The Truth on Kingry’s favorite steroid

It’s interesting to monitor the nonsense on social media and boxing sites and YouTube podcasts that purport to be abreast of Ryan Garcia’s PEDS doping scandal and rush like fanboys to his defense. Osterine, which Ryan popped dirty for on both his A & B samples is on the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) list of prohibited substances due to its potential to enhance performance and cause negative health effects. Osterine is a Selective Androgen Receptor Modulator (SARM) that is not approved for human use or consumption, thus no medicines contain it. So, Ryan did not get it in his system from taking a prescription or over-the-counter medicine. Period. Also, Osterine is not permitted in any dietary supplements. But wait, here is where Team Garcia will try and outslick the media, and the commissions: Some dietary supplement manufacturers illegally put SARM’s such as Osterine in their products and market them as “legal steroids” or “research only” chemicals. Many even omit Osterine from the label or use different names to mislead or confuse consumers.

Every pro boxing team knows this, but they still swear to God they had no idea. It was in the meat. Someone farted on me and I ingested PED fumes. Someone in my camp spiked the chili beans. IT’S A CONSPIRACY! CONTI WAS IN ON IT! Lol. This is precisely why testing agencies and commissions operate under the legal theory of Strict Liability: which means the banned substance was either IN your system or NOT IN your system. Period. If it WAS in your system, it matters not if it was .000001 trillionth of a gram or 5 pounds or 7 gallons. You are solely 100% responsible. End of story. The info to avoid substances that cause a dirty test is easily available. Still, Ryan, like Canelo and all the other fighters who have popped dirty cling to the wording that a boxer must not intentionally violate the rules. “It wasn’t intentional; honest!”

On the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) website, they make available to anybody sections such as Check Your Medication & Supplement Connect. An athlete or trainer or Joe Blow merely chooses the sport they want guidance on such as ‘boxing’ then selects ‘athlete’. You then log in at zero cost. Voila! A chart pops up that provides supplement Product Title-Manufacturer- Product Image-Notes-Prohibited Substance (such as Oserine) -Warnings- Status Date. It’s a pretty comprehensive list of supplements to avoid: 1,062. Yes. 1,062. Pretty simple to check the supplements one is taking against this list. It gives you the brand name AND the image of the bottle/packaging. Might wanna peek at dat, right?

Best practice: avoid anything on that list. Even better practice: take only 100% natural supplements that are manufactured by reputable companies that have been in business for many years and have zero history of having contaminants in their product. Very easy to check NY, Las Vegas, LA, London, boxing commissions for the list of supplements that were claimed to be suspect… and then avoid those too.  Lol. STRICT LIABILITY, remember? If it gets in you by ANY method… its on YOU. And let’s not entertain the ridiculous notion of hair and nail ‘samples’. Zero chain of custody, zero supervision at collection, no DNA verification. Total BS!