Puffer use

[Real player]

hey whats up bluelight
i found a puffer which was not prescribed to me. now when i was a kid i was said to have symptoms of asthma but nothing was ever done with it. i was just wondering if using this puffer would help my sports performance at all. its called symbicort and has budesonide/formoterol i was thinking maybe taking a couple puffs could possibly increase my breathing capabilities and hence help with my stamina. any help would be greatly appreciated

 

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[TakeItAll]

The short answer is no.

I promote this product to doctors so if you want the long answer read on.
That product has two drugs in it. One reduces inflammation and mucous production in your lungs and the other relaxes the muscles in your lungs.

However if you don't have asthma you won't have any inflammation on constriction of your muscles.

Heaps of elite athletes get themselves diagnosed as being asthmatic under the false belief the drugs will improve their performance. This is for two reasons. Another drug in the same class as formoterol that is in your puffer had some studies done in animals that resulted in the animals putting on a lot of lean muscle mass. So they did tests in humans thinking they had the next anabolic steroid but nothing happened in humans. So there is no gain from that perspective. But lots of people come across the original animal study and think they've found the new athletic edge.

Lots of athletes and regular people who like exercising think that when they run short of breath doing exercise that the problem is with their lungs. You are actually born with more lung tissue than you actually need. (You naturally lose this as you get older and get exposed to things like cigarette smokes etc). The problem or bottleneck is actually your ability to transfer the oxygen from your lungs into your pulmonary vein. The only way to improve this for regular people is exercise. There was a small study done once in athletic patients that showed bronchodilators like the one you found resulted in a 2% drop in athletic performance.

 

[TheAppleCore]

Somewhat unrelated rant:

The entire idea of using any sort of drug to boost athletic performance just seems ludicrous to me. The point of athletic activity is to stay healthy. The desire to engage in physical sports was the evolutionary answer to the health drawbacks of sedentary life. That purpose is entirely defeated if you start taking drugs.

Maybe I'm wrong. If so, show me a performance-enhancing drug that, in combination with athletic activity, has been proven to be a healthier alternative to natural exercise.

 

[TakeItAll]

Drugs are just specialised foods though. We just think about them as drugs because they are used in specific doses and have a powerful effect.

So a healthy diet improves performance, some supplements improve performance and some drugs improve performance.

So where do you draw the line?