MPCC wishes to clarify the process of cortisol levels tests (complete document here). Tests are conducted in order to protect athlete’s health, and not in the frame of the antidoping fight. There are carried out in the wake of the numerous askings of all of the doctors belonging to MPCC’s teams members. Thus, since 2009, MPCC aims at banning the use of coirticoides during competitions. The approach of MPCC relies upon international scientific litterary and on the advices of endocrinologists experts, such as Jonathan Ownby, Martin Duclos, Yves Le Bouc, Michel Guinot, whose analysis are to find here and here.
