burnthesheep wrote:
I thought anything through the skin was a no. I follow a popular anti doper athlete on Strava giving out discount codes for “lactigo” in a recent activity comment section.
I thought we agreed here it was either all placebo BS or if it did go through skin was illegal.
A bit disappointed to see that person giving out discount codes on Strava for stuff like that. You’d think people that skilled to be “in the know” about why it’s placebo or illegal.
That’s all.
Topical delivery is not a banned delivery mechanism at all (unless it contains prohibited substances).
I agree that this substance is probably garbage, trying to latch on to the
PR Topical Lotion Edge advertising blitz. The "active" ingredients appear to be Epsom salt and L-carnosine. As far as I can tell there's jack-all evidence suggesting that Epsom salt helps in muscle recovery at all. It's just myth. There's is some evidence supporting L-carnosine as an endurnace aid, so that at least passes initial the laugh test. But possibly not other laugh tests, like does the lotion actually effectively deliver a useful dose?
There's a little bit of evidence that
Topical PR Edge Lotion could give the same relatively proven-but-marginal benefits of sodium bicarbonate supplementation without risk of upsetting your stomach by oral ingestion. But I'm pretty skeptical of this stuff too, particularly given the pixie-dust levels of baking soda in the stuff. Though at least the company that makes the stuff does have a plausible mechanism for efficient delivery through the skin. Not much detail available, but it seems more legit.