واقعا متیل هگزامین چیست؟ تاثیر آن در بدن چیست و چرا مصرف آن این همه سر و صدا در پی داشته؟
متیل هگزامین (متیل آمیلامین) جز خانواده ی مونوآمین ها محسوب میشود درحالی که آمفتامین و افدرین هم در این خانواده قرار میگیرند، در پزشکی از این مواد به عنوان دکونژستانت های نسل قدیم استفاده میشود اما تمامی این مواد به علت شباهت ساختاری که به آدرنالین دارند خاصیت محرک بودن و انرژی زایی دارند این دارو ها در بعضی از کشورها به علت استفاده از آنها در پارتی های شبانه فقط با نسخه پزشکی به فروش میرسند، گفتنیست متیل هگزامین سال 2009 توسط کمیته ی جهانی ضد دوپینگ به لیست مواد ممنوعه ی ورزشی سال 2010 اضافه شد.
برخی تخلفات استفاده از متیل هگزامین در مسابقات ورزشی و پیامدهای آن:
In 2009, the World Anti-Doping Agency added methylhexanamine to the 2010 prohibited list.
Methylhexanamine was implicated as a stimulant used by five Jamaican athletes in 2009. JADCO, the Jamaican anti-doping panel, was initially unable to determine whether it was prohibited by the rules,[15] but subsequently decided to impose sanctions on some of the affected athletes on the grounds that the drug was similar in structure to the banned substance tuaminoheptane.
During the 2010 Commonwealth Games, Nigerian athlete Damola Osayemi was stripped of her gold medal in the 100m after methylhexanamine was detected during drug testing.[17] Subsequently, another Nigerian athlete, Samuel Okon, who finished sixth in the 110m hurdles, also tested positive for the drug.
In October 2010, two Portuguese cyclists—Rui Costa and his brother Mario—tested positive for the substance. The samples were taken during the Portuguese National Championships at the end of June.
In October 2010, nine Australian athletes have been found by Australian Sports Anti-doping Authority to have tested positive for the substance. These players may include NRL and AFL players.
In November 2010 two South African rugby union players, Chiliboy Ralepelle and Bjorn Basson, were found to have tested positive for the substance on their annual tour of the Northern Hemisphere, and were immediately sent home from the tour by the South African Rugby Union, although it is possible that the players may have ingested the substance inadvertently in the form of medication for flu symptoms.
In 2010 Belgian National Amateur Masters Champion Rudy Taelman was suspended for one year for a positive test for methylhexanamine. He successfully defended himself from accusations of willful doping by proving that a supplement called "Crack" had caused the non-negative test. It should be noted that he was an active anti-doping advocate, and ironically the one to call for the doping controls to which he was submitted.
In January 2011, the Greek basketball team Iraklis indefinitely suspended Matt Bouldin after he tested positive for methylhexanamine.
In May 2011, English Rugby League player Martin Gleeson was charged by UK Anti-Doping in June 2011 with committing an anti-doping rule violation after he tested positive for the banned stimulant methylhexaneamine.
American pro tennis player Robert Kendrick was disqualified from the 2011 French Open, and banned from tennis for 12 months by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) after testing positive for Methylhexaneamine at the event. The ban is currently being appealed by Kendrick, as he claims he took a pill to cope with jetlag without knowing it contained the substance, and the ITF wrote in their summary that it did not believe that Kendrick took the substance as a performance enhancer. However, it is the long stated practice of the Tennis Anti-Doping Program that the players are responsible for ensuring that no prohibited substances enter their body, unless they hold a valid exemption for therapeutic use, which Kendrick did not.
In August 2011, American sprinter Mike Rodgers tested positive for methylhexanamine, claiming he drank vodka with an energy drink at a club two days before a meeting in Lignano, Italy, which supposedly caused the positive test.
In October 2011, Canadian wakeboarder Aaron Rathy was stripped of his silver medal at the Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico, for testing positive for methylhexaneamine. In a statement, he blamed the use of the supplement OxyElite Pro, which he did not know contained the banned substance, for testing positive.
Also in October 2011, Saint Louis Cardinals Minor League outfielder Reggie Williams was suspended for 50 games for testing positive for methylhexaneamine.
In December 2011, Triathlete Dmitriy Smurov was suspended for 2 years for testing positive for methylhexaneamine.
In February 2012, the deaths of two U.S. soldiers who collapsed during physical training in the last few months have prompted a military investigation of the popular body-building supplement that was found in their systems.
In February 2012, Duathlete Sergio Silva was suspended for 6 months for testing positive for methylhexaneamine.