Article: Peppermint Touted as Athletic Performance Enhancer; Company Cites Study; Sells $3 Inhaler as Athletic Boost.

SEATTLE -- Determined to beat your personal record in the next foot race? Need some extra oomph to move that furniture? Wish you could get some fresh legs late in your over-40 league basketball game?

You might want to take a whiff of peppermint from one of the new Peak Performance Sports Inhalers which is being sold in sporting good stores, specialty running stores, golf courses, cycling stores, and health clubs.

Breathing pure peppermint has been scientifically shown through human testing at Wheeling Jesuit University in Wheeling, W.Va., to enhance athletic performance. Whether the reason for the effect is purely psychological or also linked to ...

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