Episode #2166
Enhanced Games
Books mentioned
Drugs Without the Hot Air
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Christian Angermayer and Dr. Aron D’Souza, co-founders of the Enhanced Games, discuss their Olympic-style event that permits performance-enhancing substances under medical supervision. The conversation covers their critique of anti-doping rules, the medical potential of such drugs, and broader topics including psychedelic therapy, drug policy, and corporate influence on the Olympics.
What they talked about
- Proposal for the Enhanced Games as an alternative to the Olympics
- Criticism of Olympic athlete pay and doping hypocrisy
- Transparency in performance-enhancing drug use
- Safety regulations and medical oversight for enhanced athletes
- Discussion of psychedelics for mental health and microdosing
- Debate on transgender athletes and chromosomal categories
- Future of human enhancement and gene editing in sports
- Comparison of creatine's past stigma to current enhancements
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