Can't get to altitude? Study says if you inhale CO2 (which could kill you), you may get altitude effect

LetsRun.com wrote:

WARNING: DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME. IT COULD KILL YOU.

Challenge accepted.

Fixed your title for you. You mean CO, not CO2.

LR staff don't know the difference between CO and CO2. CO is a poison which binds to your hemoglobin and can't be released easily, it's comparable to cyanide (indeed these two are iso-electronic, for the chemistry experts), too much and you won't be able to breathe anymore.

CO2 is quite harmless in comparison.

I wonder if Salazar et al already know this?

CO and CO2 are more or less the same just like OH and H2O.

To get plenty of both, just run beside busy streets.

Just using my ? wrote:

I wonder if Salazar et al already know this?

This tells me yes.

Rather like the Russians using Xenon and Argon, no? Of course this is much more dangerous and expensive than simply using EPO.

So next time I run on my treadmill in the garage I'll just fire up my car first. Great idea.

vladimir gracovetsky wrote:

Rather like the Russians using Xenon and Argon, no? Of course this is much more dangerous and expensive than simply using EPO.

Who are you, one of the USADA idiots who thought noble gases were dangerous because another gas called hydrogen sulfide is dangerous?

The physiology of noble gas doping is no different from an altitude tent: it slightly restricts available oxygen. No toxicity or danger was ever demonstrated. The fact WADA banned it is among the most compelling proofs of their institutional anti-Russian agenda. If NOP were doing it too, you know it would be legal.

Total BS.

I get this stimulus all the time running on streets with lots of cars, and I am nowhere near a sub-2:09 marathon.

IF IT TAKES YOUR PR DOWN, THEN WORTH THE RISK.

BergLaufer wrote:

Just using my ? wrote:

I wonder if Salazar et al already know this?

This tells me yes.

https://therunningclub.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/galen-rupp-mask1.jpg

Wow, when did Allie Ostrander cut her hair?

Partridge wrote:

LR staff don't know the difference between CO and CO2. CO is a poison which binds to your hemoglobin and can't be released easily, it's comparable to cyanide (indeed these two are iso-electronic, for the chemistry experts), too much and you won't be able to breathe anymore.

CO2 is quite harmless in comparison.

It's shocking how dense the letsrun staff . They seem to be very clueless on many, many levels, (not to mention borderline illiterate).

well surely this is just the same as intermittent hypoxia using a rebreather??

Piano_Man87 wrote:

Total BS.

I get this stimulus all the time running on streets with lots of cars, and I am nowhere near a sub-2:09 marathon.

Running on city streets aint enough, even in China. You have to smoke 40 cigarettes a day to get the proper CO benefits.

AJ2000 wrote:

well surely this is just the same as intermittent hypoxia using a rebreather??

A rebreather does not involve carbon monoxide.

It has long been known that smokers have higher hemoglobin concentrations than non-smokers (when comparative fitness levels are controlled for).

Here is my question: did they get faster?