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The primary spokesperson is ETG club owner Marshall Burt. Please see the contact information above.

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For Press and media persons from countries other than the United States;

The ETG recognizes that Track & Field is a global sport and that each year many of you cover several track meets inside the United States for broadcast into your home countries outside North America. With that in mind, for interview purposes ETG club owner Marshall Burt is improving to some degree his speaking skills in Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, German, French, and Spanish.

ETG Annual Media Tour

Track & Field press and media persons value in-person opportunities to speak with athletes both in season and during the off season. To facilitate that end, the ETG has created an annual media tour. The objective is to provide a press and media availability at a common gathering place of Track & Field media. The ETG will engage in a media availability at the headquarters hotel [the morning of the final day of competition] of the following events;

--- [Fall].....NCAA Cross-Country Championships

--- [Winter].....NCAA Indoor Championships

Time and meeting room location details will be provided about 1 month prior to each event, posted here and in the Special Events page on the ETG website.

The annual media tour will officially begin in the Fall 2009.

Track & Field Writers Of America

The Track & Field Writers Of America [TAFWA] has more than 300 members including most of the top track and field journalists, statisticians, and photographers in the United States and around the world.

TAFWA is....."dedicated to improving press operations at track meets and in making life easier for writers, photographers, and statisticians". Along with other membership benefits, you'll receive a bi-monthly newsletter containing published track and field stories from around the U.S., as well as access to the TAFWA website.

They welcome you to join.

email --- TAFWA@aol.com

website --- http://www.tafwa.org

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United States Track & Field and Cross-Country Coaches Association

For all coaching related issues, as well as coaches rankings of collegiate track and cross-country programs. Serves as the official congregation of all track & field and cross-country coaches in the United States.

ETG Press & Media Communications

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[August 12, 2010] ----- ETG Press & Media Communication

Genetics vs. Training, and the winner is. If you still believe that sport performance is largely an "it's genetic" phenomenon, it may be wise to watch the 1 hour documentary [Ghost In Your Genes] aired on the PBS weekly show called NOVA. It first aired in 2007, and aired again in mid-2010. You can watch it online at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/genes/

If you learned about genes in your high school or college biology or genetics class, the final 10 minutes of this documentary alone will make you feel that the class was a major waste of your time.

From the documentary, you can inherit things other than your genes. Those things can change the function of your genes. Those things can be changed during your life by nurturing or lack there of, by smoking or lack there of, by stress or lack there of. You can function normally while your identical twin has severe autism.

How you live can alter your genetics. A famine during your great grandfather's childhood can affect your gene function today. And you can change that during your life. There may be things you don't know about your genes which is why the "it's genetic" belief system should probably be put on hold for while.

I first started looking into this subject in the late 1980's when I first noticed that something didn't add up in what people were saying about sport performance. I eventually took the information I collected and put it in this document...Genetics vs. Training http://www.theetgtrackclub.com/documents/Genetics%20vs%20Training.pdf

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".......elite athletes are still made and not born, though perhaps some may be made elite in one discipline more easily than others."

A.Jones --- Exercise and Sport Sciences Reviews....Volume 30 #4......October 2002.....page 184-190

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"The aim of this study was to compare the demographic characteristics of elite Kenyan runners with those of the general Kenyan population."

"Athletes were separated into two groups according to athletic success: those who competed in international competition and those who competed in national competition."

"A higher proportion of all athletes ran to school each day (controls 22%, national athletes 73%, international athletes 81%) and covered greater distances."

In conclusion, Kenyan runners are from a distinctive environmental background in terms of geographical distribution, ethnicity and traveled further to school, mostly by running."

"These findings highlight the importance of environmental and social factors in the success of Kenyan runners."

V. Onywera, et al --- Demographic characteristics of elite Kenyan endurance runners --- Journal of Sports Sciences.....Volume 24 #4....April 2006...page 415 - 422

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[August 10, 2010] ----- ETG Press & Media Communication

Diabetes being talked about as an irreversible disease process. Similar to how spinal cord paralysis, heart disease, cancer, etc, etc were talked about as irreversible.

Something to remember is that there are ---no--- cells in the human body that fail to be replaced. Your skin cells turnover at a given rate. Your entire skeleton each year. Your brain cells.

Thus the human body, by definition, is an ever changing organism. It responds to stimuli and the lack there of. Unless a limb is cut off, there is literally no such thing as irreversible damage.

Both Type I and Type II diabetes are reversible. I read one of the first studies on reversing Type I diabetes back around 1993. A kid had adult stem cells injected into his pancreas. They turned into insulin producing beta cells. The problem is that a Type I diabetic is a Type I diabetic due to their immune system attacking and killing off their insulin producing beta cells. Replacing those cells restores insulin producing ability but doesn't resolve the immune system problem, so the cells eventually get destroyed all over again. Many people are working on that, some more successfully than others.

Type II diabetes is much easier to reverse because the underlying mechanism behind Type II diabetes is the malfunctioning of a protein in the membranes of nerve and muscle fibers called Glut-4. It is a glucose transporter. The function of Glut-4 is critical in distance running. We spend a great deal of time in our sport doing workouts designed to increase the number of Glut-4 glucose transporters. The more Glut-4 we have, the more glucose we can extract out of our blood and transport into our nerves and muscles. Thus the faster we can run, and/or the longer we can go without fatigue. With weight gain comes fat deposits, and with fat deposits comes changes in the contents of the membranes of nerve and muscle fibers. With that comes malfunctioning, dysfunctioning Glut-4 glucose transporters.

Lower glucose transport from blood into nerve and muscle = higher blood glucose.

Making major changes in diet rather than focusing on making major changes in Glut-4 number and function [ie. exercise training] is highly unwise. Major changes in diet addresses a lot of health related things. Reversing Type II diabetes not being among them. With the weight loss and fat loss comes restoration of normal nerve and muscle membrane function. With that come normal Glut-4 function. With that comes reversal of Type II diabetes.

Prolonged muscle activity stimulates Glut-4 protein production.

The mechanism behind stimulating the Glut-4 gene to copy itself [gene transcription] and have the copy used as a blue print for production of the Glut-4 protein [gene translation] is the use of muscle activity for the depletion of the stored form of glucose in nerve and muscle, called glycogen. The more glycogen you deplete, the more Glut-4 you'll produce. That's because the body responds to depletion of carbo fuel sources by improving your ability to store more. To store more in nerve and muscle, you'll need to be able to transport more from the blood into nerve and muscle. Hence the increase in the Glut-4 glucose transporter.

Type II diabetes is an epidemic, and Traditional Medicine, not exercise physiology, has become the dominant approach to "treating" [ie. delayed death] rather than reversing the problem.

One of the reasons exercise physiology [and several other sport sciences] doesn't fall under the umbrella of "practicing medicine" is because it isn't taught at medical school. Neither is nutrition. At medical school, students are indoctrinated into the view of the human body being a slab of cement. Once cracks start to develop, there is no reversing them. Most doctors don't read research, let alone exercise physiology research, brain research, cancer research, heart disease research. Hence few get exposed to anything that causes them to question their medical training. As Americans, we don't behave like consumers when it comes to medical care. We examine our purchase of a toaster oven, cell phone, or computer more carefully than the competence of our medical providers. Buyer beware!!!

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"......the benefits that US health care currently deliver may not outweigh the aggregate health harm it imparts."

---- Journal Of The American Medical Association...Volume 302 #1..July 1, 2009...page 89 - 91

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It would likely be a surprise to most people in our country to learn that there is more published research on what is unfortunately called "alternative medicine" than Traditional Medicine. More comparative effectiveness research, more evidence base in nutriceuticals than pharmaceuticals. We have been indoctrinated from an early age to believe that the doctor knows all. That sprained ankle might be a broken ankle. See a doctor. That common cold might be pneumonia. See a doctor. That bug bite might be a tumor, see a doctor. And worst of all, "before starting an exercise program, see a doctor". "Before starting a diet, see a doctor". Though doctors have little or no training or research reading in exercise or nutrition.

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Lipitor does something different than Ambien. Thus all drugs are not the same. Likewise, be careful with the word "exercise". All exercise is not the same.

ETG Training To Live Training For Life Project

The ETG Exercise Program

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[July 30, 2010] ----- ETG Press & Media Communication

The link and article below are about Dirk Pohlmann of Knoxville, Tennessee. When Dirk was in high school [1985 grad of Fort Hunt High School, Alexandria, Virginia] I coached he and his younger sister Gabrielle [Gabrielle is currently ETG club member]. Dirk has been a cyclist since the late 1980's and will be inducted into the Greater Knoxville Sports Hall of Fame.

The full article including a photo of Dirk

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Pohlmann geared for Success: First cyclist in hall adds Knoxville to international recognition

By Mike Strange, Knoxville News Sentinel, July 18, 2010

When he first started racing bicycles around East Tennessee back in the late 1980s, Dirk Pohlmann would get some funny looks from the locals. "I was something of an oddity," he said. "It was like the circus came to town." But when Pohlmann left the country to race, it was a different story. In South America, bicycle racers were treated like royalty. "In Costa Rica," Pohlmann said, "you come in the airport and the people that take your passport look at your picture then ask for your autograph."

Better late than never, local recognition is coming. Pohlmann is a member of the 2010 induction class for the Greater Knoxville Sports Hall of Fame. A 44-year-old engineer with Shaw Environmental and Infastructure Inc., Pohlmann will be the first member to pedal his way into the GKSHOF on two wheels. "It's humbling," he said. "I've got a pretty good understanding of the people in the hall." And East Tennessee has a better understanding of the sport of cycling. Folks pedaling the roads in helmets and colorful jerseys is part of the landscape. Lance Armstrong's success in the Tour de France has raised cycling's visibility in the United States, even in the South. The annual Athens Twilight, a criterium event in Athens, Ga., attracts as many as 30,000 fans. Pohlmann is pleased to see the proliferation of riders at all levels. It wasn't the case when he was growing up in Alexandria, Va., with a yearning to race bicycles.

