by WouterB » Fri Sep 25, 2009 2:30 pm
by MScholes » Fri Sep 25, 2009 2:57 pm
by mstender » Fri Sep 25, 2009 3:51 pm
by WouterB » Fri Sep 25, 2009 3:55 pm
mstender wrote:Not so serious, but how about studying the effect of doing rippers (pot ) at high altitude. I once smoked a bong at 10000ft and it really kicked my ass. I would not be available to do it though since I kicked the habit many years ago.
by fatdad » Fri Sep 25, 2009 7:53 pm
by Luciano136 » Fri Sep 25, 2009 8:07 pm
mstender wrote:Not so serious, but how about studying the effect of doing rippers (pot ) at high altitude. I once smoked a bong at 10000ft and it really kicked my ass. I would not be available to do it though since I kicked the habit many years ago.
by mconnell » Fri Sep 25, 2009 9:35 pm
MScholes wrote:The affect that oxygen thin air has on asthma.
Everyone I know feels that there is much benefit that altitude has on asthma conditions - not to mention well known climbers - Anatoli anyone?
Is there any actual medical evidence to support it though? I don't actually know if there is or not, but it'd be nice to see.
by Smoove910 » Fri Sep 25, 2009 10:45 pm
sjarelkwint wrote:Smoove910 wrote:Test the effects of an orgasm at elevated altitude compared to sea level. Male and female.
I'm sure you can find a lot of subjects willing to be the control.
But only male persons probably ... Why do you need to have sex on a 6000m summit, it is cold and the view will give you an orgasm without taking out your stuff in the air ...
by CClaude » Fri Sep 25, 2009 10:45 pm
by mstender » Fri Sep 25, 2009 10:57 pm
CClaude wrote:The affect of l-arginine on the reduction of pulmonary edema.
-Its well known that l-arginine is the limiting substrate in the production of nitric oxide with the assumption that the individual has a healthy endothelium (probably a good assumption with a fit individual).
-It has also been shown that by increasing nitric oxide production, there is also a concurrent improvement in vascular tone.
-It has also been shown recently that vascular tone plays an important role in determining who gets HAPE and who doesn't.
Give these three assumptions, I'd expect that l-arginine would play a role in determining the outcome of HAPE.
One thing to caution about is the administration of l-arginine to an individual with a previous myocardial infarction is contraindicated due to an increase in cardiac events (from which I'd expect is a result on variations in vascular tone which may allow an increase in number of patient getting HF (sort of a result of the erectile hypothosis on why bone marrow mononuclear cells enhance cardiac function in post-AMI and HF patients by increasing angiogenesis leading to a higher capillary density and a stiffer tissue, whereas l-arginine increasing NO production would lead to an enlarged but relaxed blood vessel, allowing for myocardial slippage allowing a post-AMI patient to progress to HF).
If you want the journal articles that support the above assumptions I'd be glad to supply them.
by Luciano136 » Fri Sep 25, 2009 11:03 pm
sjarelkwint wrote:EDIT: The more I think about the IQ test the more interesting it gets .. The days you are at altitude you can test people ... You can try to arrange with the people to test them when they get back and aren't wasted (altitude + tired + ...) anymore in mendoza ...
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