Does nitrox make you feel good?

[WVDiver]

What's a boogey man?

 

[Charlie59]

If you knew me you'd know I like to throw away money. Aside from that I like to dive nitrox when I dive multiple dives (up to 5 a day) over multiple days (5 or 6 per trip). Then I start to see some advantage.

Diving square profiles in the Flower Gardens also a good fit.

My problem is not with nitrox but how it is promoted. And it feels good just ain't right.

 

[Charlie59]

boogey-man, you know, a diver from west virginia

 

[lynny_lynny]

I say no difference. I think chemically/physiologically there is no reason for a better feeling using Nitrox...that said, the only thing left is psychologically, and that is what we call placebo-effect....You better think it makes you feel better because you paid more for it, not to mention the training

 

[lynny_lynny]

The research, medical, and scientific community has been consistantly wrong in the past - despite "controlled" studies...

First, high cholesterol is good, then its bad, now some type is good, and some type is bad.

First, it was good to feed solid food to infants at an early age, now it is not due to gluten hypersensitivity, and due to peanut allergies.

First, we encourage woman to take hormones after menapause, now we did a reversal, because it was causing heart attacks and breast cancers.



The trend I see in this little survey is -- eventually, curious minds will design a larger study showing that nitrox is beneficial for diving fatigue.

I just can not, absolutely can not, explain the nearly 57 to 43 ratio favoring nitrox as a reducer of fatigue, and the sample size here is 133 (much larger than the 11 in the singular blinded study quoted earlier).

My hubby and I run studies for a living.....trust me..this is FAR from valid, blinded, non-blinded or otherwise. This is what it is...a poll/survey not a study

so please....no wagering

 

[cerich]

whats the difference?

Stats 101 proved to me forever never to trust polls or studies.

 

[Charlie59]

Ha Ha, she said that fisherdvm's mom wears army boots.

And that Cerich is why you are a salesman and not a scientist.

 

[cerich]

I'm a diver that sells stuff. Outside diving I would never be in sales.

 

[PoseidonsGirl1106]

Hey Charlie......

Do you know Snowflake? Does he call you at home? Do you have a Dorsal Fin?

I think I need to borrow that "word" from Pirate again.....and place it at the end of this post.

 

[Charlie59]

or, apparently, a mathmetician.