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Old 05-11-2012, 09:24 PM
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i don't buy the assertion from some that it's performance enhancing.
Good. You should not.

Lasix is "peformance enhancing" in the same way that an athlete with asthma takes a hit off their inhaler before running outdoors. If you don't prevent a problem (bronchiole constriction in human, EIPH in horse) you won't perform to your ability.

Lasix is given to multiple seniors with congestive heart failure. It's your grandma's "water pill". At the very same dose given to race horses via injection. Yes - grandma is using "horse drugs" at the same dose for her lungs because her heart doesn't work well! And it's only performance-enhancing if you consider grandma not drowning in excessive lung secretions from pulmonary edema "performance enhancing".

Of course, we can let human runners, kids that play soccer, grandma and horses stop in their runs because they can't breath, but why in the heck would we with hold valuable therapeutic medication from them?

Lasix doesn't make a horse faster (like an amphetamine would). It enables a horse simply to run to their genetic and conditioned ability without bleeding into their lungs and suffocating.
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