Smelling salts trigger a deep breath that wakes people up. There’s no strong evidence that smelling salts directly improve athletic performance. No study has associated long-term risks with the use of ...

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Athletes do smelling salts all the time, and they operate at the highest physical level of anyone in modern society. So, I thought, why can’t I—a really solid youth baseball player, still in his ...