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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist

But why was she taking it? To enhance performance

http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...ping-drug.html

Meldonium, which Sharapova knew by the name Mildronate, is a Latvian drug used in Russia and throughout Eastern Europe to treat heart problems like angina, myocardial infarction, and heart failure. The drug is not approved for clinical use by the Food and Drug Administration in the United States, where Sharapova has lived since 1994.


Sharapova told reporters that she started taking the drug a decade ago because “[she] had several health issues going on at the time.”


“I was getting sick very often, I had a deficiency in magnesium, I had irregular EKG results, and I had a family history of diabetes,” she said. While meldonium is primarily used to treat cardiac problems, one animal study has indicated that meldonium has anti-diabetic effects on the metabolism of rats