Sports doctor Dmytro Babeliuk commented on the information from former journalist Igor Burbas, who reported that Mykhailo Mudryk could have received banned meldonium during an injection of stem cells in the Ukrainian national team.
Mykhailo Mudryk“Did a cow that ate meldonium poison Mudryk? I don’t want to comment on Burbas’s insider efforts, but I have a feeling that the cow saga will unfold in the media, so I would like to briefly comment.
Stem cells are a well-known and widespread procedure in Europe and the world, which started to be actively used long before Ukraine. The truth is, these stem cells are taken from the tissues of the patient themselves – fat, bone marrow, or blood – to avoid an immune rejection reaction from the blood of another patient. The idea of taking it from animals is not being discussed in the modern world at all, as it is dangerous and not proven, plus one’s own cells suffice.
I refuse to even think about the incredible scenario of a cow being infected with meldonium, from which cells were taken to inject Mudryk in the knee, because such preparations undergo at least some minimal purification, certification, and preparation before being administered.
Of course, any scenario cannot be excluded, but this version sounds too fantastic and with a lot of logical gaps,” Babeliuk wrote on his telegram channel.
