Canned Oxygen TruO2

[Hawkeye 0]

While watching Strikeforce MMA on Shotime I saw a couple fighters using this stuff:

http://www.truo2.com/

Anybody ever try this for hockey?

[Gummer12 134]

I know some NHL teams have experimented with canned O2 (COL for one), there have been a couple different threads on the subject. I'd like to give it a whirl someday when I have some extra cash burning a hole in my pocket, but till then, just gonna stick with room air.

[Hawkeye 0]

I know some NHL teams have experimented with canned O2 (COL for one), there have been a couple different threads on the subject. I'd like to give it a whirl someday when I have some extra cash burning a hole in my pocket, but till then, just gonna stick with room air.

Me too.

When I saw it it reminded me of the joke from "Spaceballs" PerriAIR

[jds 20]

Football players suck oxygen all the time on the sidelines. But, of course, if football was hard they would call it hockey :)

[JR Boucicaut 3801]

Been done before - it was called Oxia.

Looks like they are out of business.

http://www.modsquadhockey.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=21157&hl=oxia

[frankie56 0]

Unless you are playing at altitude, there is not much benefit.

[sickwilly 37]

Will it help get rid of a hangover?

[shooter27 116]

Will it help get rid of a hangover?

Yes actually

Thats the magic word - now I have to try this thing.

[frankie56 0]

COMPLETELY DISAGREE!

The product when used by athletes was geared to help DECREASE recovery time by providing more oxygen to the athlete. This can be at sea level or at 5280ft. That is how I sold NHL teams on it.

Sad to hear about Oxia. Bryce was a good guy.

I love how TruO2 uses the word "recoveries." Two thumbs up!

The only benefit you will get is a placebo effect. I don't discount that, but I hate to see people spend their money thinking they will get more.

98.5% of the oxygen in the blood is carried by hemoglobin. At sea level, the amount of oxygen in the ambient air will fill all available hemoglobin. In other words, you can breathe 100% oxygen and you will not load the blood up with more than a tiny bit of additional oxygen (actually less than and additional 1%) because the hemoglobin is already nearly full.

At 5,000 feet altitude, only 95% of the hemoglobin is filled with oxygen when it leaves the lungs. Room for more. Extra oxygen may help in this situation. At 10,000 feet, only 80% of your hemoglobin will be filled with oxygen. You will be hypoxemic and your thinking impaired, thus the need for oxygen to be available if the cabin pressure is lost.

The only way to effectively improve oxygen delivery to the body is to increase the blood flow (VO2max or aerobic capacity), or increase the amount of hemoglobin in the blood (blood packing, EPO). Lance Armstrong had a freakishly high VO2max of almost twice the average person. Miguel Indurain was about the same.

This all assumes you don't have lung disease, your not severely anemic, your not having a heart attack, and you don't smoke. On second thought, that may describe a number of hockey players, but probably not the pros.

Please don't go through the trouble of looking for internet "proof". I teach graduate level physicians about oxygen delivery and I'm quite familiar with the literature. WADA allows you to suck up all the supplemental oxygen you want, it's not considered a performance enhancing drug, that should tell you something.