Getting busted with test levels that high cannot happen any other way than straight injecting synthetic testosterone. Overeem tested as someone running almost a gram a week.
Exactly. It's not as if his ratio was borderline like Lamont Peterson, for example, (who admitted he was injecting synthetic testosterone), whose testosterone ratio was just under Nevada's allowed 6:1 ratio, his was 3.77 to 1 and the only reason he was caught was because VADA used a carbon isotope ratio test which can detect synthetic testosterone, otherwise he would have never of been caught.
Reems ratio was
14:1. I can't stress this enough. There is no way someone can accidentally have levels that high! It's not humanly possible.
Side note Sonnen's ratio was even higher 16.9:1!
It seems the easy excuse here is to say you have a condition such as hypogonadism and you require TRT treatment. Any quack doctor can write this off, just like Sonnen and Peterson had done and I'm sure many other fighters. Keith Kizer has stated before there are fighters licensed in Nevada that legally have medical clearance for TRT treatment, so there is no telling how many guys get away with this.