"I just didn't have an avenue to get into the sport," he said. "I didn't know anybody who did it." When he enrolled at the University of Tennessee in 1986 he found that someone in South Knoxville. Ron Wilson helped Pohlmann and a number of others get started in racing. "He was absolutely instrumental in laying the foundation," Pohlmann said. "He probably saved me about three years worth of development." Wilson remembers Pohlmann as a fast learner with ability. "In cycling," Wilson said, "you have to have skills and power, be smart enough to read how a race goes and know what your limitations are. "He was gifted." Pohlmann can name the date and site of his first race in 1988. He won and took home $150. That's about what a good night's shift bartending at The Library on The Strip would bring and he liked being on the bike a whole lot better.

By 1990 he was at the highest level as an amateur. In '91 he raced in France and even won a stage, a thrill he'll never forget. From 1994-97 he was a licensed pro. Racing paid the bills. Eat, sleep, train. Then do it again the next day. "Dirk," said Wilson, "was not the best sprinter and not the best climber, but, by golly, he was pretty good in all phases." Pohlmann spent fall and winter racing in South America. Stage races in Venezuela, Costa Rica, Peru, Chile and Panama are some of his best memories. "I won the prologue of the Tour of Costa Rica one year and wore the yellow jersey for a couple of days," he said. "I won a stage in Peru and wore yellow four days. "It really pushed you athletically, just the grind of racing day in, day out for two-and-a-half weeks." He left the circuit to "get a career," which turned out to be engineering. After an eight-year hiatus, he is back as an elite amateur racer, a member of the Texas Roadhouse Cycling team out of Louisville, Ky. He still wins awards, too. In the 2008 national meet he was "best all-around" in the 40-44 age group, based on strong finishes in road, time trial and criterium events. "All of us are in our late 30s or early 40s," he said. "I still need that competitive outlet. "And it's really neat to ride with some of my old peers." Nobody looks at them like they're escaped from the circus any more.

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[July 27, 2010] ----- ETG Press & Media Communication

Doping in sport is -not- a Federal crime. Lying to a Federal Investigator is a crime, thus the abuse of power by the Justice Dept., getting in front of an athlete -not- to investigate drug dealers, but to ask "did you use drugs". Marion Jones did jail time for lying, -not- for drug use. Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens cases not going well for the Justice Department. Now moving on to drag Lance Armstrong into the mud pit.

The modus operandi of the Justice Department stepping into sport doping. Ask an athlete who allegedly received drugs from the target of an investigation, "did you receive/use drugs".

--- If the athlete takes the 5th, leak it to the media

--- If the athlete admits to drug use, leak it to the media

--- If the athlete says "no", leak nothing other than that the athlete is "being investigated" or is a "part of the investigation".

Somewhat unfortunate when a few sports fans who happen to work for the Justice Department can use their power to go after athletes for things that are not illegal. Judge, jury, and reputation executioner.

In the Balco investigation, when Barry Bonds told a grand jury that he did not "knowingly" use steroids, he was saying the exact same thing that track athletes who admitted to drug use said. Top sprinter, Kelly White, was originally told by ...the Balco people that she was ingesting fish oil, keeping in mind this was in the days before the lay public knew what fish oil was or looked like. Some time later she found out that it was the steroid called "the clear".

She stopped taking it.

Sometime later, after the Balco people told her that Marion Jones was taking it, she began "knowingly" taking it. Several other athletes independently have given the same story about their own situations. To automatically dismiss the Bonds testimony to the grand jury as a lie is somewhat foolish. And now after painting everybody in baseball with the steroid brush, Jose Canseco has suddenly testified under oath to his knowledge Roger Clemens didn't use drugs.

It is -possible- that many of these people may have tried or experimented with drugs briefly at some point during their career. Maybe Lance Armstrong did. Whether they did or did not is literally -not- a federal crime, and certainly, other than the placebo effect, not what got them to the level of achievement that they reached.

The Problem With Drug Use & The Problem With Drug Testing

Sport Ethics has several sides to it, not just one. The intent to cheat exists, yes. Banning people's intent can be challenging. In football, offensive linemen hold defensive players. That doesn't draw a 2 year ban from sport, nor does the mere allegation destroy one's reputation and livelihood. In basketball the refs call phantom fouls on defenders when the most popular players try to shoot. No federal investigations. Michael Jordan routinely shoved defenders out of his way to get a shot off.

Examples of a breach of ethics that directly affect the outcome of games.

The status drugs have outside of sport, in culture and medicine, elevates drug use in sport to a different level than even direct in-game real time cheating.

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[July 19, 2010] ----- ETG Press & Media Communication

The women's 1500m event appears to have begun moving this year.

Performance wise, like the men's long jump, the women's 1500m event has been at a relative standstill for decades. It makes no sense that so many women 1500m runners can go sub 2:00 for 800m, but can't go sub 3:55 for 1500m. There is something seriously wrong with that. The women's 800m has suffered the same fate, especially Americans. So many American 800m runners can go in the low 50's for 400m, but can't break 1:56 for 800m. The 5 second rule should apply. 800m runners who have 400m pr's around 51 - 52 should be able to average around 56 per lap. That's 1:52 - 53, at or under the current World Record.

With Christin Wurth-Thomas's sub 4, we now have 5 American women at 3:59 or under for 1500m. Unfortunately though, Jan Merrill ran 4:02 about 35 years ago, and I was only 2 years out of high school when Mary Slaney ran 3:57 [1983]. About 15 years later, Suzy Favor ran 3:58. Over a full decade ago.

That's among the things I mean when I say that performance wise, the event has been at a relative standstill for decades.

The upside though, is that over the past 2 years we suddenly have 4 American women running at 4:00 or faster. Prior to that, we went about 25 years with a --cumulative-- total of only 4 American women All-Time at 4:00 or faster.

The event may be finally moving in a good direction, and perhaps no longer stalled.

Going from 800m to 1500m, one can apply the 7 - 8 second rule. Given that Mary Slaney ran 1:56 for 800m, she likely couldda, wouldda, shouldda been able to run around 3:49 or 3:50 for 1500m. At or faster than the current world record.

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[July 11, 2010] ----- ETG Press & Media Communication

The development of the ETG Training Program has been a major project. Now about 19 years in, I'm just now entering the ballpark of having completed the design of an outstanding training program and getting in position to do something with it. The link is to a newspaper article published in the Austin paper in 1992. [Austin American-Statesman March 25, 1992]. As I approach the light at the end of the tunnel, the article is a reminder of what this project has been about from the time it started.

It doesn't mention that I thought at the time that it would take me about 2 years to complete.

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[July 10, 2010] ----- ETG Press & Media Communication

My fitness level has been slowly moving forward for the past several months, with the rate of improvement just recently starting to approach something within sight of normal. After starting the progressions over again, I expect my main event [1500m] workout at 3:22 pace to eventually move forward in distance at a rate of about 25 - 100m every 1 to 1.5 months.

My body having been in a deeply over-trained, chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia state for quite a while, so far it has taken a year [after making the necessary changes to the ETG training program] to begin entering the ballpark of functioning normally again in terms of my body's ability to adapt to training and thus move forward in fitness and performance level. I can empathize with people who get into such a state [chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia] via non-sport training mechanisms. Around mid to late July [2009] things -began- to normalize somewhat and that process continued to improve deep into 2010.

I'll shift to 50m - 150m progressions after reaching the 400m mark, and to longer progressions [100m - 300m] at the 800m mark. So in having to change my expected time lines once again, at this point it'll take me till the end of 2010 or early 2011 to progress to being able to run 800m [1:48] at my 1500m goal pace. So it may take to the end of 2011 or early 2012 to progress to the full 1500m race distance on my goal pace [3:22].

Over the past several years, to facilitate problem solving and to demonstrate some degree of efficacy, with each change in the training program I have started over in the progression sequences, starting at very short durations in the goal pace workouts. A reminder of the changes I made to the ETG training program ----In early 2009, I changed the ETG training program to a format of having 2 days off after each of the 4 workouts and going to a 4 day break period at the end of the series of 4 workouts. Its helpful if one's body can stay in an anabolic state such that it can adapt to one's training thus moving forward in fitness, leading to increases in performance level. If the design of a training program allows the accumulation of fatigue, eventually there will be a suppressing effect on training adaptations, eventually slowing or stopping the rate of progression in fitness. That's -the- major challenge in designing a high intensity, velocity oriented type of training program. I had spent much of 2008 getting to the point where I recognized that the ETG workouts are basically miniature races that get longer as fitness improves and progressions in duration are made. It took a while to get the rest days and break period set at the necessary level. The final major change to the ETG training program was made in late 2009 and adjusted slightly in early 2010, setting up a "long run" protocol [and removing a --set-- velocity and goal pace requirement] as the Base Building workout in the 4th in the series of 4 workouts that comprise the training program. That was followed by the addition of a short run as a second Base Building workout, bringing the number of workouts to 5, that comprise the ETG training program.

Developing the ETG's velocity oriented training program has taken the better part of 18 years now, and the program's development appears to be entering the ballpark of critical mass. As my body's adaptational ability continues to come back online from it's previous state, I expect that I'll be able to make progressions in distance in my main event goal pace workouts at a higher rate in the latter half of 2010 than the rate of progression that took place during the first half of 2010 [which was quite dismal].

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[July 8, 2010] ----- ETG Press & Media Communication

Sport business and sport promotions aspects of LeBron James choosing a team. The NBA has to be very happy. Having a situation land in their lap, expanding a star athlete's name recognition to non-fans of the sport, the main requirement for expanding a sport's fan base.

Track & field can learn from this episode of Sport Promotions 101. The main requirement for expanding the sport's fan base in United States is to expand name recognition of track athletes among non-fans of the sport.

Landon Donovan had his chance to take advantage of his situation a few weeks ago. Unfortunately he handled it in the standard manner that people in track, soccer and other sports trying to break through in the U.S. typically handle things. Went the "Today Show" and "Good Morning America" route instead of getting on a direct flight from South Africa to Connecticut and camping out in front of ESPN headquarters for one or two days, moving his sport forward in the United States among non-soccer fans.

Track athletes do it too. If you want what you've never had, you'll have to do what you've never done.

In Track & Field we seem to be set on the strategy of promoting our sport by focusing on it collectively being the "#1 Track Team In The World". We have convinced ourselves that we can only do well in the United States by promoting the "team sport" aspect. Americans will only follow team sports. There has to be a winner and loser of a team competition.

