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it's a [cardiac] drug, not a supplement
This is the same false dichotomy which @hippy proposed earlier. If we limit the discussion to things which are administered orally, it becomes very hard to draw a reliable boundary line on the spectrum of effects and call that the division between food and drugs. We can't even agree on where the boundary lies between sick and well, and when we do we find that in some diseases we can move people across that boundary by changing which "food" they eat.
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My suggestion about the grey area - I mean, clearly melondonium is morally wrong, it's been wrong since any athlete started taking it - it's a cardiac drug, not a supplement like iron or bicarb or even creatine. But the thing is, it's only been prohibited since the start of the year. By the rules, the athletes weren't cheating until they popped the champagne corks at the start of the year, but they will have been getting the benefits over athletes who don't take angina drugs for ages.
So they were cheating, but not cheating. Now you take a couple of steps down from Melondonium, and look at whatever things athletes are taking there - no idea what they might be, but you know it'll be something. Wrong, not wrong? Not illegal, yet. But certainly, a grey area.