FYI: If I Did A Bag Of Lance Armstrong's Blood, Could I Bike Up A Mountain?
Lance Armstrong Wikimedia CommonsNo surprise: performance enhancers enhance performance. But they might not give me the instant mountain-scaling boost I want. Hundreds of pages of fairly damning evidence came out against Lance Armstrong this week, accusing him of not only using performance enhancements but also of being "a bully" and developing "a culture of doping." It all leads to an obvious question: What about me? If I got up from my desk and injected some high-octane Armstrong juice, could I, too, win the Tour de France? No. But if I replicated his (alleged) process, I might be able to get up a mountain I couldn't get up before. Here's list of some stuff Armstrong is accused of doing--call it the Armstrong Cocktail. Let's go down the list. BLOOD DOPING This is something of a catch-all term, says Don Catlin, a pharmacologist at the University of California, Los Angeles. Most of the time, people...