Altitude training and hypoxic exposure represent a multifaceted approach in sports physiology and medical research, where controlled exposure to environments with reduced oxygen availability is used ...

People who climb too fast or too high risk acute altitude sickness, which can lead to life-threatening hypoxic brain injury. By using in vivo electrochemistry, researchers demonstrated that ...

Prior to recent COVID-19 travel restrictions, the Earth’s mountains attracted millions of international tourists, trekkers, mountaineers and skiers each year. When travel restrictions ease, visitor ...

In the thin air above 3000m, climbers battle fatigue, cold and altitude sickness, but what if the damage outlasts the expedition? A team at the University of Edinburgh has shown that even a brief ...

Altitude training refers to exposing the body to hypoxic environments (those which limit the amount of oxygen reaching the tissues) long enough to elicit physiological adaptations. These adaptations ...

A new study has found that placing older, sedentary adults in a simulated high-altitude environment with reduced oxygen for a week before major surgery greatly improved their hemoglobin levels, ...

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Human athletes have long utilized training at high altitudes to improve their oxygen-carrying capacity, so it should come as no surprise that trainers of equine athletes have tried similar methods.