Professional golf, and professional golfers may disagree. Viewers of Wimbledon and the U.S. Open in tennis may disagree. We in Track & Field, may need to reconsider our approach. Perhaps abandon potentially faulty assumptions we've been married to for a long time, for which we have no data to support. As the saying goes in science, "In God we trust, everybody else bring data. USA Track & Field, please bring data.

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[July 6, 2010] ----- ETG Press & Media Communication

USA Track & Field Championships, the winning time for the men's 1500m was unfortunate.

A debate that's entering it's 30th year at the very least. It's a debate about men, not so much the women. Ever since the days of Mary Decker Slaney the women have had no problem racing from wire to wire in championship finals.

It's the men who have issues.

Especially the American male 1500m runners. The norm for our runners dating back to the 1980's is to come to the U.S. Championship 1500m final having run one of the early season fastest times in the world, then set that fitness level off to the side and proceed to "jog 3 laps and sprint like a mad man", and hope things turnout well.

During the past 30 years, several of our top 1500m runners have been left off the U.S. team for the World Championships or Olympic Games, or at the very least had to wait most of the summer to see if any or all of the top 3 finishers hit a qualifying time. I would suggest that the learning curve hasn't been very steep, and the institutional memory among their coaches hasn't asserted itself in race planning all that much. Half-decade after half-decade the latest star always relearns the lesson of those who have gone before.

One may recall Hicham El Guerrouj ran fast from the gun in 1999 World Championship final and won. Then came into the 2000 Olympics convinced that "racing" would win the race in the Championship final, but discovered that such was not the case. Returned to logic and reason from there forward. An incomplete list of top 1500m American men who convinced themselves that "racing" would win the race in the Championship final, but discovered that such is not the case.......Sydney Maree, Steve Scott, Jim Spivey, Steve Holman,Alan Webb.

When you come into a Championship final with fitness, then willingly set it aside so you can supposedly "race" is no different than rolling a pair of dice or flipping a coin to determine how you'll do. Handing 12 to 15 guys a legitimate shot at beating you in a situation where you would otherwise only have to deal with 3 or 4. In sport psychology that's called self-sabotage, or "other-enhancement". Lots of published research on that behavior not just engaged in by athletes but by coaches as well.

In rebuttal to the argument that Championship finals is the place 1500m runners either "have to" and/or should jog 3 laps and sprint like a mad man. As one can see shown below, in none of these 1500m Championship finals was anybody in the top 3 trying to "race", a.k.a. jog 3 laps and sprint like a mad man. The sit and kick tactical race is a choice. Not a necessity.

Hicham El Guerrouj, in the 1500m final at the 1999 World Championships = 3:27.65 --- 3rd place = 3:30.57

Hicham El Guerrouj, in the 1500m final at the 2001 World Championships = 3:30.68 --- 3rd place = 3:31.54

Hicham El Guerrouj, in the 1500m final at the 2003 World Championships = 3:31.77 --- 3rd place = 3:33.17

The women's 1500m 2007 World Championships = 3:58.75 --- 3rd place = 4:00.82

2005 World Championships = 4:00.35 --- 3rd place = 4:02.45

2003 World Championships = 3:58.52 --- 3rd place = 3:59.95

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[June 27, 2010] ----- ETG Press & Media Communication

Drug use and drug testing are a sham and a scam. Over the past 25 years that I have been following sport sciences research and medical research I've seen results similar to the study below, only difference being that several of those studies were looking at the actual performance effects of the drugs, and had athletes in the placebo group that did as well or better than the drug group. Doesn't matter what the drug is. Testosterone, growth hormone, EPO, nandralone, etc, etc.

Blind faith in drugs obviously contributes to drug use.

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the placebo effect of so-called "performance enhancing" drugs.........

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"The placebo effect--- a change attributable only to an individual's belief in the efficacy of a treatment--- might provide a worthwhile improvement in physical performance."

"The present study explored the placebo effect in laboratory cycling performance...."

"Six well-trained male cyclists undertook two baseline and three experimental 10-km time trials. Subjects were informed that in the experimental trials they would each receive a placebo, 4.5 mg caffeine, and 9.0 mg caffeine, randomly assigned. However, placebos were administered in all experimental conditions. Semistructured interviews were also conducted to explore subjects' experience of the effects of the capsules before and after revealing the deception."

"....a likely beneficial 2.2% increase in power associated with experimental trials in which subjects believed they had ingested caffeine. A dose-response relationship was evident in experimental trials, with subjects producing 1.4% --less-- power than at baseline when they believed they had ingested a placebo, 1.3% --more-- power than at baseline when they believed they had ingested 4.5 mg caffeine, and 3.1% --more-- power than at baseline when they believed they had ingested 9.0 mg caffeine."

"All subjects reported caffeine-related symptoms."

"Quantitative and qualitative data suggest that placebo effects are associated with the administration of caffeine and that these effects may directly or indirectly enhance performance in well-trained cyclists."

C.J.Beedie, et al----- Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise....Volume 38 #12....December 2006....page 2159-2164

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[May 20, 2010] ----- ETG Press & Media Communication

Given the highly questionable supposed "positive" 2006 drug test involving Floyd Landis and the support for his position on it that I posted in previous ETG Press Communications, it is sad to find [via yesterday's admissions to doping] that he was experimenting with a number of drugs at various points in his career.

Noteworthy however, is his assertion about the 2006 drug test......

[article by Bonnie D. Ford ESPN.com] "As for his own positive test, Landis still maintains that result was inaccurate and that he had not used synthetic testosterone during the 2006 season....."-----"There must be some other explanation, whether it was done wrong or I don't know what"

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[May 18, 2010] ----- ETG Press & Media Communication

Drug Testing! One of the reasons it's important for everyone in sport to keep up with the work published in Sport Law journals. I've followed several journals all year around for over 15 years. What follows is an example of why its important to do so, from the Marquette Journal Of Sports Law ----

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"It also creates the risk that athletes will have their reputations, careers and livelihood ruined over drug test results that may not be based on the most accurate and reliable science."

"....even if a player is exonerated because the testing method is invalid, the damage to their career and reputation would have already been done. Although many in the doping control field would have athletes, and the public, believe that testing is accurate, reliable, and unchallengeable, there are some in their own arena that disagree and are critical of the entire anti-doping system."

"Donald A. Berry, a biostatistician.....Texas's MD Anderson Cancer Center argues that the anti-doping sciences are weak and something [he] regards not to be science. Berry dismisses financial and other objections by putting it bluntly: If we cannot as a society afford to fund that sort of effort, then we ought not to be trying to makes these measurements and ruin people's lives...."

"Doing it in a half-assed way is not serving anybody."

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G.F.E. Birren, J.C. Fransen --- The Body And The Law: How Physiological And Legal Obstacles Combine To Create Barriers To Accurate Drug Testing --- Marquette Journal Of Sports Law......Volume 19 #1......Fall 2008.....page 287 - 288

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[May 13, 2010] ----- ETG Press & Media Communication

For several decades in the United States our medical community has proliferated a culture surrounding prescription drugs and over-the-counter drugs. That culture has to some degree, bled into sport. The ETG would like to contribute to the bursting of the bubble people have about the effectiveness of drug use both inside and outside of sport.

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"Most drugs are only effective for a small percentage of people who take them."

Michael Leavitt [U.S. Secretary of Health & Human Services 2005 - 2009]

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"For every dollar we spend on prescription drugs, we spend a dollar to fix the complication."

Dr. Mehmet Oz [Professor of Surgery, Columbia University]

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"All the good things....they don't teach us in medical school, because the drug companies pay for our education."

Dr. John Sessions M.D.

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"......1.5 million U.S. residents are harmed or killed each year because of medication errors, according to an Institute of Medicine report."

Nature Medicine....Volume 12 #9....September 2006.....pg 984 - 985....News In Brief

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"....most doctors don't read or understand medical research..."

Richard Smith [editor, British Medical Journal]...........Volume 326 #14......June 2003]

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The doctors do not always know best and often fail to provide the appropriate care.

[Consumer Reports On Health&&April 2002 -- When Doctors Don't Know Best]

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"......the benefits that US health care currently deliver may not outweigh the aggregate health harm it imparts."

Journal Of The American Medical Association...Volume 302 #1..July 1, 2009...page 89 - 91

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"Less than 1 percent of our health care spending goes to examining what treatments are most effective. Less than 1 percent.......As a result too many doctors and patients are making decisions without the benefit of latest research.......A recent study for example, found that only half of all cardiac guidelines are based on scientific evidence."

President Barack Obama...Speech to the American Medical Association [June 15, 2009]

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[May 11, 2010] ----- ETG Press & Media Communication

Given the LaShawn Merritt [400-meter Olympic gold medalist] situation with DHEA in a male enhancement product, I'd like to call attention to more research based evidence that Drug use and drug testing are a sham and a scam.

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"Testosterone prohormones such as androstenedione, androstenediol, and dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) have been heavily marketed as testosterone-enhancing and muscle-building nutritional supplements for the past decade."

"Contrary to marketing claims, research to date indicates that the use of prohormone nutritional supplements (DHEA, androstenedione, androstenediol, and other steroid hormone supplements) does not produce either anabolic or ergogenic effects in men. Moreover, the use of prohormone nutritional supplements may raise the risk for negative health consequences."

G.A.Brown, et al --- Testosterone Prohormone Supplements

Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise.....Volume 38 #8....August 2006.....pg 1367-1537

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"As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." ---[Dick Cavett]

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[May 4, 2010] ----- ETG Press & Media Communication

"As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." ---[Dick Cavett]

My published research based mantra for the past decade and a half ---- Drug use and drug -testing- are a sham and a scam. Plenty of evidence for that. The latest has Track & Field websites buzzing this week. A Growth hormone study funded by what I believe is public enemy number one in our sport, the World Anti-Doping Agency [WADA], the study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

Ken Ho a co-author of the study--- "We found the enhancement in sprint capacity would correlate to a 0.4 second improvement over 10 seconds in a 100- meter dash.....This improvement could turn the last-place finisher in the Olympic finals into a gold medal winner.

Unless you work for a drug testing lab and want to see this study cause a stir to drive more funding, that statement may sound suspect. One may see why that statement may sound suspect when looking at the subject pool that was used in the study [ie. weekend warriors in their mid 20's to late 30's]. The year being 2010, not 1910, we know what training does to growth hormone production and testosterone production. As important, we know what a lack of training does to growth hormone production and testosterone production.

