It's a banned substance

http://www.slowtwitch.com/...and_argon__4339.html

Xenon is last year's performance enhancing gas, this year it's all about helium.

Xenon is great in my car headlights though, if I could get a xenon bike light that would be cool.

LOL, what kind of "fitness expo" were you at?

Maurice

Do you, by chance, wear a mirror on your bike helmet when you race?

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How does Danny Hart sit down with balls that big?

we turned down ad requests for a xenon seller a month or two ago, because we did not think advertising a banned substance was appropriate. so, because of your (first) post, now it's more obvious where someone can get the product, and as long as they don't mind that it's a banned substance (banned for competition, i suppose it's not banned to sell and ingest if you're not competing).

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Dan Empfield
aka Slowman

You know, being an inert gas, there doesn't seem to be any way they could test for this. This is one of those rules that truly is on the "honor" system. Hopefully people respect the rules enough to leave this stuff alone.

I was under the impression they would test for elevated hematocrit.

I know it's banned, but I liked the way I felt it enhanced my performance, and it seemed to work immediately but I'm just wondering if that's placebo. What does helium do?

They'll test protour riders through the biological passport. But that is a small percentage of athletes.

I use Xenon in my ion thrusters.

Why not just ask the guys at the office? If you're selling it someone should know what it does...

And since triathlon is swimming, running, and biking you could have just stuck with your original story of it taking 1/4 time off your usual bike ride... as opposed to the run story...

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Znaio_4b6BAJ:forum.cyclingnews.com/showthread.php%3Fp%3D1552882+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

Haha, nice find.

Um yeah, and if after my swim tomorrow I notice any type of difference I may post on a swimming forum to see if I can get some honest responses and info to help me decide if I want to buy this. And I'm a woman. Thanks so much!

If you're using just for 'you're own personal use' does that make it less banned?

Are you shilling for this company? Because please stop, and please take down the name of this product and pref. your whole post. You've had your warning from Slowman.

Honest response is that Xe doping may help, but it's not recommended for several reasons. First, it's a banned substance by all the sports regulatory bodies. Studies have mostly been done on rats/mice. It used to be an anaesthetic (still may be for some cancer patients), but was too expensive when alternatives like nitrous oxide came along. Used improperly, you will probably become punch drunk and shouldn't be operating any machinery, bicycles, or do any running and swimming after. Use too much and you may asphyxiate, like all non-oxygen gases. OTOH, you're possibly being sold a can of air with trace (maybe) Xe and getting the placebo effect. B/c no way is any regulatory body signing off on that stuff.

The Xe likely persists for some time. And yes, to answer someone else's question, there are tests for it. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/...31E37DA9E222D.f04t01
Better tests are under development. Detecting Xe above ambient ~100 ppb levels isn't that hard, especially when therapeutic levels will be easily seen off of someone's urine, blood, spit, and/or expired air.
-J

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How much would you have to take to asphyxiate? Has this ever happened to anyone? To be honest, after I tried it I felt like when I had nitrous oxide at the dentist for about a minute after, but then that went away, and maybe it wasn't really that dramatic of a feeling. I didn't really exercise much for the rest of that day, not because I didn't feel well, just because it was later and I planned on it the next day. Have you tried it? How long will the xenon stay in your blood?

How many people have to tell you that you are an idiot before you realize that maybe you are?

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