What is Glycerol Used For? As a legitimate training aid and bodybuilding supplement, glycerol is used to slow the loss of water from the body, or, to help remove excess water from the peripheral tissues. Glycerol is mostly used as a bodybuilding and athletic supplement because it helps to hold onto water. Endurance athletes take glycerol before a marathon to slow the removal of excess water from the body by the kidneys. Bodybuilders often take glycerol before a competition to remove the water from the peripheral tissues and bid it up in the blood to create a mare chiselled look. What’s So Controversial About Hydration and Dehydration? The hydration aspect of glycerol is not the cause of the ban by WADA. Glycerol is a plasma expander, which means that it could be used in ways similar to diuretics or serum albumin to mask illegitimate substances in the blood. How Will They Test for Glycerol? There is some debate and confusion surrounding the addition of glycerol to the banned substances list. After all, glycerol occurs naturally in the body as a by-product of fat metabolism, is found in the food we eat, the bodybuilding supplements that we legitimately take and the pharmaceutical products we need to keep us healthy.
Posted on: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 09:03:01 +0000
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