Thus, this study isn't much different than saying...."we injected growth hormone into some people who didn't have much, and oh my God, they improved."

Why is it that the drug testing crowd are the ones constantly driving the dumbing-down of our sport.

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One of my favorite research quotes............

British Journal Of Sports Medicine [Volume 37 #2....April 2003, pages 100-103, lead author M.J. Rennie].

"The over-exaggeration of the effects of growth hormone in muscle building is effectively promoting its abuse...."

"....there is the question of disinformation on rhGH....Part of this problem may, paradoxically, derive from the anti-doping authorities themselves. By ignoring the evidence the rhGH does not work in normal healthy subjects, the athletic establishment could be accused of effectively promoting its use."

"We must tell athletes the truth: growth hormone does not 'work' or at least not as they think it does and that its is associated with all kinds of immediate and long term hazards-----everything from decreased performance to cancer."

"....none of us scientists, doctors, coaches, or sports bodies should continue to suggest that this dangerous doping practice works."

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please see the ETG Training Packet section titled.....The Problem With Drug Use And Drug Testing

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[April 5, 2010] ----- ETG Press & Media Communication

People in our sport have seen the norm of where performance levels have been and from that, judged where limitations are set in stone. However, it may be important to consider that this norm may not be normal.

Our species moving closer to 4:25 per mile pace for half-marathon [about 13.1 miles]. We're gonna see a sub-2 hour marathon within the next few years. Human performance marches on as we loosen our obsession with training volume and focus on training velocity and body rest. In our life time we're gonna see a sub 3:40 mile, women go sub 4:00 for the mile and sub 1:50 for 800m.

Gladly, each advance in human performance has confronted us with ourselves, our mindsets, our constant setting and re-setting of limitations that keep turning out to -not- exist.

As any monk learning Kung Fu at a Shaolin temple already knows, our cells can do some pretty serious stuff.

Just a matter of learning how to go about training them to do it, preferably in a methodical, controllable way rather than by the luck of one track season, once, stumbling upon something that works.

In track & field, perhaps the best example of the setting and re-setting of artificial limitations started in the middle of the last century. The term, "the 4:00 mile", rarely failed to appear in the same sentence with the word, "barrier". Then somebody ran sub 4:00. And then somebody ran a 2 mile race averaging sub 4:00. In the 5000m [5k, about 3.1 miles] as a species we're now within a few years of going sub 4:00 per mile for that distance. The 10,000m [10k, about 6.2 miles] world record has already been at about 4:12 per mile pace.

The news flash is that we're -not- getting slower. We're -not- operating on less information about the human body as we enter this "information age". As we continue to acquire and apply more information, we continue to expand the area of what is possible for us to achieve. More specifically, as we grow in our understanding of how to design training stimuli, as we grow in our understanding of how a training stimulus activates gene transcription and translation processes, and do better at keeping the body in a state where it can respond optimally to that activation, human performance will continue to march forward.

That knowledge has applications to everything from breaking world records in sport, to cardiac rehab of senior citizens, to restoration of limb function in battlefield wounded military personnel. Reaching a critical mass of knowledge is the official finish line. Whoever gets to the finish line first, not only gets to help a few billion people for free, but gets to become a gazillionaire in the application of that knowledge across several sports.

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[March 27, 2010] ----- ETG Press & Media Communication

The ETG offers congrats to Canadian masters runner Rita Quibell, and her coach, ETG Physical Therapist, Allan Besselink. This weekend Rita finished second in the mile at the USA Indoor Masters Championships. Rita is 54 years old, ran 5:49 for the mile, finishing about 1 second out of first place in the 50 - 54 age group.

Allan was born and raised in Canada, and last summer Rita won the 2009 Canadian Masters Championships [50 - 54 age group] at 1500m and at 800m, and finished 2009 with times that made her #1 among Canadians at 1500m and 800m;

--- 1500m = 5:20 [about a 5:40 mile]

--- 800m = 2:35

In the 2009 World rankings for her age group: Rita finished the year among the top 25 in the World in both the 1500m and 800m.

Possibilities for records next year; for women age 55.....

--- current Canadian outdoor record at 1500m is 5:12.62 [about a 5:33 mile]

--- current World Record is 4:57.4 [about a 5:18 mile]

Earlier this year, Allan Besselink was elected as Chairman of the Sports Medicine & Sport Science Committee of the South Texas association of USA Track & Field [South Texas = the portion of Texas from Austin to the gulf coast]. Given his years of work with everyone from local road runners in Austin to world ranked track athletes and service on the medical staff for United States track & field teams, Allan is well qualified to represent our area of Texas to the national governing body.

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[March 25, 2010] ----- ETG Press & Media Communication

ETG club member Kyle Crosby owns -Lakeside-studio- where he produces local musicians in the Richmond Virginia area. Recently, a song from a band The Dreamscapes Project he recorded at his studio was featured by The 12 Days Project, a site dedicated to bringing together up and coming artists, writers, film makers, and musicians with local area charities and media outlets.

from the site, listed on Day 3 of the project--------

"Only days away from the anniversary of the completion of the great Titanic, we move on to Day 3 of the Twelve Days Project with with a song of the same name......"

"Engineered by Kyle Crosby at the brand new Lake Side Studios, this dark folk-rock track was mixed by John Morand at Sound of Music Studios."

Prior to opening his own studio, kyle was the keyboardist for the highly successful band "Copper Sails" which had appearances on the Richmond, Virginia local CBS news station's show called "Virginia This Morning", concerts at Richmond's giant venue called "The National", and songs licensed to MTV and ESPN off of their final album [Hiding Place]. Their song [Sleeping Giant] aired nationally in July 2008 during the "Diamond Cuts" segment of ESPN's "Baseball Tonight" highlight show. Their segment of the show......ESPN's Baseball Tonight.

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[March 25, 2010] ----- ETG Press & Media Communication

The ETG would like to give support to the outstanding comments of USA Track & Field CEO, Doug Logan, posted on his blog [Shin Splints], the March 8, 2010 entry titled "The Moment".

excerpts......

"At USATF, as administrators, events and television producers, and managers of the sport, it is our job to create the environment for these moments to take place and to showcase the drama, excitement and spectacle that is athletics. Unfortunately, this is an area that requires substantial improvement. Our events are not scripted to focus energy in the proper way. We are not pacing our meets to allow the drama to emerge. We do not use lights and music to our best advantage. Our PA systems are frequently inferior and our announcers could do a better job. We are committed to improving all these areas."

"It is in television production that these deficiencies are most noticeable. We are locked into a television "look and feel" that is archaic and flat, leaving many of our broadcasts looking like a piece of evidentiary documentation rather than a live drama. There is way too much superfluous talking during our broadcasts. We have incidences where we miss the "moment" completely, or it is masticated by an editor in the production of an event that is tape-delayed. The emotional reaction of the live crowd is rarely conveyed to the viewer."

"I ask for a bit of patience in fixing these problems, but they will be fixed." As is the case with many things in professional sports, committing more dollars to our events and broadcasts is one road to improvement. Money buys better venue enhancements, more cameras, better technology. How much we can and should commit is under consideration. And as many track purists have been carping about for years, we are looking to our friends across the Big Pond for how to make broadcasts more dynamic. Major League Soccer, my past employer, did not start producing consumer-friendly broadcasts of their notoriously difficult-to-translate sport until they Euro-ized their television presentation. The UK and Europe have some of the most entertaining broadcasts you can find in track and field, and there is much we can, and will, learn from them. I am committed to changing this paradigm."

"Our athletes deserve better. We owe them the respect they deserve for their talent, hard work and courage. Our fans deserve better for their passion. And, the sport deserves better."

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[March 13, 2010] ----- ETG Press & Media Communication

Former ETG club member Mike Morgovnik has recently moved up to the CAT-2 level of cycling. Over the past few years, Mike has finished at or near the top in major races in each category that he has progressed through [ie. CAT 5, CAT 4, CAT 3 races] thus far. That trend will likely continue through CAT 2 and perhaps all the way to the professional cycling level.

Mike was a serious cyclist prior to entering high school, but got into running in his freshman year, which is when I first coached him. Mike joined the ETG in the mid-1990's while attending the University of Virginia, and moved to Austin after graduation. He later joined the Austin Police department, and returned to cycling. I have continued working with him as an adviser to help in the design of his training program and consulting on nutrition and other issues that arise from time to time.

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[February 5, 2010] ----- ETG Press & Media Communication

The Expo for the Austin Marathon is coming up Saturday February 13. ETG Physical Therapist Allan Besselink will be speaking at 5pm. His session is titled "RunSmart: An Evidence-Based Approach To The Injured Runner". The Austin Marathon Expo wil be at the Palmer Events Center [900 Barton Springs Road].

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[February 3, 2010] ----- ETG Press & Media Communication

The link below is to a race finish picture of former ETG club member Mike Morgovnik winning the CAT-3 race at last weekend's Tour of New Braunfels.......in New Braunfels, Texas, a little ways south of Austin. Mike has now finished at or near the top in major races in each category that he has progressed through [ie. CAT 5, CAT 4, CAT 3 races]. That trend will likely continue through CAT 2 and perhaps all the way to the professional cycling level.

Some background --- Mike is a graduate of West Potomac high school [late-1980's], Alexandria Virginia. He was a serious cyclist prior to entering high school, but got into running which is when ETG club owner Marshall Burt coached him. That year he finished in the top 35 at the East Coast Cross-Country Championships. Fast forwarding....Mike left his college track team at the University of Virginia and joined the ETG and moved to Austin, Texas after graduation in the mid-1990's. He joined the Austin Police department, returned to cycling, and has been assigned to their downtown bike patrol unit [6th street area] for quite a few years. Got on the front page of the Austin newspaper escorting Lance Armstrong during a post Tour de France parade. Marshall has continued working with him as a periodic adviser to help in the design of his training program and consulting on nutrition and other issues that arise from time to time.

Mike Morgovnik winning the CAT 3 race at the 2010 Tour Of New Braunfels

At Sunday's meeting of the South Texas association of USA Track & Field, ETG Physical Therapist Allan Besselink was elected as Chairman of the Sports Medicine & Sport Science Committee. Given Allan's years of work with everyone from local road runners in Austin to world ranked track athletes and service on the medical staff for United States track & field teams, he is well qualified to represent our area of Texas to the national governing body.

