A volleyball player from Brazil has also tested positive to sibutramine...

A word of warning to all people who use the Reductil weight loss drug is that if you enter into professional sports competitions you should know that the key ingredient of the drug namely sibutramine is a banned substance according to international doping regulations.

Ukmedix News has just come across reports that three athletes from Mexico have just been banned from the Pan American Games after they all tested positive for banned substances and rumor has it that they had been using the sibutramine drug. It is possible that they were unaware of the fact that Reductil contained substances that would be picked up by the doping authorities and thus they have now been banned from their chosen sports. One report that has been confirmed is that along with these three Mexican athletes, a volleyball player from Brazil has also tested positive to sibutramine.

Reductil is an extremely effective weight loss drug but it really should not be used by healthy athletes that are just trying to shed an extra pound or two. Reductil is a drug that is only meant to be given out with a doctor’s prescription and is indicated for people who have more serious weight problems.  If you are a professional sportsperson and you take any medication even if it seems to be very trivial you should always check with the relevant sporting associations to make sure that you do not finish up with a sporting ban.

To give you another example of a drug that many people do not realise is banned for sportsmen is the hair loss drug finasteride which is sold by the drug company Merck under the brand name of Propecia. It has absolutely no effect on the performance of the athletes but has been shown to act as a “masking agent” for other banned drugs.