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Can Asthma Medicines Be Used as "Performance Enchancers?"

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Dara Torres has asthma, just like her father, says a story in the New York Times. But for years, she had been training and competing with coughing and difficulty breathing. When she finally started taking asthma medicine, "she realized how much, and how needlessly, she had been suffering."   B...
  1. asthma meds as a performance enhancer
    Helen
    Wednesday, August 20, 2008 at 07:38 AM

    Hi. Im a competitive female bodybuilder and find that volmax is an excellent drug to open the airways and has slightly anabolics effects, as it holds the glycogen on the muscle and will pulls on the fat as energy. Like salbutamol or clenbuterol. its now become unavailable here so thats a bummer. Ive also had increased strength and a definite oomph before workouts.

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    re: asthma meds as a performance enhancer
    Rob Abscando
    Tuesday, November 03, 2009 at 11:44 AM

    I agree. As a soccer player and a recreational endurance runner, Ive used albuterol left over from sickness related perscriptions to enhance performance. It works very well, and increases energy.

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