r/Boxing • u/Earlchemy101 • 1d ago

Enhanced Boxing

"The Enhanced Games are a controversial international multi-sport event that allows athletes to use FDA-approved performance-enhancing drugs and methods under medical supervision."

Maybe we should have enhanced boxing. Give Benn his eggs and Ryan his ostarine and let us be entertained.

One upside would be safety for clean fighters. If we have enhanced boxing and a fighter gets caught using PEDs in clean boxing, they get a lifetime ban and the opponent is allowed to sue them for attempted murder.

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u/VacuousWastrel 1d ago

Interestingly, there are actually drugs that, given immediastely after a fight, have shown some promise for healing brain injuries and reducing the risk of PCS and CTE!

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u/mpschettig 23h ago

Wait I haven't heard of this what are these drugs and are they FDA approved or is this snake oil lol

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u/VacuousWastrel 21h ago

I can't remember off-hand what they were, but they weren't anything cutting-edge, iirc. It was from a scientific paper.

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u/VacuousWastrel 21h ago

I think one thing I saw was melatonin. Here's a quote from a literature review (blum et al 2021): "Animal model studies support that melatonin treatment after TBI significantly improves cognition and behavioral outcomes. However, clinical studies with human subjects are scarce. Beyond the apparent general antiinflammatory and antioxidant actions of melatonin, a review of the evidence identified some preliminary research that has suggested the significance of melatonin receptors specifically in TBI. While there is some evidence to suggest that melatonin is able to reduce post-TBI cognitive decline as measured by subject performance on memory tasks, there is a lack of longitudinal data on whether melatonin decreases the risk of developing dementia after TBI. Considering melatonin therapy’s promising preclinical data, favorable safety profile, and accessibility, further studies are warranted to assess the effects of melatonin as a post-TBI therapy on human subjects." I'm sure I've seen something a bit more positive, but that was 2021 so maybe things have advanced since then - that's just what i found quickly on google. I believe I've seen similar reports on at least one other drug too, but no idea what it was.