Health Sciences and Nursing

Health Sciences and Nursing

PED’S DEBATE

Performance-enhancing substances refer to the substance that a human takes to enhance how they perform different activities. The PED’s were banned in the athlete because they go against the spirit of sport, and it gives the athlete an unfair advantage over the rest in the field. The spirit of sport entails a celebration of a human spirit, their mind, and their body. When Peds are taken, they are said to violate the spirit of sport, which supports ethics, fairness, and honesty. Athletes, on several occasions, have been accused of cheating because of using PED like ergogenic aid. Athletes found to use these substances get banned from participating in athletic sport. However, this does not stop most athletes from using these PEDs. The paper will argue why the ban on PED’s should be lifted.

First, it should be lifted to even the field for all players. The cases of cheating only occur because the substances are banned. The main aim why people watch sport is because they want to witness different human ability and by allowing them to use PED’s their performance is improved. Secondly, it should be legalized to make life easy for a professional sports organization. The bodies have the responsibility of testing the athletes now and then for substance abuse. By lifting the ban, it will help remove the confusion of what is acceptable and what is banned performance enhancer. The athletes are not forbidden from taking stimulants like caffeine, but they are restrictions on stimulants like ephedrine. Therefore, it is a lot of pressure on athletes to watch what they eat and drink or even use just to avoid banned substances. By lifting the ban, it makes life easier for both the athlete and the professional sports organizations.

The other reason why the ban should be lifted is due to the many benefits it has on the body. PED’s help the body recover quickly and faster in case of an injury. When athletes are allowed to use PED’s, they perform better, which is also suitable for business. Athletes will continually use PED’s despite the ban, and therefore it is only fair to lift the ban and allow the athletes to perform better. Choosing to use performance enhancement substance is not against the spirit of sport. It is very human to want to perform better at any activity. The athletes should be given a choice of using the PED’s to help them be better athletes. By lifting the ban, it reduces the case of cheating and creases a safer and fairer environment for the athletes.

Gene doping in sport refers to a gene therapy that entails permanent altering of genetic makeup to enhance the performance of an activity by an athlete. It helps a person become better than themselves or even others because their genetic makeup is altered. Their genetics explains the difference between how different athletes respond to training. Therefore, gene doping allows the athletes to acquire new and better genes that will enable them to perform better. It is done by t injecting the gene carrier into a person or removing cells from a person transfecting them and then taking them back to the body. Gene doping can either have a permanent positive or negative impact on an athlete. The positive impact is that it enhances the sport performance of an individual choice of a gene. The negative implication is that the process could fail, which would lead do damage to personal health. Just like any other virus introduced in the body, it may fail, which leads to the alteration of some of the healthy genes in the body. The change may lead to someone getting sick and sometimes death. The other negative impact is that it is not suitable for an athlete’s longtime health. The genes that make an athlete run faster than an ordinary individual may lead to health deterioration i in the long run.

By allowing gene doping, it will change how we look at athletics. In athletics, it about an individual’s skills and talent and ability to do things better than others. When gene doping is allowed, the sporting activity will not be fair. First, it will be a sport for the rich. When an athlete has a gene therapy, they can run faster than an average human can, and therefore those that cannot afford it will never showcase their ability. It will change today’s athletes to a field of who can provide better technology to enhance their performance are than the best athlete in an activity. Secondly, it will also alter how we view athletics today because, currently, the field promotes fairness for all. Allowing gene doping makes the sport unfair because it is not because a person trains more or has good skills, it is about the genes being altered.

Gene doping is not something I would advocate for my children, myself, or my colleagues. The main reason being that this is a permanent process. The impact is lifelong, whether positive or negative, therefore, to be safer and better to avoid it. Secondly, I would also not recommend it due to the side effects like altering of other genes in the body. Gene doping involves altering specific genes, but in the end, it may end up affecting the good genes in the body. Lastly, I would not consider this strategy because it harms health in the long run. It is mainly caused by the body exceptionally performing activities, and therefore, after a given period, the organs fail. Thus, gene doping to enhance performance is not a strategy that I would consider.