The national governing body for road running, track, and cross-country [USA Track & Field] is comprised of smaller associations, each of which oversees an assigned geographical area. The portion of Texas from Austin to the gulf coast is assigned to the South Texas association of USA Track & Field.

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[January 13, 2010] ----- ETG Press & Media Communication

Distance event training tends to be a minefield of physiological myths, wives tales, and aggressively defended dogma, much of which one gets indoctrinated into believing early on. An unfortunate behavioral phenomenon related to human performance in sport is the manner that coaches and athletes tend to use their perceived "success" like jet fuel being poured on the raging forest fire of their training dogma, deeply entrenched, aggressively defended belief systems.

The problem is that "success" is a relative term, all but completely limited by the time period in history that you're talking about. World record holders have enjoyed much "success". But the world record for the mile when ETG club owner Marshall Burt was in high school is today a few seconds faster than a split in route to a 2 mile distance. The world record for 100 meters when he was in high school, if run today in the semi-final at a World Championship meet, would -not- automatically guarantee advancement to the final. The world record for the marathon when he was in high school, is today a time that can't win most of the major marathons on the planet, and for some races would be a half mile or more behind the 2nd or 3rd place finisher.

Given this situation, a training program that creates "success" is one that by definition, produces progressive increases in fitness and thus performance levels over time. Where the limit on performance is set by things other than the design of the training program. Something few if any training programs in our sport currently have "success" in doing, even for coaches and athletes who today are deemed to be the most successful.

The ETG hopes to contribute significantly in this new decade of 2010 - 2020 to moving human performance in a new direction in our sport.

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[December 15, 2009] ----- ETG Press & Media Communication

ETG Physical Therapist, Allan Besselink interviewed ETG Sport Nutritionist Marsha Beckermann on his talkRadio show a few weeks ago [November 24]. The timely subject of the show was "Eating For The Holidays". Marsha's interview on the show provides her knowledge from having been a Registered Dietitian who served as the "Food Coach" for the University of Texas Athletics programs for about 15 years. She has been a sport nutrition consultant for numerous professional and amateur athletes across many sports from NFL football players to world class track & field athletes. She is also a lecturer for sport sciences symposiums and local organizations. Marsha has the combination of being a dietitian --- who lives on a farm --- who managed one of the country's largest collegiate athletic dinning facilities for many years, providing her a unique perspective on issues related to food production, processing, preparation, and consumption.

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[December 12, 2009] ----- ETG Press & Media Communication

ETG Physical Therapist, Allan Besselink will be Allan will give a lecture at the Expo for the Austin Marathon, Saturday February 13, 2010 at 5pm. His lecture titled, "RunSmart: An Evidence-Based Approach To The Injured Runner" will discuss the controversy surrounding the treatment of running injuries, and present solutions for optimal recovery and return to training.

Allan is the author of the book titled.....""RunSmart: A Comprehensive Approach To Pain Free Running". He also hosts his own BlogTalkRadio show http://www.blogtalkradio.com/abesselink.

Earlier this year Allan presented a 4 hour lecture at the annual conference of the Texas Physical Therapy Association, as well as the meeting of the Central Texas branch of the association. His lecture was to help Physical Therapists in Texas and the Austin area better help runners come back from injury.His lecture was titled The Injured Runner: An Evidence-Based Approach. Part One: Running Injuries.

Last Spring, Allan gave an on camera interview with at RunTex Running Store in Austin, Texas, related to the RunTex Distance Challenge series of races.. And late this past Summer, he did an extensive on camera interview for a show called "The Authors", done at his book signing in Canada [Leeds County Books].

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[August 17, 2009] ----- ETG Press & Media Communication

Congratulations to Usain Bolt for yesterday's 9.58 for 100m [World Record]. Below is a re-posting of the latter part of an ETG Press Communication originally made last year on July 1, 2008 and mentioned again last year in the archived posting on August 17, 2008 [see the archive section towards the bottom of this webpage];

(July 1, 2008)..."These are great times to be alive and on this planet in our sport. We're going to see a 9.6 run for 100 meters. We're likely to see a 9.5 run for 100 meters. We're going to see a woman run under 10.4 for 100 meters. The limits of human performance are well outside of the ballpark in which many people in our sport believe them to be."

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At this point it is our hope that everybody in our sport has become open to the concept of re-thinking what they think they know about the limits of human performance. Its the 21rst century. Its early yet. More is coming, especially in distance running.

The application of sport sciences has only just begun.

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[July 1, 2009] ----- ETG Press & Media Communication

The legislative session in Texas has ended without movement on the issue of allowing Direct Access to physical therapy. The Texas legislature only meets once every 2 years, thus the failure to act on the Direct Access issue, during this era of Health Care Reform, ensures that weekend warriors and amateur athletes will continue for another 2 years paying --double-- the cost of care. Senior citizen Medicare patients will continue paying double the cost of care. High School athletes across most sports will continue to pay double the cost of care. Elite and professional Track & Field athletes will continue paying double the cost of care.

No legislative action was taken on the bill due to opposition from the Texas Medical Association [TMA]. Direct Access to physical therapy would remove the unnecessary doctor visit, thus removing payment to the doctor [ie. reducing the doctor's income]. The official position of the Texas Medical Association [TMA] is that there is a "patient safety" issue at stake.

In this fast approaching era of Evidence Based Medicine, one would expect the TMA to provide evidence to support a concern about "patient safety". When confronted, the spokesperson for the TMA has chosen not to provide this evidence. This is because 16 states have Direct Access to physical therapy. Many countries have had it for decades. The evidence fails to suggest a "patient safety" issue exists. In fact, it suggests that the opposite is the case.

During the lead-up to the next legislative session, the ETG will advocate for Direct Access in Texas and play an aggressive role in public and physical therapy patient education specifically for those who live in districts represented by state legislators who did the bidding of the Texas Medical Association in opposing Direct Access legislation.

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--- TV news story [3 minute segment] on Direct Access.......http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/video/18891587/index.html

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---- TV coverage [30 minutes] of a 2009 committee hearing and vote on a Direct Access bill in the California legislature........http://www.calchannel.com/channel/viewVideo/311

[forward the video to time 3:57, hearing ends at time 4:27]

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--- Study showing the cost of care is double if you do -not- have Direct Access.... Total paid claims averaged $2,236 for "physician referral" episodes as compared to $1,004 for "direct access" episodes published in Physical Therapy [Volume 77 #1, January 1997]

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--- Bill in U.S. Congress [2009], provides Direct Access to Physical Therapy for Medicare patients [H.R.-1829]

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--- Texas Medical Association's explanation [3 sentences] of their opposition to Direct Access in Texas.

http://bloggedarteries.texmed.org/2009/0....-on-health.html

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--- Study suggesting that Medical Doctors lack knowledge and may often fail to adhere to treatment guidelines;

"Both orthopaedic surgeons' and family physicians' knowledge of treating Low Back Pain is deficient.----"Most orthopaedists incorrectly responded that they would send their patients for radiologic evaluations. They would also preferentially prescribe cyclo-oxygenase-2-specific nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, despite the guidelines recommendations......"---[Spine.....Volume 34 #15....July 1, 2009....page 1600 - 1603 A.S.Finestone et al.]

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--- Study suggesting that Physical Therapists may be more qualified than Medical Doctors;

"physical therapists.......demonstrated higher scores than medical students, physician interns and residents, active duty military physicians, and all physician specialists except for orthopedists."---[Military Medicine....Volume 172 #4....April 2007....page 440 - 445] J.D.Childs et al]

General Archive ------- Selected Press & Media Communications

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[November 13, 2008] ----- ETG Press & Media Communication

ETG Nutrition

The link is to a section of the ETG Training Packet on training day Nutrition protocols.

ETG Nutrients [Supplements & Food]

It includes a nutritional supplement list. A large part of the intent in selecting each specific supplement thats on the ETG supplements list was for their extensive use in the area of Nutritional Medicine in the United States.

Nearly all of the specific products on the list are highly used products by practitioners of Nutritional Medicine and Naturopathic Medicine in the United States. The manufacturers of the products are among the best at what they do.

The nature of the supplements on the ETG supplements list is that they are fairly low in dose but extremely high in potency. Most nutritional supplements are either a worthless dose and low in potency, or an enormous dose and low in potency, or an enormous dose and worthless potency.

The nutritional supplement industry in the United States is a quagmire. It consists of.......

--- A lot of well intentioned manufactures who produce very good products that aren't the best that can be produced

--- A lot of well intentioned manufactures who produce products that they truly believe in, but probably shouldn't

--- A few manufacturers who are out to steal your money

--- A few manufacturers that make both vitamins for the general public and steroids for hospitals and doctors offices, some doing so in the same building, with the same equipment, with unfortunate results for people who don't want steroid residue in their vitamins

--- Extremely few manufacturers who have kept up with research and produced a product that is in the form that it needs to be in, and does in the body what it is supposed to do.

The list has been updated recently to include all the supplements embedded in the ETG Nutrition protocol. The nature of the ETG training program is such that it creates a massive demand for a relatively high nutrient density on training days. The upside is that there are only 4 training days spread across a 14 day period of time, so the supplement intake is high only for 4 days out of every 14.

This will likely be the last list in terms of adding anything new, rather than just switching a product manufacturer. There are 17 items on the list in either liquid [ie. juices or drinks] or vegetable capsule form.

The latest additions =

--- Colostrum [capsules, have to order from PerCoBa (the manufacturer) or Real Food Grocery (realfoodgrocery.com)]

--- Aloe Vera (Lily Of The Desert) [drink, sold at Whole Foods Market]

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[September 3, 2008] ----- ETG Press & Media Communication

About Colostrum and the concept of applying Preventive Medicine & Nutritional Medicine substances to athletes and to sport performance...........

