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Article: Peppermint touted as athletic performance enhancer.
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- Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week
- Article date:
- February 8, 2003
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2003 FEB 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Breathing pure peppermint has been scientifically shown, through human testing at Wheeling Jesuit University (WJU) in Wheeling, West Virginia, to enhance athletic performance.
Whether the reason for the effect is purely psychological or also linked to physiological changes in the brain has not been determined.
"It resulted in about three extra pushups no matter the person's fitness level; [running] times improved a second and hand grip 15%," said Dr. Bryan Raudenbush, the psychophysiologist and WJU professor who did the peppermint tests.
All of Raudenbush's numbers are averages. A few athletes ...