I learned about it at a Christmas Party from a guy whose son is a Neuro Surgeon. It is really quite impressive and sounds like something out of a sciece fiction movie. If the Double Blind tests are succesful and it makes it to market this stuff is going to be in every ambulance, ER, Field Hospital etc etc.
Still sounds scary to me, but I am NOT in the medical profession. If you want to know about locks, well I can help you with that.
I don't know if it's the same product, I don't think so, but there was a study somewhere in europe where on even days medics out in the field would give normal IV saline and on odd days they would give a simular synthetic product. The synthetic did help a little inbut nothing amazing, there were also a few problems/concerns. It was really expensive, and it was a lot harder to store just at the right temp.
I have studied up on this quite a bit, but I am not familiar with the study conducted in Europe. This product may have been inspired or developed concurrently but those concerns you mention seem to have been rectified. The product has a long shelf life and can be stored at room temp. You should look at the link Sea Snake mentioned earlier at http://www.sybd.com/ go to the newsroom and watch the video that the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) did on the product, as well as read a couple of the articles.
I think this could possibly be a ground floor oportunity for some of us poor divers to invest in something that could directly benifit our Sport!If you have a few hundred $'s to gamble with you can buy a couple hundred shares from an online broker and hope the product makes it to market.
I can understand and appreciate the benfits of this, but what about atheletes using this for enhanced performances like we know some famous athletes have been accused of in the past. Surely if you can enhance our real blood with "doping" it's probably just as easy to use a synthetic product to do the same thing, especially if it became readily available.
yea but anything good can be exploited one way or another.
If I understand the info on the site correctly, the product is naturally removed by the body by exhalation within 24 hours. So an athlete would have to dope with it just before competing, and then wouldn't they fail blood screenings? *shrug*
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