sports performance enhancements - WTF

I'm very confused. BTW, some would not be shocked by this admission. Anyhow, it's not clear to me why the line for banned sports performance enhancements has been drawn at the use of synthetics. The high profile cases we hear about are the doping charges by the various athletic governing bodies on some of their enhanced athletes caught by drug testing. But it seems to me that there's major inconsistency in what is being defined as artificial enhancement. Steroid use is currently a no - no for bulking up, but weight lifing and protein gorging is ok. In fact, the use of any of the high tech workout machines is encouraged. But is it natural to work the body on an electric powered stair master with every bodily function being monitored to millisecond percision by some digital computer gizmo. Oh, and guzzling a 9 egg white party mix is something everybody does for breakfast. EPO and blood doping are frowned on, but altitude training is encouraged. Same end result. WTF. Most event day stimulants are banned including the minute amounts found in over the counter niffle stoppers but downing a gallon of your favorite jo is right on. How about other unnatural enhancements like super glove stick for catching a wet football - that's real natural. How about body shaving for slipping through the water a little quicker - yup all that body fuzz is darn right unnatural and even more natural is the new shark skin swimwear. Carbohydrate loading before an endurance event - ok, all humanoids are guttons and willingly gorge on pizza when given a chance. So why are certain enhancers banned and others encouraged. Damn upright logic has no logic. We always find a way to do everything halfass. (Must be the same logic that says wacky weed is off limits but willingly subsidizes and promotes a product that kills 10's of thousands of addicts a year by a broad leaf plant called tobbaco.) BTW, it's just a matter of time before the self appointed regulators have to deal with genome tampering and custom mutations. Gotta believe it's already happening. Animal breeders have been doing this for generations. This will spin some heads into a deep regulation fog. Testosterone enhancement will seem like child's play.

For some reason my enhancement of choice, cold dark beer sipped in the comfort of my soft sofa, never got me to world class status.