Comments on: Athletes and Their DNA http://www.eyeondna.com/2007/06/04/athletes-and-their-dna/ How will it change your life? Tue, 07 Oct 2008 03:13:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Eye on DNA Headlines for 5 October 2007 http://www.eyeondna.com/2007/06/04/athletes-and-their-dna/#comment-11462 Eye on DNA Headlines for 5 October 2007 Fri, 05 Oct 2007 20:16:10 +0000 http://www.eyeondna.com/2007/06/04/athletes-and-their-dna/#comment-11462 [...] Dr. Barry Star at the QUEST Community Science Blog looks at athletes and gene doping. Here’s my look at the situation - Athletes and Their DNA. [...] [...] Dr. Barry Star at the QUEST Community Science Blog looks at athletes and gene doping. Here’s my look at the situation - Athletes and Their DNA. [...]

]]> By: laura http://www.eyeondna.com/2007/06/04/athletes-and-their-dna/#comment-618 laura Wed, 06 Jun 2007 13:31:24 +0000 http://www.eyeondna.com/2007/06/04/athletes-and-their-dna/#comment-618 I'll have to check this show out. I’ll have to check this show out.

]]> By: Hsien http://www.eyeondna.com/2007/06/04/athletes-and-their-dna/#comment-617 Hsien Wed, 06 Jun 2007 11:52:22 +0000 http://www.eyeondna.com/2007/06/04/athletes-and-their-dna/#comment-617 Have you been watching Heroes? There's a character who is able to paint the future only if he's high.... Have you been watching Heroes? There’s a character who is able to paint the future only if he’s high….

]]> By: laura http://www.eyeondna.com/2007/06/04/athletes-and-their-dna/#comment-616 laura Wed, 06 Jun 2007 11:33:31 +0000 http://www.eyeondna.com/2007/06/04/athletes-and-their-dna/#comment-616 I found an interview from Rolling Stone with John Lennon. He is asked whether LSD has affected his conception of music. His response: It was only another mirror. It wasn't a miracle. It was more of a visual thing and a therapy, looking at yourself a bit. It did all that. You know, I don't quite remember. But it didn't write the music. I write the music in the circumstances in which I'm in, whether it's on acid or in the water Whether the drugs wrote the music or not, it gave him another angle to write from. One that would probably never have been discovered had he had not been taking LSD. The drug was an "enhancement", and while I am not disputing the fact that Lennon was a genius. Would he have still been regarded as much of one, if LSD or any other drug had not entered the picture. Or would The Beatles have produced songs like "Love Me Do" for their whole existence as a band. Mental illness is an interesting issue. I would be interested to study the differences of an artist (who suffers from mental illness) and creates when they have been treated with meds, and when they haven't been treated. I bet there is a big difference. And would these artists consider what they are creating as "art", when meds are a factor. I found an interview from Rolling Stone with John Lennon. He is asked whether LSD has affected his conception of music.

His response:

It was only another mirror. It wasn’t a miracle. It was more of a visual thing and a therapy, looking at yourself a bit. It did all that. You know, I don’t quite remember. But it didn’t write the music. I write the music in the circumstances in which I’m in, whether it’s on acid or in the water

Whether the drugs wrote the music or not, it gave him another angle to write from. One that would probably never have been discovered had he had not been taking LSD.

The drug was an “enhancement”, and while I am not disputing the fact that Lennon was a genius. Would he have still been regarded as much of one, if LSD or any other drug had not entered the picture. Or would The Beatles have produced songs like “Love Me Do” for their whole existence as a band.

Mental illness is an interesting issue. I would be interested to study the differences of an artist (who suffers from mental illness) and creates when they have been treated with meds, and when they haven’t been treated. I bet there is a big difference. And would these artists consider what they are creating as “art”, when meds are a factor.

]]> By: Hsien http://www.eyeondna.com/2007/06/04/athletes-and-their-dna/#comment-615 Hsien Wed, 06 Jun 2007 11:12:23 +0000 http://www.eyeondna.com/2007/06/04/athletes-and-their-dna/#comment-615 Well, I don't know if I'd go that far, Laura. What about all those artists with mental illness? Should they forego treatment just to say they've created "real" art? Art is subjective regardless of the creator's mental or physical state. Well, I don’t know if I’d go that far, Laura. What about all those artists with mental illness? Should they forego treatment just to say they’ve created “real” art? Art is subjective regardless of the creator’s mental or physical state.

]]> By: Hsien http://www.eyeondna.com/2007/06/04/athletes-and-their-dna/#comment-614 Hsien Wed, 06 Jun 2007 11:10:23 +0000 http://www.eyeondna.com/2007/06/04/athletes-and-their-dna/#comment-614 LOL Not everybody knows what you're referring to, Steve. Here's an excerpt from Kary Mullis's book about <a href="http://www.csp.org/chrestomathy/dancing_naked.html">his "experiment" with LSD</a>. LOL Not everybody knows what you’re referring to, Steve. Here’s an excerpt from Kary Mullis’s book about his “experiment” with LSD.

]]> By: What gives you a burst of energy? http://www.eyeondna.com/2007/06/04/athletes-and-their-dna/#comment-607 What gives you a burst of energy? Wed, 06 Jun 2007 08:47:06 +0000 http://www.eyeondna.com/2007/06/04/athletes-and-their-dna/#comment-607 [...] fact is, Hsien lured me into an  interesting discussion about performance enhancing drugs, and this was solely responsible for my surge of energy.   The discussion happened in the early [...] [...] fact is, Hsien lured me into an  interesting discussion about performance enhancing drugs, and this was solely responsible for my surge of energy.   The discussion happened in the early [...]

]]> By: Steven Murphy MD http://www.eyeondna.com/2007/06/04/athletes-and-their-dna/#comment-592 Steven Murphy MD Tue, 05 Jun 2007 18:11:18 +0000 http://www.eyeondna.com/2007/06/04/athletes-and-their-dna/#comment-592 Tell that to Kary Mullis ;) Does that make PCR fake? -Steve www.thegenesherpa.blogspot.com Tell that to Kary Mullis ;) Does that make PCR fake?
-Steve
http://www.thegenesherpa.blogspot.com

]]> By: laura http://www.eyeondna.com/2007/06/04/athletes-and-their-dna/#comment-586 laura Tue, 05 Jun 2007 13:39:32 +0000 http://www.eyeondna.com/2007/06/04/athletes-and-their-dna/#comment-586 OK one last thing. If you need to take something (beta blocker, steroid , whatever) to enhance your "art". Your "art" is fake! OK one last thing.

If you need to take something (beta blocker, steroid , whatever) to enhance your “art”.

Your “art” is fake!

]]> By: Hsien http://www.eyeondna.com/2007/06/04/athletes-and-their-dna/#comment-585 Hsien Tue, 05 Jun 2007 12:38:36 +0000 http://www.eyeondna.com/2007/06/04/athletes-and-their-dna/#comment-585 You go, girl! I suffered from a bit of performance anxiety when I was playing piano and violin competitively years ago. But I think the cause of my anxiety was lack of practice. :P I do hope musicians who are offered beta blockers are also given other ways of dealing with their anxiety. You go, girl!

I suffered from a bit of performance anxiety when I was playing piano and violin competitively years ago. But I think the cause of my anxiety was lack of practice. :P I do hope musicians who are offered beta blockers are also given other ways of dealing with their anxiety.

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