Word: ferritin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...burned-out case, thought many saddened observers. But Dr. Doug Clements, co-director of the University of British Columbia's Sports Medicine Clinic, thought otherwise. He called Salazar's coach, Bill Dellinger: Might Salazar be suffering from a physiological condition Clements termed nonanemic ferritin deficiency? A former college running teammate of Dellinger's, Clements has theorized that ferritin, an iron complex stored mainly in the bone marrow, is used or discharged by endurance runners faster than it is replaced. The consequences, says Clements, are that "a runner would fail to improve with training." Tests on Salazar showed...
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