In the interest of the broad effects of Preventive Medicine and Nutritional Medicine at a time in history when there is a rapid transition underway, headed away from Traditional Medicine and it's pharmaceuticals and toward Preventive Medicine and Nutritional Medicine and their foundational nutrients approach to human cellular function, the ETG would like to express its opposition to the World Anti-doping Agency [WADA] position [taken earlier this year] on Colostrum. Whether for athletes or the general public, a recommendation to avoid use of a product that benefits long term health is a WADA position that cannot be defended. The original purpose of a "banned list" was to protect the health of athletes, not to "catch the drug cheats", or level a playing field. Coming out against a non-drug product that protects health is nonsensical.

The ETG currently has no plans to avoid use of Colostrum, and to the contrary, recently added it to it's "Supplements List", shown on the ETG Training Packet page of this website, in "The Food & Supplements" section of the packet.

Colostrum is a substance similar to milk that is produced in the breast by humans [women] and animals for use by newborns to aid their physiological development and growth. It contains a number of digestive tract, brain/nervous system, and immune system substances that are basic nutrients and proteins for these areas of function. It also contains a number of basic cell function substances as well as growth factors that are used in normal cellular adaptations and recovery from major stressors and traumas.

When taken by adults as an extremely popular aspect of Preventive Medicine, Nutritional Medicine, and Naturo-pathic Medicine particularly for those who have nutrient deficits [ie. hospital patients, elderly nursing home residents, high level athletes], or by those who suffer from immune system related maladies or challenges [allergies, common cold, infection, high level athletes in heavy training] colostrum can be a major restorer of normal functioning. From heart disease and cancer, to fibromyalgia and infections, colostrum addresses many of the nutritional components of these maladies.

The major health triad.....digestive tract, brain/nervous system, and immune system, have become the 3 main targets in the modern day practice of Preventive Medicine, Nutritional Medicine, and Naturo-pathic Medicine. Colostrum is one substance that has the ability to address all 3.

Of concern to some [ie. World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)] is that similar to human Colostrum, colostrum from cows contains Growth Hormone along with its best friend and side-kick, IGF-1. These substances are comprised of proteins. When consumed by mouth, these proteins enter the digestive tract, where they get broken down in the stomach [ie. Digested]. Thus they are no longer Growth Hormone or IGF-1.

When you correct nutritional and other deficits in humans, you see cell function return to normal, and thus if you measure things such as growth hormone levels and/or IGF-1 levels, you'll likely see an increase. The increase was due to restoring normal cell function, not Growth Hormone ingestion or IGF-1 ingestion. Obviously, this point added to the situation where we know that growth hormone is not a performance enhancing drug [see the ETG Training Packet section titled The Problem With Drug Use & The Problem With Drug Testing ], should remove any cause for concern in using Colostrum to aid ones health and/or cellular functioning. The original purpose of a banned drug list in sport was to protect the health of athletes. Colostrum is a super-star in ever expanding field of Nutrition Medicine.

You can't protect the health of athletes by telling them to not take things that protect their health.

Product suggestion..... PerCoBa Colostrum

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"We investigated whether supplementation with 60 grams per day of bovine colostrum affects blood levels of insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) and IGF binding protein-3 in relation to doping testing."

"Nine endurance-trained men ingested 60 g/d of bovine colostrum for 4 wk."

"After 4 wk urine and blood samples were taken...."

"Drug testing in a laboratory accredited by the International Olympic Committee did not show any forbidden substance before or after 4 wk of supplementation."

"Daily supplementation with 60 g of bovine colostrum for 4 wk does not change blood IGF-I or IGF binding protein-3 levels and does not elicit positive results on drug tests."

Nutrition.....Volume 18 # 7-8...July-August, 2002....page 566 - 567

H. Kuipers, et al....[Department of Movement Sciences, Maastricht University, The Netherlands] --- Effects of oral bovine colostrum supplementation on serum insulin-like growth factor-I levels

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"This study examined the effect of supplementation with concentrated bovine colostrum protein powder (intact) on plasma insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) concentrations..."

"We conclude that supplementation with intact powder did not increase plasma IGF-I concentrations....after 8 weeks of supplementation,"

J.D. Buckley, et al [University of South Australia, Adelaide] -----Bovine colostrum supplementation during endurance running training improves recovery, but not performance

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"IGF-1 is present in breast milk."

Gut.....Volume 51....2002....page 748-754

A .G. Cummins, F. M. Thompson [Bazil Hetzel Research Institute and the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia] ----Effect of breast milk and weaning on epithelial growth of the small intestine in humans

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"Natural colostrum contains several substances, including IGF-1 which is listed as a prohibited substance (section S2 of the Prohibited List)."

"Taking into account the above elements and the fact that there is still scientific uncertainty on the ability for IGF-1 contained in colostrum to influence plasma levels of IGF-1, the WADA List Committee adopted a safe approach and recommends athletes not to take colostrum".

[World Anti-Doping Agency 2008]

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"WADA would like to take this opportunity to emphasize that colostrum contains Insulin Growth Factor-1 (IGF-1) a substance prohibited under section S.2 of the 2008 WADA Prohibited List. Even if influence of oral intake of colostrum on plasma concentration of IGF-1 is still a matter of debate within the scientific community, WADA would like to alert that abnormal increase or level of blood circulating IGF-1 would be considered as potentially revealing doping practices (e.g hGH or IGF-1 intake) by athletes."

"WADA wishes to draw your utmost care in the use of colostrum by athletes."

[March 19, 2008.....Dr Olivier Rabin, Director, Science of the World Anti Doping Agency(WADA)]

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[February 7, 2009] ----- ETG Press & Media Communication

In the United States, "the other" financial crisis looming is in the form of Traditional Medicine. It's drug oriented culture may finish the job of bankrupting the country.

The ETG supports major changes to the health care system in the United States, particularly as it relates to the practice of Traditional Medicine. We welcome a move away from Traditional Medicine by large numbers of it's "customers". We also welcome a change in belief system and behavior in the practitioners of Traditional Medicine.

Along those lines, the article below is a directive to all medical doctors in the United States, issued by their professional organizations. It's existence represents a major move forward in the right direction, though medical doctors usually fail to read such information.

excerpts from the article......

[Doctors Urged to Prescribe Exercise....By Todd Zwillich WebMD Health News....Nov. 5, 2007] ---- "The groups, including the American Medical Association (AMA) and the American College of Sports Medicine, want doctors to order regular exercise for practically all their patients."

"The new campaign is called 'Exercise is Medicine'."

"Doctors must now take moderate exercise 'and prescribe it liberally to their patients,' says Robert Sallis, MD, president of the American College of Sports Medicine. 'Every physician, every specialty has to be on this same message'."

"Exercise is really a free medication," AMA President Ron Davis, MD, told reporters at a briefing in Washington. Davis said that exercise should not be an "option" but should be as critical as blood pressure or cholesterol tests."

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[November 12, 2008] ----- ETG Press & Media Communication

Earlier this year here in Texas, a program was started to drug test quite a few high school athletes. Texas is a large state, so thats a lot of money going to somebody.

Obviously, given the ETG position and mantra that "Drug use & drug testing are a sham and a scam", it was expected that this drug testing program would be consistent with that mantra. Below is an article from the USA TODAY newspaper that reports on how things were going. The ETG hopes that the 2 out of 10,000 high school athletes that supposedly tested positive, did in fact actually take something.

The ETG agrees with Republican, Texas state Senator Dan Patrick's comment...."It's turned out to be a colossal waste of taxpayer money"

We would add to that, the Nixon era suggestion of.....Follow the money!!!

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USA Today, July 2008 [excerpts]......

"The nation's largest steroids testing program caught only two Texas high school athletes taking unauthorized substances out of more than 10,000 students who were tested, according to results issued by the state Wednesday.

The results renewed criticism about the two-year $6 million program approved by lawmakers last year.

Documents obtained by The Associated Press showed that a senior tested positive for the anabolic steroid boldenone, and a 10th grader was found using a steroid called methylandrostandiol.

A critic, Republican state Sen. Dan Patrick, said the initiative is a "feel good" program that is not acting as a deterrent and should be abolished. "It's turned out to be a colossal waste of taxpayer money," said Patrick. He said he would rather spend the money battling alcohol abuse among teens, arguing that it is a much bigger problem.

The contract was awarded to the National Center for Drug Free Sport, which also handles testing for the NCAA.

In submitting its results to the UIL, the company wrote that "we must steer clear of the temptation to use the number of positive cases generated by this short period of testing to draw any conclusions about the success, or lack thereof, of this testing initiative."

Random testing resumes in the fall, and state officials say 40,000 to 50,000 student athletes will be screened during the school year.

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[November 3, 2008] ----- ETG Press & Media Communication

About the "Race For The Cure" in Austin, Texas.

Prior to the start of these races, someone from the Komen Foundation usually gives a brief speech. The entirety of what follows below is what the ETG would like one of them to say to the people gathered for this race in Austin, Texas.......

"Following this morning's race, we will be changing the name of the race. Starting tomorrow the new name will be.....The Race To Read & Apply Cancer Research."

"We have several reasons for changing the name of the race. The main ones are that we only put about 25% of the money we raise toward researching a cure for cancer, so the current name of our race has mislead thousands of our participants over the years. Though we put about 25% of the money we raise toward researching a cure for cancer, only a small fraction of the work thats done and published in reputable research journals either gets read or applied. Thus we want to call attention to that. We want our pink ribbons to become a symbol that raises awarenss of the existence of billions of dollars of cancer research that has already been completed and published and is waiting to be applied by practitioners of traditional medicine."

"We have recently become aware that ---a cure--- for cancer won't look like a pill, but instead, will look like a step by step protocol of moving the patient through a series of behavioral, nutritional, and immuno therapies that sufficiently alter the status and function of the patient's immune system and nervous system."

"A large number of previously "terminal" cancer patients saved their own lives through stumbling upon a haphazard mix of self-care modalities that reversed the course of their disease and put them into what Traditional Medicine refers to as 'Spontaneous Remission'."

"Our goal in changing the name of our race is to have our pink ribbons raise awareness of the existing research on these modalities in hopes that no patient will ever again have to go it alone, haphazardly stumbling upon these therapies by experimentation or by accident."

ETG Competent Self-Care.....Reversing Cancer

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[August 17, 2008] ----- ETG Press & Media Communication

Usain Bolt's performance of not really running the final 30 meters or so of the Olympic final at 100 meters, yet still finishing in 9.69, warrants one final repetition of the ETG Press Communication below. First posted June 2, 2008, and repeated on July 1, 2008, we offer it once again as reminder of where human performance is headed.

