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...Temperature changes can also trigger exercise-induced asthma - working out in the cold brings a large amount of cold air into the lungs, which can cause airways to constrict in response. Fortunately, once it has been recognized, exercise-induced asthma is easily treated with short-acting bronchodilators such as albuterol - in the study, using albuterol inhalers helped athletes feel a whole lot better and work out longer. So if you find your lungs burning through every workout, check in with your doctor. There may be a reason for your wheezing - and a simple solution to help you breathe easier...
...sound like the routine of another conniving athlete preparing for Athens, but it's the way an 11-year-old boy in Menlo Park, Calif., is fighting muscular dystrophy. Starting in 2002, the youngster began taking low doses of albuterol, a popular asthma drug, as a participant in an experimental study at UCLA. The lead investigator of the trial got the idea for testing albuterol by searching the Internet for references to muscle-building drugs, which soon linked her to sites for body builders. The body builders had learned about the drug's effect from combing the journals of agricultural...
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