In this week’s edition of The Morning Dose:

🏆 The Enhanced Games

🧠 8 Best Racetams and Nootropics

💊 Oral Anabolic Steroids for Cutting & Bulking

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🏆 The Enhanced Games: What It Is and Why It Matters

The Enhanced Games kicks off in Las Vegas over Memorial Day weekend 2026, and it’s built on a simple pitch: no drug testing, and if you break a world record, you walk away with a $1 million bonus on top of a $500,000 prize per event.

Sprinters Fred Kerley and Ben Proud have already gone public about their use of testosterone, BPC-157, CJC-1295, ipamorelin, and thymosin — a level of openness that would end most athletic careers anywhere else. Behind it all is Tony Huge, whose decade of educating lifters on enhancement protocols got him banned from nearly every mainstream platform before this event turned his following into a movement.

What’s Covered:

🎟️ What the Enhanced Games Actually Is
There’s no drug testing at any point in competition — athletes disclose what they’re using instead of hiding it. Prize money runs $500,000 per event, with an extra $1 million bonus for anyone who breaks an existing world record.

💉 The Protocols Athletes Are Using
Public disclosures point to testosterone for baseline hormone support, BPC-157 and CJC-1295 for recovery, ipamorelin for growth hormone release, and thymosin for immune and healing support — a stack built around recovery as much as raw output.

🔥 Tony Huge and the Community Behind It
Tony Huge spent roughly a decade openly discussing enhancement protocols online, getting banned from nearly every mainstream platform along the way. That following didn’t disappear — it became the built-in fanbase that turned the Enhanced Games from a longshot idea into a funded, televised event.

Want the full rundown on the prize money, the protocols, and how Tony Huge built this into a movement?

👉 Read the full guide on Muscle and Brawn

🧠 8 Best Racetams and Nootropics: What They Do, How They Differ, and Which One Fits Your Goals

The nootropic space has a terminology problem. Everything gets called a “cognitive enhancer.” Every compound is described as improving memory, focus, and mental clarity — until the claims blur together and it becomes genuinely difficult to know what separates one from another, or whether any of them are worth your time.

The honest answer is that it depends entirely on what you’re actually trying to accomplish — and the compounds in this category are not interchangeable. Piracetam and Dihexa both get called nootropics. They work through completely different mechanisms, at doses separated by three orders of magnitude, with evidence bases that don’t remotely compare.

What’s Covered:

📚 Piracetam: The One You Should Start With
Synthesized in 1964, piracetam is still the compound most serious nootropic users come back to — the most studied racetam, with the broadest safety record. It produces no immediate effect; benefits emerge over weeks of consistent use, which is why so many first-time users dismiss it too early.

🎯 Pramiracetam: The Most Targeted Memory Compound
Developed in the late 1970s for age-associated memory impairment, pramiracetam is roughly 8 to 30 times more potent than piracetam per milligram — but the real difference is specificity. Where most racetams improve cognition broadly, pramiracetam’s effect concentrates on long-term memory formation and recall.

⚖️ Fasoracetam: For the Anxiety Side of the Equation
Most racetam users eventually hit one of two walls: they plateau and stop feeling any effect, or the sharper cognitive state comes with anxiety or mental overactivation. Fasoracetam addresses both — it boosts GABA-B receptor sensitivity without sedation, and research shows it can partially restore effectiveness in users who’ve built up tolerance to racetams generally.

Curious which of these eight compounds actually fits what you’re trying to accomplish?

👉 Read the full guide on Muscle and Brawn

💊 Are Oral Anabolic Steroids Effective for Cutting and Bulking?

Oral anabolic steroids like methandrostenolone, oxandrolone, oxymetholone, and stanozolol are some of the most talked-about compounds in bodybuilding, but they aren’t interchangeable — each one is suited to a different goal, and some carry tradeoffs serious enough to change whether they’re worth using at all.

This guide breaks down which compounds actually work for bulking versus cutting, what the safety tradeoffs look like in practice, and where the clinical research does and doesn’t back up what lifters report.

What’s Covered:

💪 Compounds Built for Bulking
Methandrostenolone and oxymetholone are the go-to choices for adding size, driving significant water retention and strength gains fast. Both are aromatizing compounds, so bloating and estrogen-related side effects are common tradeoffs for the rapid mass they produce.

✂️ Compounds Built for Cutting
Oxandrolone and stanozolol are favored for cutting because they add strength and a harder, drier look without the water retention — stanozolol in particular is known for stripping subcutaneous fat while preserving muscle during a calorie deficit.

⚠️ The Safety Tradeoffs
All four compounds are C17-alpha alkylated, meaning they’re hepatotoxic and put real strain on the liver with extended use. They also tank HDL cholesterol, raise LDL, and suppress natural testosterone production — and because most of the human research on these compounds is decades old and clinical-only, real-world dosing protocols are mostly guesswork.

Wondering which compounds actually fit your goal, and where the real risks are?

👉 Read the full guide on Muscle and Brawn