Ergogenic Aids, Doping & Performance-Enhancing Substances

A Professional, Non-Prescriptive Education

Ergogenic Aids, Doping & Performance-Enhancing Substances is Book H5 of The Performance & Human Physiology Encyclopedia — a 93-volume, university-level library on what supplements and nutritional levers actually move — and what they don't. It is written for athletes, coaches and clinicians navigating the supplement aisle: deep enough that a professional already trained in the field keeps learning, structured clearly enough that a motivated reader can follow every step.

What you will find inside

• Doping & Performance Enhancement: The Landscape & This Book's Stance
• The Anti-Doping Framework: WADA, the Code & the Prohibited List
• Testing & Detection: How Anti-Doping Works
• Anabolic-Androgenic Steroids (AAS)
• Other Hormones: GH, IGF-1, Insulin & Thyroid
• SARMs, Peptides & Designer Drugs
• Blood Doping & Oxygen Transport: EPO, Transfusions & More
• Stimulants & Pharmacological "Enhancers"
• Other Methods & Categories
• The Health Risks: A Sober Accounting
• The Supplement–Doping Overlap: Contamination & Inadvertent Doping
• Ethics, Psychology & the "Clean Sport" Debate
• Putting It Into Practice: Education, Prevention & Support

How this book is written

• University level, without dilution. Exact scientific terminology, defined at first use — mechanisms, not just conclusions.
• Evidence graded, not asserted. Major claims carry a level, from A (strong) to D (expert opinion), so you always know how much weight to give them.
• Numbers, formulas, worked examples. Reference ranges, equations and solved calculations you can apply the same day.
• Myths confronted directly. Where a popular claim does not survive the evidence, the book says so — and shows why.
• Fully referenced (APA 7). References at the end of every chapter, plus a master bibliography.

13 chapters · approx. 106 pages · Book H5, Collection H — Advanced, Hormonal & Supplement Nutrition.