Dara Torres is featured on E-60 ESPN 2 tonight at 6PM EDST.
The program is geared toward her remarkable goal and chances to swim in the Olympics this summer at 41---
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I get asthma from seasonal allergies and used a salbutamol inhaler from March to June and September through November. I've never noticed any stimulent effect either, and I'm don't think they'd open your tubes any wider than they'd naturally go. I certainly don't experience any dramatic improvement.
Corticosteroid inhalers might give a mild improvement from causing a faster recovery from hard efforts, but taking them just before a race probably wouldn't make any difference in the race itself. Over the counter epinephrine inhalers are a different story - you can get seriously hyper on them.
I get asthma from seasonal allergies and used a salbutamol inhaler from March to June and September through November. I've never noticed any stimulent effect either, and I'm don't think they'd open your tubes any wider than they'd naturally go. I certainly don't experience any dramatic improvement.
Corticosteroid inhalers might give a mild improvement from causing a faster recovery from hard efforts, but taking them just before a race probably wouldn't make any difference in the race itself. Over the counter epinephrine inhalers are a different story - you can get seriously hyper on them.
