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A heart pill taken by 9 million Americans quietly won and erased two Olympic medals
A heart pill taken by 9 million Americans quietly won and erased two Olympic medals
A commonplace cardiac drug quietly ended two Olympic medals in Beijing 2008 by removing the tremor that gives a shooter away - and by 2023 more than 9 million Americans filled prescriptions for that same pill. What exactly does propranolol do in the brain that made it both a lifesaving medicine and a performance-altering substance?
In this episode, we trace the drug’s path from James W. Black’s 1960s invention for angina to its sudden role in sport and performance, and we follow the medical and neuroscientific…
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