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One of the hottest topics capturing the attention of athletes, coaches and trainers centers on using the drug rhEPO (recombinant erythropoietin). EPO (erythropoietin) is a hormone that is naturally produced in the body and primarily functions to stimulate the production of new red blood cells.

Increasing the amount of red blood cells increases the oxygen carrying capacity of the blood to deliver more oxygen to exercising muscles. The extra oxygen significantly increases the muscles’ energy production and can therefore help to improve athletic performance output ability; higher intensity and longer duration. These benefits have led to the widespread use of synthetic rhEPO drug doping.

Due to the increase in oxygen carrying capacity and other vasoactive effects of interest, EPO has also gained interest among athletes outside of the endurance crowd; strength athletes, including bodybuilders, who are looking to increase exercise intensity, training session volume and quality of their workouts and those who are equally interested in achieving the “perpetual pump”.

But there are even more interesting aspects to the EPO blood boosting story, including combating the fatigue causing drop in pH levels, a synergistic Nitric Oxide connection and enhanced nutrient delivery to stimulate muscle growth.

EPO-Red Blood Cells-Oxygen

From a straightforward athletic performance bio-energetic perspective, oxygen is required for the body to make energy (aerobically) to produce muscle contractions, in addition to anaerobic produced energy.

Within muscle cells, there are energy producing structures called mitochondria. Oxygen is used inside the mitochondria to drive the biochemical reactions that breakdown carbohydrates, fats and certain amino acids to produce energy in the form of ATP (adenosine tri-phosphate). This enables the body to convert the energy stored in foods to a form it can use in the body in the form of ATP.

These high energy ATP molecules are then used by the muscles as an energy source to power muscle contractions. So, more oxygen in the body/muscles yields more ATP generation, increasing muscle contractions, which results in improving athletic performance. This benefit of increasing oxygen in the body has lead to the reported use or suspected use of rhEPO by top endurance athletes.

Now, with the sports authorities cracking down on illegal rhEPO used in sports and the additional risk of potential harmful side effects of using rhEPO unsupervised, athletes are seeking alternative ways for boosting their own EPO and red blood cells, in addition to boosting their nitric oxide (NO) levels.

Natural EPO/Red Blood Cell Boosting

Athletes are now turning to natural EPO/red blood cell boosting performance enhancing products as alternatives to using the drug form, rhEPO. Sports science researchers have discovered that certain natural substances and nutrients can increase EPO levels, red blood cell production, plus additional related benefits for maximum endurance output, including increased blood flow.

Sports Performance Benefits of EPO

Medically, rhEPO is used to increase red blood cell count. Logically, since EPO accelerates red blood cell production, it also increases the oxygen carrying capacity of the blood and more oxygen to muscles and other tissues of the body. This primary benefit of rhEPO attracted the attention of the athletic community and led to the use (or alleged) of rhEPO by elite athletes.

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