[repeated from July 1, 2008]......

Given Tyson Gay's 9.68 100m performance last week, its worth rewinding and playing again the ETG Press & Media Communication from early last month [June 2, 2008]..........

Obadele Thompson ran 9.69 at altitude [El Paso, Texas] with an aiding wind of about 5 meters per second. Tyson Gay ran 9.68 at sea level with the wind at about 4 meters per second. So there are now 2 athletes in the 9.6 area with the aiding conditions on the decline, and there is now an official world record nearing the sub 9.7 performance level. With that in mind we're replaying below, the June 2 communication--------

The 100 meter World Record was broken last weekend.

The ETG is not a club for sprinters, but some comments......

We're seeing a positive trend in sprinting. A gradually more consistent move toward the necessary long, high velocity training of the long sprinter being applied toward running the 100 meter dash event.

Physiologically, the 100m dash is an in fact, an --endurance-- event. Even the fastest sprinters in the world fail to hold their maximum velocity for more than 10 - 20 meters of the race. The person who slows down the least after reaching his/her maximum velocity is the person who has the highest level of performance. Being aerobically fit at --very-- high velocities is the underlying mechanism of performance for this event and the pathway to further world records. In years past, we've seen members of the Santa Monica track club [ie. Carl Lewis, Leroy Burrell, Mike Marsh] and others [ie. Tyson Gay, Allyson Felix, etc.] have some of their best years when having done well in an abundance of relatively long, high velocity workouts [200 - 600m], and now we've seen the lengthening line of long sprinters who have moved down and experienced high level success at the 200 and 100 meters [ie. FloJo, Michael Johnson, Usain Bolt].

In our sport, we can expect to see the continued move forward of the 100m World Record, perhaps on a more frequent basis, as sprint coaches begin to effectively piece together this aspect of the underlying mechanism of performance for this event, and successfully develop a standardized protocol that addresses it. As some in the sport get this done, we'll see more sprinters, male and female, running major times on a more frequent and more consistent basis as their training programs empower them to have a greater level of controllability over their performance level.

These are great times to be alive and on this planet in our sport. We're going to see a 9.6 run for 100 meters. We're likely to see a 9.5 run for 100 meters. We're going to see a woman run under 10.4 for 100 meters. The limits of human performance are well outside of the ballpark in which many people in our sport believe them to be.

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[May 9, 2008] ----- ETG Press & Media Communication

The ETG offers congratulations to Shalane Flanagan and her coach John Cook. Last year Shalane Flanagan broke indoor American Record at 3000 meters [8:33] as well as the outdoor American Record at 5000m [14:44], and last weekend she broke the American Record at 10,000 meters by close to 20 seconds, with an absolutely outstanding performance, 30:34.

John Cook was the college coach of ETG club owner Marshall Burt, at George Mason University back in the early 1980's. The ETG wishes them well this summer in moving the 5000 meter American Record further forward.

Marshall Burt college team photo located on page 3 of this document which can also be located on the ETG Packets page of this website, titled "Marshall's Old Photos".

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[December 18, 2007] ----- ETG Press & Media Communication

In the news lately, Major League Baseball players and growth hormone.

One can spend as much as $1500 per month on growth hormone, not know which form of it one needs to have what effect, not know what form of it is being used, not know to what degree it will down-regulate brain cell function responsible for stimulating one's own growth hormone production, and not knowing to what degree that will decrease supposed training recovery, slow injury healing, and decrease performance. In contrast, one could spend $30 per month on a fitness club membership. There one can sit in the sauna or hot Jacuzzi for 10 minutes a couple times per week and elevate one's own growth hormone levels, the forms that do increase training recovery, injury healing, etc, etc, and do so to levels more effective than those one can safely inject.

Perhaps that is the wiser way to go, whether one is a professional athlete looking for improved training recovery or a senior citizen looking for renewed vigor.

The ETG calls attention to the following quote from an article in the research publication called the British Journal Of Sports Medicine [Volume 37 #2....April 2003, pages 100-103, lead author M.J. Rennie]. It communicates something along the same lines as our mantra of "drug use and drug testing are a sham and a scam"

the statement.....

"The over-exaggeration of the effects of growth hormone in muscle building is effectively promoting its abuse...."

"....there is the question of disinformation on rhGH....Part of this problem may, paradoxically, derive from the anti-doping authorities themselves. By ignoring the evidence the rhGH does not work in normal healthy subjects, the athletic establishment could be accused of effectively promoting its use."

"We must tell athletes the truth: growth hormone does not 'work' or at least not as they think it does and that its is associated with all kinds of immediate and long term hazards-----everything from decreased performance to cancer."

"....none of us scientists, doctors, coaches, or sports bodies should continue to suggest that this dangerous doping practice works."

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[October 24, 2007] ----- ETG Press & Media Communication

October is a cancer "Awareness" month.

In the United States, cancer is an Industry, the existence of which most Americans are not aware. Thus, we'd be far better-off if we made October a "Cancer Industry" awareness month.

Few people read published cancer research. One would like for the exception to that statement to be doctors that work with cancer patients. Unfortunately they aren't, particularly if the research doesn't involve a drug, removal of body parts, or doing something else --to-- rather than in conjunction --with-- a patient. "If you can't do a procedure or use a drug, tell the patient nothing can be done", seems to be the unspoken policy. This along with pink ribbons, yellow wristbands, and races supposedly for "the cure", all contribute to the image that says that we as humans, know little, nothing, or not enough about the cause, prevention, and cure for this disease. This is at odds with reality. On this planet, we have spent at least one -Trillion- dollars on research. Those studies have been published.

The reality of life on this planet today......One can successfully argue [since the evidence is printed in non-eraseable ink] that for the vast majority of cancers in the vast majority of people who "get cancer", we know the likely mechanisms of causation, we know effective preventive methods, and most importantly we know and understand the mechanisms of reversal of the disease and are quite capable of teaching patients how to address those mechanisms.

An "awareness" month for that would be helpful as well. Perhaps November.

The standard belief system.........We have no idea what causes most cancers in most of the people who have cancer. There is little one can do to prevent most cancers other than live various cliches such as "diet and exercise". There is little one can do to treat cancer other than radiation poisoning and/or chemical poisoning. Any other treatment path is giving people "false hope" and grounds for placing a doctor's name on a "quack watch" list created by far more "competent" physicians.

This is what the Cancer Industry looks like. An "awareness" month should make us aware of those realities.

We do know something about this disease. That would become evident to most of our citizenry if funding for more research were cut off today. By tomorrow morning we would see many researchers stepping forward with treatments and prevention advice that most citizens of our country might never have known even existed.

Since the 1970's the standard line has been, "a cure for cancer is only 5 years away". With every 5 year period that has gone by, the line continues, "we're only 5 years away". Just keep donating money especially if you do so out of emotion rather than intellect. When large numbers of well intentioned people line up at a 5k road race each year, they're running or walking a 5k, -not- racing for a cure. Of the proceeds raised, about 25 percent will go towards funding research that few people will read, let alone apply, and few of the people who read the information will be doctors that work with cancer patients.

Texas has a proposition 15 on the ballot for November voting. It provides $3 billion to create a "Cancer Prevention & Research Institute". If we spent $3 - $30 implementing what we already know, we could save many millions of lives. Far more lives than the $3 billion will, given what we already know will happen with that research.

There is a financial dis-incentive for a claim of having much knowledge about this disease. If a highly trusted famous TV personality were to step forward on television today and say that we humans actually know quite a bit about this disease, research funding would begin to dry-up. We'd see fewer pink ribbons, fewer yellow wristbands, less chemotherapy and radiation [a long with thousands of people related to these treatments being out of work] fewer cancer patients with nausea and no hair, and several thousand researchers [especially those at academic institutions] out of work in their "publish or perish" world.

Advocating for more blind funding of cancer research without any responsibility or accountability for any of the information it produces to even be read, let alone applied......is to advocate [by default] for more Americans dying needlessly in ignorance while wearing their pink ribbon and/or yellow wristband.

Some of what we already know about cancer.......ETG Competent Self-Care.....Reversing Cancer

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[context of the research quote shown below: chronic stress related physiological issues can increase DNA damage and decrease DNA repair, leading to tumor formation, survival, and possible spread]

"Although the last decades have provided ample evidence for deleterious effects of stress on immunity and on cancer development and suggested mediating mechanisms, no psycho-neuro-immunology related intervention has become a standard of care in conventional cancer treatment."

the quote is from the research journal ---- Brain, Behavior, and Immunity [volume 21 #7, October 2007....page 881 - 887]....article title --- "Stress, NK cells, and cancer: Still a promissory note" by Shamgar Ben-Eliyahua, et al

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[October 22, 2007] ----- ETG Press & Media Communication

A comment about the Marion Jones situation. For whatever reason, historically, especially when it comes to stories about track & field athletes and drug use, the reporting tends to be somewhat loose with facts and details that generally don't tend to be very complicated. One example is that lying about drug use is -not- a crime. Lying to Federal investigators during a criminal investigation is a crime. Marion Jones lied to Federal Investigators who were conducting a criminal investigation. That was the crime.

Like a number of athletes related to the Balco drug story, she was reportedly told that what she was taking was fish oil. Some of these athletes reportedly stopped taking it after they learned what it was. Some did not. And some apparently re-started taking it after stopping [ie. Kelly White].

Regardless of what sport one is talking about, 99.999 percent of elite athletes are -not- physiologists [let alone good ones], and thus they have little knowledge of human physiology. Just because an athlete takes a drug with the sole intent of enhancing performance, does not magically turn that drug into a "performance enhancing drug". Contrary to the image created, the drug referred to as "the clear" was not some new, unknown steroid. Its physiological effects in the human body had been studied and published in research journals. "The Clear" rather clearly was not then [1999 - 2002], is not now, and will never be a "performance enhancing drug", regardless of who takes it for what reason. There is no mechanism of performance enhancement that it addresses. If anything it has performance retarding effects given that it can address those mechanisms.

