{"id":16844,"date":"2011-12-19T08:55:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T08:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/12\/ryan-braun-medication-not-steroids-to-blame-for-dirty-banned-substance-test\/"},"modified":"2011-12-19T08:55:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-19T08:55:00","slug":"ryan-braun-medication-not-steroids-to-blame-for-dirty-banned-substance-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/19\/ryan-braun-medication-not-steroids-to-blame-for-dirty-banned-substance-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Braun &#8212; Medication NOT Steroids to Blame for Dirty Banned Substance Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>NL MVP Ryan Braun<\/span> <span>Medication to Blame<\/span> <span>for Dirty Banned Substance Test<\/span><\/p>\n<div readability=\"38.596026490066\">\n<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ryan Braun\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/c6501216-ryan-braun-getty-ex.jpg\" \/><br \/>Ryan Braun<\/strong>&#8216;s positive test for banned substances was caused by medication he&#8217;s taking for a private medical issue &#8212; NOT performance enhancing drugs &#8230; this according to sources directly connected with <strong>Major League Baseball<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re told the reigning National League MVP is adamant he has not taken drugs or steroids of any kind.<\/p>\n<p>One source simply told us &#8230; &#8220;The medication contained banned substances resulting in the positive test.&#8221;\u00a0 We&#8217;re also told prior to taking the dirty test, Braun had always tested negative for banned substances.<\/p>\n<p>The nature of Braun&#8217;s medical ailment is unclear.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also unclear if the Milwaukee Brewers star knew the substances were in his medication before he took it &#8212; though it seems highly unlikely.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"continued\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>View the original here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2011\/12\/19\/ryan-braun-medication-baseball-steroids\/\" title=\"Ryan Braun -- Medication NOT Steroids to Blame for Dirty Banned Substance Test\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ryan Braun &#8212; Medication NOT Steroids to Blame for Dirty Banned Substance Test<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> NL MVP Ryan Braun Medication to Blame for Dirty Banned Substance Test Ryan Braun &#8216;s positive test for banned substances was caused by medication he&#8217;s taking for a private medical issue &#8212; NOT performance enhancing drugs &#8230; this according to sources directly connected with Major League Baseball . We&#8217;re told the reigning National League MVP is adamant he has not taken drugs or steroids of any kind<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ryan Braun - Medication NOT Steroids to Blame for Dirty Banned Substance Test - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/19\/ryan-braun-medication-not-steroids-to-blame-for-dirty-banned-substance-test\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Ryan Braun - Medication NOT Steroids to Blame for Dirty Banned Substance Test - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"NL MVP Ryan Braun Medication to Blame for Dirty Banned Substance Test Ryan Braun &#039;s positive test for banned substances was caused by medication he&#039;s taking for a private medical issue -- NOT performance enhancing drugs ... this according to sources directly connected with Major League Baseball . 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