LMAO!!!
Vinegar cleans you out for a drug test!? HAHAHAHAHAH!
Okay... take a step back here for a second.... take a nice step back here and look at the big picture surrounding how this 'vinegar theory' came about:
You were TOLD by a bodybuilder that consuming vinegar (and i'm assuming this is in excess amounts) will 'cleanse the body of steroids' so that it will not be detected in blood tests. You were not given ANY references, facts, or resources to back up these claims. You just listened to the guy, took what he said as gospel with no questions asked. And without any rienforcement of this 'theory' through studies, references, or hard resources, you decided to then just go for it and put this competition on the line. Then you went off and did this, apparently passed the drug test for said competition, and so you then therefore attribute the this vinegar technique to the fact that you came clean on this test?
I'm sorry, but as a man of science and therefore, EVIDENCE, I must be very frank here: This is the biggest load of pseudoscientific bullshit I have ever heard in regards to this subject. And i've heard some really off the wall things in my time. This whole concept is loaded with pseudoscience, meathead bro talk, parroting, blind belief without questioning, conjecture, and not even anecdotal evidence!!
Here is a list of the following conflicting variables and questions that crumble this whole 'vinegar theory' down to the ground:
- Without any knowledge of how the body processes drugs, ESPECIALLY HORMONAL DRUGS, you assume that vinegar does what this bodybuilder told you it does? Do you realize that in drug tests, they test for the METABOLITES of said hormones and not the hormones themselves? And as deep as my knowledge in biochemistry and human biology goes, vinegar does not posess any properties what so ever that would speed up the half life of a hormonal substance in the body, nor would it reduce the amount of time a hormonal metabolite remains in the system. Not to mention, there is no evidence that vinegar even has any relation to these processes at all!
- You didn't even state what anabolic steroids you ran prior to the competition.
- You claim you came clean on the drug test for this competition. Do you even know what you were tested for? Unless you know SPECIFICALLY what the laboratory assay is and what hormones and substances are included in the panel, this whole vinegar claim is a load of bullshinola. They may not have even tested for metabolites of whatever AAS you were using beforehand - you likely would have come up clean without the use of vinegar! But you have no idea. You're running blind here. It is possible they were only testing for a handful of substances, of which they may not have even been AAS... they could have ONLY been testing for sympathomimetic amines for all you know.
I'm just shaking my head at all of this... I honestly can't believe at how open people are to just blindly accepting anything as truth. Question everything you read, hear, and especially what someone else tells you! Ask for references, documentation, or hard evidence that describes the validity of a particular practice or theory that someone is trying to sell you. And "well it worked for me, and has worked for many many years" doesn't count!
There are SO many different variables (as i've outlined above) in these self-tried and self-tested methods that you can't possibly be able to conclusively say "yeah I took vinegar and passed a drug test clean, therefore the vinegar was the reason I came clean in the drug test!". You took vinegar, and you passed the drug test... so therefore, the vinegar was the reason you passed the test? Oh my god.... This is a fallacy in logic, and there is an actual name for it. It is called 'Post hoc, ergo propter hoc'. It is a Latin phrase for "after this, therefore, because of this." The term refers to a rhetorical fallacy that because two events occurred in succession, the former event caused the latter event. In addressing a post hoc, ergo propter hoc argument, it is important to recognise that correlation does not equal causation. Magical thinking is a form of post hoc, ergo propter hoc fallacy, in which superstitions are formed based on seeing patterns in a series of coincidences. For example, "these are my lucky trousers. Sometimes good things happen to me when I wear them". Do you see how stupid and rediculous this is? It sounds just as stupid as "I took vinegar before a drug test. I passed the test. So therefore, the vinegar is responsible for my passing the test". X happened before Y, therefore X caused Y? NOPE!
And this is why we have in-depth investigative techniques in science; things like double-blind placebo studies that actually work to eliminate the possibility of any fallacies like this so that we can understand the truth behind what EXACTLY we are trying to study/test/discover. Now, going back to the main topic quickly... I have heard all kinds of other similar/related things, such as the cranberry juice theory whereby if you drink cranberry concentrate and drink excessive amounts of it, you will be able to rid your body of any traces of RECREATIONAL drugs. I do know that there is some truth to this with certain drugs (THC metabolites). But these are other different types of substances we're talking about here! Hormonal substances such as anabolic steroids are a completely different ballgame from something like that. And neither vinegar, nor cranberry concentrate is going to lower your epitestosterone:testosterone ratio prior to a test if you were on a cycle that included supraphysiological amounts of testosterone. If the lab tests your epitest:test ratio and finds it out of whack, YOU'RE DONE.
I would not advise anyone here to consume vinegar in any amount in an attempt to pass a drug test. If the test is a spot-on direct panel assay of specific metabolites of a hormone you have recently used (within the detection time of the metabolites), they will find it like a bullseye and you WILL fail the test.
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