The standard media cliché, that...."the chemists are one step ahead of the drug testers"....is incorrect. In the eyes of the media, anybody with a white lab coat [even one purchased from a Halloween costume store] gets labeled as an "expert". "The chemists" are reasonably incompetent opportunists taking advantage of either the naivete or ignorance of athletes, coaches, and lay media. The drug testers are enmeshed in the dysfunction of pseudo-science and outright corruption, incapable of following the procedures of even a first-grader's chemistry set from Toys"R"Us.

The very wise words of the NFL Players Association executive director, Gene Upshaw....."I have no confidence in WADA or their kits. I have my doubts about WADA and their history".

Drug use and drug testing are a sham and a scam.

Marion Jones has subsequently acknowledged using a drug or drugs from 1999 to 2002. One can logically conclude that she [her coach more likely] had hoped to go from where she was before drug use, to running 100's well below 10.6 or 10.5 with drug use. Obviously with drug use, that didn't happen since there exist on this planet, no magic pills or potions. Thus, looking at her performances from a "drug use and drug testing are a sham and a scam" point of view.........

Marion Jones, prior to drug use ------- 100 meters......10.71, 10.72 [twice], 10.75, 10.76, 10.79 [10.65 at about 7000 feet altitude].

Marion Jones during drug use ------- 100 meter........continued 10.7's, ended with 10.8's

Marion Jones after drug use ------- 100 meters........10.9's

Since the time period 1999 - 2002 research on the effects of the fats in fish oil has been increased exponentially. In contrast to "the clear", fish oil is in fact, performance enhancing. It doesn't matter whether the subject matter is sport performance, general health and fitness, academic performance, or medical health. It is performance enhancing. All the athletes who did intentionally use "the clear" likely would have been far better off performance wise, having actually used fish oil. In sports and events [ie. sprinting] where the brain and nervous system are highly activated, essential fatty acids are performance enhancing.

Drug use and drug testing are a sham and a scam. Please see ETG Training Packet, section 8 The Problem With Drug Use & Drug Testing

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[September 26, 2007] ----- ETG Press & Media Communication

The ETG would like to express disgust with the ruling against Floyd Landis by the U.S.Anti-doping Agency [USADA]. We find it likely that the negative outcome of his arbitration was predetermined, though the facts in his case were clearly in his favor. Such is the state of drug testing in sport [please see section 8 of the ETG Training Packet, titled "The Problem With Drug Use & Drug Testing" ---- http://www.theetgtrackclub.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=packets.

The ruling in his case provides further support for our mantra......."drug use and drug testing are a sham and a scam".

We do however, applaud one of the 3 Arbiters, Christopher Campbell. As he did in the Tyler Hamilton case, he quite rightly chose to do the right thing, and say that which should be said by any honest person involved with the subject matter of drug testing.

[quoting Campbell from the last sentence of his dissent] "WADA should be writing rules that mandate the highest scientific standards rather than writing rules for a race to the bottom of scientific reliability so convictions can be easily obtained, as this case demonstrates. Given the plethora of laboratory errors in this case, there was certainly no reliable scientific evidence introduced to find that Mr. Landis committed a doping offense."

quoting further....."It was disclosed during the hearing that the Laboratory Directors are bound by an Ethics Code Of Conduct that has been interpreted to preclude them from disclosing the errors of one of their fellow laboratories on behalf of an athlete. In other words, if a Laboratory Director knew that another laboratory had made an error and that error was causing an innocent athlete to be convicted of a doping offense, they could not testify on behalf of the athlete and disclose the error."

Drug testing in sport has been a sick joke! That status continues. Anyone interested in looking into this phenomena need only follow the money.

The dissent in the arbitration [http://www.usada.org/files/active/arbitration_rulings/LandisFinalDissent.pdf]

One can simply note the words used in the table of contents.

--- "The Document Package Supplied In Support of an Adverse Analytical Finding Does Not Comport with Known Science"

--- "The Evidence Demonstrate without question that Mr. Landis Did Not Engage in a Pattern or Practice of Doping Using Testosterone."

Please see ETG Training Packet, section 8 The Problem With Drug Use & Drug Testing

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[April 19, 2007] ----- ETG Press & Media Communication

Since the foundation and basic principles of the ETG training program are derived from function of the human brain, the comments below are made from that context. The comments are about recent events at Virginia Tech University.

Brain cell over-work, over-whelm.....Chronic stress and other chronic issue induced brain cell loss;

--- in the hippocampus area [memory] = Alzheimers

--- in the motor area [movement] = Parkinsons, ALS [Lou Gerigs disease]

--- in the limbic area [thought and/or behavior control] = Schizophrenia, loss of inhibition control

Our country does not do well with so-called "mental illness". Anti- psychotic medications do not replace or restore damaged or destroyed brain cells.

A person with a broken leg will walk strange. A person with brain cell loss will act strange. Both are physical, not mental maladies, the sypmtoms of which we can see or experience. When a person loses enough brain cells in the limbic area they are likely to lose the ability to control their thoughts and the ability to inhibit negative or destructive actions those thoughts may produce. In short, they are likely to have "crazy" thoughts, that cause them to say "crazy" things, that cause them to engage in "crazy" behaviors.

The less violent among them will simply do foolish, though relatively harmless things. The more violent among them will set fires, and/or shoot people at their college.

--- Psychologists generally do not follow brain physiology research. Thus they are working on information that is 2 to 4 decades old and know none of this.

--- Psychiatrists generally follow a medical model of medicate, medicate, medicate. Thus, people either refuse treatment or eventually stop the medication due to so-called "side-effects", which are usually the main effect.

--- Doctors generally do not follow any reaearch on any subject in their area of so-called "expertise", which unfortunately is not a matter of opinion but one of a research study on the subject, published in a medical journal.

Again....our country does not do well with so-called "mental illness". It could be quite some time before that changes. "Crazy" people do not suffer from brain cell over-work, overwhelm. That "theory", though proven, is considered to be "crazy", by the majority of the so-called, "professional help" people in the field.

[please see "Brain Cell Over-work, Over-whelm " which is section 20 of the ETG Training To Live Training For Life Project packet, located on this website.]

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[March 28, 2007] ----- ETG Press & Media Communication

ETG Position statements on the cancer research "industry" in the United States

The Elizabeth Edwards situation....

[For more information on the subject of cancer please see ETG Competent Self-Care.....Reversing Cancer of the ETG Training To Live Training For LIfe Project located on this website...see menu to your left]

Several fail safes that kill cancer cells, and finally, your immune system, must all fail you before you can "get cancer". A brick in your hand does not fall upward, towards the sky when you drop it. The physics of this world doesn't allow that to happen. Likewise, the physiology of human cells does not allow cancer cells to thrive and spread without multiple things having been made to not work normally.

In the context of the cancer epidemic currently in the United States, the combination of living stress as a life style along side low/no exercise is the standard way that Americans have their several fail safes that kill cancer cells, and finally, have their immune systems all fail them allowing cancer cells to thrive and spread.

Elizabeth Edwards was obese 3 years ago when she got her original cancer diagnosis. Statistically she is experiencing nothing more than what most obese Americans eventually exerience. Her cancer did --not-- "come back". Her original treatment of traditional medicine failed and was called a success. Americans pursue traditional medicine in these situations due to the hypnosis of social conditioning. Traditional medicine in the United States is not "the best health care system in the world". Traditional medicine does not cause one to reverse the living stress as a life style and low/no exercise, thus the process by which one gets the disease is not reversed. All the chemotherapy and radiation in the world cannot and will not compensate for that. Traditional medicine cannot, will not and does not reverse the disease process, which is why 70 - 90% of patients in the Elizabeth Edwards situation die.

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The Tony Snow situation...

In 2005, FOXNEWS anchor Tony Snow was diagnosed with colon cancer. Wisely, he left his television shows and the stress they come with and limited himself to radio.

Unfortunately he went down the Traditional Medicine path, after which he decided that he had "beat the cancer". Unwisely, last April he accepted a job as White House Press Secretary, arguably among -the- most stressful jobs on the planet earth when the boss has been targeted for impeachment.

Unfortunately last week some scans found cancer cells growing in his abdominal area. This morning he had surgery to remove those cells where they had quite predictably spread after "he beat cancer" via Traditional Medicine. Further, his surgeon discovered also that the cancer cells had spread to his liver. Like Elizabeth Edwards, this is another highly public demonstration that Traditional Medicine will be your undoing should you blindly place your faith in it as most Americans have been socially conditioned to do since childhood. There may be a problem with a "health care system" if a track coach can accurately predict the course of a disease months in advance, but the patient's highly paid physicians fail to do so as well. Cancer research in the United States is an industry, and as such is a racket. Nearly half of its participants are likely guilty of rackettering. From racing for a cure to living strong with yellow wrist bands, emotion rather than intellect rules the day. Few stop and ask the obvious question....."the multiple -billions- of dollars that have already been spent on cancer research over the past 40 years, what are doctors doing with the information those studies produced?".

To keep the funding pipeline open, every year for the past 40 years the public has been told by researchers and physicians that cures are just 5 more years away. Every year, several hundred studies are published providing information that few read and fewer apply. In the 1920's and 30's in Chicago this type of thing would be called racketering. Its participants would be referred to as members of organized crime.

Unlike Israel and some European countries, that's not considered to be medical mal-practice in the United States. Since the majority do it, that sets the legal norm for the standard of care. Providing less than the standard of care is the only thing considered to be mal-practice.

"...most doctors don't read or understand medical research......"---[Richard Smith editor, British Medical Journal] Do patients need to read research? [British Medical Journal......Volume 326 #14......June]

"All the good things.....they don't teach us in medical school, because the drug companies pay for our education." ---[John Sessions M.D.]

Most Americans die in relatively painful, medically expensive, and emotionally costly ways [Marshall Burt]

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[March 20, 2007] ----- ETG Press & Media Communication

The ETG would like to offer its strong support for the reinstatement of elite cyclists Tyler Hamilton, and Floyd Landis . Those that have read Section 8 of the ETG Training Packet The Problem With Drug Use & Drug Testing are aware of our belief about the shennanigans often engaged in by drug testers. These activities cause harm to the reputations and livelyhood of innoncent athletes.

The documented evidence of these two cyclists clearly indicate wrongful accusation. Any objective person can discern this for themselves in both cases. Drug use and drug testing are a sham and a scam. The cases of these two cyclists once again prove the drug testing "scam" point.

ETG Communications dated 10/5/2006