Opportunities and Perspectives of the Use of Cytoflavin for Increasing the Adaptational Reserves of Experts Working in the Mountain Conditions

Abstract

When carrying out professional activities of specialists in mountainous conditions associated with physical and psycho-emotional stress, measures aimed at adapting the body to high altitude hypoxia, such as conducting hypoxic training both in natural mountainous areas and modeling hypoxic hypoxia using hypobaric chambers or hypoxicators simulating normobaric hypoxia and the use of pharmacological correction that allows ro mobilize either economize resources of the organism. The antihypoxant / antioxidant cytoflavin, successfully used in the treatment of diseases of the nervous system, is supposed to be used to improve physical performance and psychomotor functions among professionals working in mountainous areas. The authors conducted a pilot study with the participation of climbers, who completed a course of hypoxic hypobaric training with the pharmacocorrection of trecresan and cytoflavin. Revealed a tendency to increase the level and concentration of attention in athletes who received pharmacocorrection, in contrast to taking placebo. The identified positive trends in psychomotor performance combined with good tolerability of the drug are the basis for planning further research.

Keywords

• cytoflavin
• hypoxia
• climbers
• physical performance
• pressure chamber rise
• hypoxic training
• attention