]' because I very much doubt that there will ever be any approval for use as a general supplement.
Even if continued testing indicated there were few detrimental side effects, the idea that any government body wouldn't just chuck this onto the list of controlled substances is just kind of hilarious to me. Insulin is a controlled substance in some countries because of the potential for people to use it for body modification. ...Insulin. Say nothing of anabolic steroids and HGH, though admittedly in these cases the potential for misuse and harmful side effects is much greater. In my opinion, it honestly boils down to population control and the preservation of human physiological averages... which is a large enough rant to fill several comments, so I'll close here.