Survey among triathletes finds correlation between
consumption of drugs enhancing physical and mental performance
Physical doping and brain doping apparently often go hand in
hand. A study from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and Eberhard Karls
University in Tubingen revealed that people who engage in physical doping often
also take drugs for brain doping. The study was the first of its kind to survey
simultaneously the two categories of doping and brain doping. Around 3,000
hobby triathletes were anonymously surveyed using a questionnaire at sporting
events in Frankfurt, Regensburg, and Wiesbaden. "The results correlated
with earlier findings about doping in leisure and popular sports and brain doping
in society as a whole. The findings also illustrated for the first time that
physical doping and brain doping often go together, at least for recreational
triathletes," said Mainz University Professor of Sports Medicine Dr. Dr.
Perikles Simon.