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Re:Taking meldonium for performance enhancement by will_brown on Monday August 28, 2017 @07:13PM (#15120923)
I have recently suffered a traumatic brain injury (tbi) - not unlike what may be common in football, hockey and other contact sports - and not exactly pleased with the medical response that there is no real treatment other than rest, I began doing some research and came across an open letter from a Harvard PhD to the NFL commissioner regarding cannabis and concussions, CTE and TBI. They focus on the CBD heavy variety and suggest it acts as a neuroprotector. Then a little more research I came across an Israeli study regarding TBI improvements in rats using cannabis, I even thought I found an article saying the Israeli military uses cannabis for treatment of soldiers and enemy combatants with TBI but I can't seem to find it now.

I'm not so sure about peds for competition or recovery, but if cannabis is considered a ped by various sports commissions and can be beneficial to brain injury that is a damn shame.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ae3gqe/the-nfl-sh...

http://www.timesofisrael.com/cannabis-could-treat-traumatic-...

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Re:Taking meldonium for performance enhancement by TheLegace on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @08:19AM (#15131461)
If you have suffered TBI I highly suggest getting neurofeedback training to try and repair any possible damage caused to the brain by the injury. It is a very powerful tool to change the structure of your brain. Just make sure you find a specialist that can accurately create a profile for your particular set of circumstances and creating a special training program for that. I almost signed up for a borderline scam, but luckily found the leading expert in the field (She essentially pioneered Neurofeedback training).
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Re:Taking meldonium for performance enhancement by addicted on Tuesday August 29, 2017 @07:41AM (#15123589)
Cannabis is not considered a PED (anyone who has taken Cannabis can easily atttest to that).

Cannabis is a problem due to other political issues which means it's illegal in most major sport playing jurisdictions.

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Re:Taking meldonium for performance enhancement by 3131s on Tuesday August 29, 2017 @07:56AM (#15123647)
It might be performance enhancing. I say that partially because marijuana may be a bronchodilator, but mostly because I know many college and some pro athletes who use marijuana. I can run a sub 11 second 100m while very high.
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Re:Taking meldonium for performance enhancement by bonesss on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @07:07AM (#15131135)
> Cannabis is not considered a PED (anyone who has taken Cannabis can easily atttest to that).

Cannabis is very, very, much considered a PED. It is banned in competition by USADA and WADA.

Anesthetizing effects, motor processing effects, lung performance, etc...

I will agree that most people most of the time are not smoking and becoming super athletes. I do not agree that athletic performance is unaffected by it and that it's consequences are universally negative. Hence the ban against using it in fair athletic competition.

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Re:Taking meldonium for performance enhancement by bo1024 on Tuesday August 29, 2017 @01:28AM (#15122293)
To me, this doesn't seem to fall under performance-enhancing drugs as much as medication for injuries sustained in the sport.
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