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how do you handle high altitudes? can you still party?

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Prepare first,go slo: It is important to acclimate  to elevation by lessening activity at the start. .  Since oxygen levels are lower at elevation, we tend to hyperventilate to maintain oxygen levels.  Use of acetazolamide a diuretic can be started prior to going to elevation to cause mild hyperventilation making acclimization easier.  Hydration and avoidance of excess alcolhol prior to acclimating is helpful.

Question 2

why do athletes do 'high altitude' training?

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Increases blood cell: Increases blood cells and allows them to get more oxygen and more endurance at normal altitudes.

Question 3

how do people manage to live at high altitudes?

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Adapt and overcome.: The human body is pretty flexible and adaptable if changes are not too drastic or demanding.  Anyone can live at high altitude if they acclimate slowly.  La rinconada in peru has 30, 000 inhabitants at 16, 728 ft above sea level.  Their bodies produce extra red blood cells to compensate for the reduced pressure of oxygen.

Question 4

what is the best way to adjust to high altitude?

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Ginkgo Biloba: If you are not on blood thinners you can consider using a supplement ginkgo biloba.  It dilates the blood vessels, especially in the brain, thus allowing for more blood flow and oxygen.  It is also used for memory issues. Check w/your doc and the very best to you.

Question 5

how does the body acclimate itself to high altitude?

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Many changes: 1. You breath faster to compensate for the thinned density of oxygen.
2 body makes more oxygen carrying red cells at altitude
3. Kidneys put out more bicarbonate (sodium bicarbonate) to keep your acid base state adjusted. Your rapid breathing blows off carbon dioxide and your kidneys adjust for this change but it takes a few days to body to alter. There are medicines to speed this acclimatization.

Question 6

how does living at high altitudes affect your health?

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High altitude: Living at higher altitudes is different than visiting. When you live there, your body has time to completely adjust. When you visit, you need to make more compensations, but if you stay for more than a few weeks, your body will do it on its own for the most part.People may feel affects from higher altitudes as low as 4000 ft above sea level. Usually by 6000 ft, they will experience more fatigue.

Question 7

does a link exist between high altitudes and longevity?

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No.: Studies done in the himalayas have been discredited because the poor written records of birth certificates. Ages are difficult to verify in those regions. Even said that nowadays is well known that hypothermia and low oxygen ( like in high place ) causes hibernation of cells in the body putting them under inanimated suspension preventing cellular damage and cell death. See what others have to say.

Question 8

what is the definition or description of: high altitude?

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High altitude: Simply put, literally, 'high altitude'. As one goes higher than the 'sea level', be it on mountains or aircraft of some sort, the air becomes 'rarer' or 'less denser'. Higher one goes, more likely the loss in density in air, and higher the chances of having breathing complications.

Question 9

if my baby was born in high altitude are they used to it?

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Not well studied: Very likely. The particular risks for children to high altitude have not been thoroughly studied. Children born ; living at altitude to have normal risk for high altitude pulmonary edema but there may be some increased risk for this condition if a child then travels down to lowland ; then re-enters high altitude. Very small older studies are suggestive   but reasons are not clear.New info pending.

Question 10

could a lowlander adjust to permanently living at high altitude?

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Certainly, Examples:: 1.Your bone marrow will makes more oxygen carrying red cells at altitude
2.The body produces more of a particular enzyme which increases release of oxygen from hemoglobin to the body tissues
3.Your kidneys adjust the acid base state of your body by changing amount bicarbonate (sodium bicarbonate) excreted.
4. Pulmonary capillary pressure increases, forcing parts of the lung to work that are dormant at sea level.

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