I think, according to the article, that its only for players within 12 months of playing at AFL level.
Iâm lost - who are we talking about? Played for us, or just friends with someone who plays with us?
A pick 4 of ours best friend pre draft.
And they go fishing. 
or pick 5âŚ.
THAT guy?
I was expecting a deep dark secret. I thought it was no surprise to anyone who had eyes that heâd gotten on the gear after getting out of the AFL.
Sorry my bad. We had pick 4 that got pushed back with Callum Mills bid.
Initials? 
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sit tight
Thatâs how the geniuses at SIA knew where they should take their test kits.
Desperation
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Like âstrands in the cableâ so were the days of their lives.
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Turned off after the 6 minute mark when they said Essendon took illegal substances.
Recent episode of sports bizarre doesnât mention Essendon, but does outline some of the corruption within WADA from 2011-2016.
Seems like there would have been people in WADA who needed to be seen to be âdoing somethingâ during that time period.
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Harcourt inducted into the hall of fame
Another one of the buffoons
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Worth the watch.
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This is from July, but Iâve just seen it nowâŚNotre Dame Athletics in the US announcing a sponsorship from a skincare company who spruik, in the announcement, their innovative use of thymosin beta-4 in their sunscreen products.
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For regular readers, there is nothing new in this article except for the fact that interest in Tb4 is growing despite no clinical trials.
The Economist
Can peptides give you superpowers?
The âWolverine stackâ is supposed to boost healing and recovery
Illustration: Cristina Spanò
Nov 7th 2025
Readers might assume that the âWolverine stackâ refers to the accumulated riches of Hugh Jackman, an actor who has played the Marvel Comics superhero in numerous films. The connection with Mr Jackmanâs alter ego is, however, more subtle. Wolverine is known for his powers of regeneration. The stack in question is a stack of chemicalsâspecifically a pair of substances called BPC-157 and TB-500, which are alleged to confer similar benefits on mere mortals.
Both are popular among athletes seeking rapid recovery from bone fractures and torn ligaments. But they are spreading more widely. A study of internet forums discussing BPC-157, TB-500 and some related chemicals, published last year, highlighted their use to promote âanti-ageingâ and general well-being, particularly among older men.
Chemically, BPC-157 and TB-500 are peptidesâchains of amino acids too short to count as full-fledged proteins. The first is a fragment of a stomach protein. The second of thymosin beta-4, a protein found in most body cells. As is true of many natural peptides, these compounds act as signalling molecules. Animal experiments also demonstrate that both BPC-157 and thymosin beta-4 have multiple injury-ameliorating effects (very little work has been done on the TB-500 fragment itself). These include promoting wound healing and blood-vessel formation, and reducing inflammation. Such experiments have also failed to flag up worrying side-effects.
But human studies are scarce. A recent review found only three small ones for BPC-157 (one of which suggested possible relief for chronic knee pain) and, though thymosin beta-4 is the subject of promising trials for recovery from heart-attack-induced tissue damage and the treatment of corneal problems, TB-500 itself is not. âInformalâ users usually administer the stack by injection, which brings risks of its own.
In the absence of trials, a âfolk pharmacologyâ has developed. Forum users swap tips, warn of possible side-effects, excoriate naive expectations of miraculous improvements by credulous newcomers and even run informal product-testing laboratories to sort, from the range of commercial offerings available, the wheat from the chaff.
All this is a result of the compoundsâ ambiguous legal status. No jurisdiction has approved their use as medicines, but few ban their sale. They can therefore be marketed as âexperimental chemicalsâ, so long as no medical claims are made. Professional sports bodies, including the World Anti Doping Agency, do ban them. But that does not prevent their use by enthusiastic amateurs.
The result is a messâand a lost opportunity. Peptides are an important class of drugs. Almost 100 are approved as medicines, including insulin, human growth hormone and GLP-1 (the active principle of Wegovy, a weight-loss drug, and Ozempic, a treatment for type-2 diabetes). In a well-ordered world, the Wolverine stackâs components would be given a chance either to join this list, or to be rejected from it once and for all.
But that would mean clinical trials on people. Those would be expensive, time-consuming and difficult for drug companies to justify, since it would be hard to patent a product based on molecules so clearly in the public domain. The result, even with the efforts of forum users, is an unregulated market in which the purity and strength of what is on offer cannot be guaranteed, with all the risks which that entails. At the moment, then, caveat very much emptor.â
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Written by someone without asking for insights from anyone who knows about protecting IP.
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