Is Carbon Monoxide Performance Enhancing and Should it Be Banned?

1 % Better - Hidden Stories in Sport

In this episode we cover peaking in sport, whether going to live sporting event is good for your health and changes to the qualifying through the rounds of the Olympic Track Events. We then quickly visit the doctor’s office which is full of Sprinboks before discussing Carbon Monoxide in sport, how it works, is it performance enhancing and should it be banned?

(00:00) Introduction

(00:34) Xylon’s Trivia Escapades

(04:27) Community Shoutouts

(05:29) Peaking and Age of Performance at the Olympics

(19:52) Could Usain Bolt have Won Another Olympic Medal?

(22:31) Live Event Attendance and Wellness

(25:29) Olympic Track Event Qualification and Repechage System

(31:00) Doctor’s Office

(32:44) Carbon Monoxide use in the Peloton

(40:11) How does Carbon Monoxide Rebreathing Work to Measure Haemoglobin?

(44:55) Why Would You Use Carbon Monoxide Rebreathing?

(46:14) How Much Does Haemoglobin Increase Due to Altitude?

(47:51) Why May Carbon Monoxide Rebreathing be an Issue?

(49:00) What is the Role of Carbon Monoxide in the Body?

(50:35) Can Carbon Monoxide Rebreathing be Used for Training?

(51:46) Articles on Carbon Monoxide Rebreathing Use for Performance

(57:01) Is Carbon Monoxide Rebreathing Doping and/or Will it be Banned?

(57:31) How Does the Athlete Biological Passport Work?

(60:30) How Does a Substance or Method Make it Onto the Banned List?

(61:25) Should Carbon Monoxide Rebreathing be Added to the Banned List?

(64:41) July’s 1% Better Challenge

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Article on Peaking and Primes

https://academic.oup.com/jrssig/article/21/3/6/7686552

Article on Live Sporting Events and Wellness

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2022.989706/full

Original Article on Carbon Monoxide Use in the Peloton

https://escapecollective.com/exclusive-tour-riders-are-inhaling-carbon-monoxide-in-super-altitude-recipe/

Article on Use of Carbon Monoxide Rebreathing and Quantification of Haemoglobin Increase as a Result of Altitude Training

https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/47/Suppl_1/i31

Article on Carbon Monoxide and Haemoglobin Increases

https://journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/fulltext/2020/09000/chronic_exposure_to_low_dose_carbon_monoxide.4.aspx

Article on Carbon Monoxide and Performance Improvement

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/physiology/articles/10.3389/fphys.2019.00701/full

David’s Article on What Creates the Best in the World

https://open.substack.com/pub/healthperformancenexus/p/what-creates-the-best-in-the-world?r=34wgun&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

David’s Article on Talent

https://open.substack.com/pub/healthperformancenexus/p/what-is-talent?r=34wgun&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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