Doctors warn of growing demand for specific injections among professional athletes. So, leading football players constantly use drips before each game so that they affect their performance and mood.
Specific drips are becoming the norm in professional sports despite a lack of evidence for their safety and effectiveness. Some soccer, basketball or hockey players in the UK and the US are on these drips several times a week before and after games. They are not used as a dope, but use various nutrients like vitamins, amino acids and electrolytes that are usually found in healthy foods. That's just athletes prefer to get them directly into the blood.
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There are only assumptions that these injections increase a person's mood and reduce fatigue, but there is no scientific evidence for this. A group of doctors from famous football clubs in the UK believe that players should be encouraged to eat healthy and avoid untested IVs. Once this kind of procedure was the prerogative of celebrities in expensive clinics, but now they are available to everyone. And some companies offer holding these droppers right at home.
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Other firms invite patients to luxurious salons and clinics in the centers of megacities. Doctors emphasize that there is no convincing evidence of the effect of these droppers on athletic performance, but there is a risk that they will provoke long-term liver disease and nerve damage. (READ MORE)