This is a very interesting article on sportingo.com:
A recent article claims that Lance Armstrong’s testicular cancer actually helped him during the Tour de France.
According to the authors, having your testicles cut off (well one, anyway) is performance enhancing. But perhaps in their over-zealousness to ‘unmuddy the waters’ of persistent doping allegations surrounding Armstrong, the authors have probably raised more questions than they have attempted to answer.
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The article outlines that surgical removal of testicles (even one) re-positions the body’s hormonal system, playing with the feedback system of normal testosterone production. Consequently, a cascade of events which allegedly favour or enhance endurance performance is proposed by the authors.
