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nandrolone

British  
/ ˈnændrəˌləʊn /

noun

  1. an anabolic steroid present in the body in small amounts but also produced by metabolism of other steroids, sometimes taken as performance-enhancing drugs by athletes and bodybuilders

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Shelby Houlihan had argued at the time that something in the meat she consumed had led her to test positive for a steroid called nandrolone.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2025

Moore did provide evidence showing cattle are administered with nandrolone metabolites and boldenone in Colombia, which the tribunal described as "interesting and powerful".

From BBC • Dec. 4, 2024

Shelby Houlihan, the American record-holder in the 1,500, was suspended for four years last month after testing positive for nandrolone, an anabolic steroid.

From New York Times • Jul. 6, 2021

They were appealing on a technical matter that hasn’t really been in the news, which is that if it is meat contamination, as opposed to injected nandrolone, the testing procedure is different.

From Slate • Jun. 22, 2021

On the night before her test, she said, she ate a burrito from a Mexican food truck that served pig offal, a meat that World Anti-Doping Agency studies showed could contain nandrolone.

From Washington Post • Jun. 18, 2021