Group: Health Supplements

Created: 2012/01/01, Members: 102, Messages: 16613

Supplements can be a great aid with your health and fitness goals. Combined with the proper exercise and nutritional plan they can be quite effective.

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Advil and running???

parko03
parko03
Posts: 156
Joined: 2004/01/28
United States
2004/04/07, 07:27 PM
Oh here's one for ya. A girl told me today that she takes two advil about 45 minutes before she runs for her timed mile and half. She "claims" it helps her by thining out her blood and making it slightly easier to run and breath.

Have any of you heard of this before? Or is this chick completely out of her mind?

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bb1fit
bb1fit
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Joined: 2001/06/30
United States
2004/04/07, 08:14 PM
A NSAID will do more to "dull" the pain. This is more the reason that it helps her, not the thinning of the blood. The problem here is it may mask any incurring symptoms, and then when the problem does happen, it is big due to not being treated because there were no symptoms. Mainly because their primary action is to relieve inflammation that can lead to pain ("pressure"). That is why they are used. However, when you choose to use an NSAID, you pay for the decreased pain by slowing healing of injured tissue that may result as I stated above without you knowing it till too late. The use of these are common with runners though, usually long distance runners though.

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