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Out of curiosity, what happens after you do an Everest climb? Does the increased production in red blood cells stay? Is it similar to how high altitude training

• canucker2016 2y ago
  depends on where you live. if you're living closer to sea level, then your body won't get the high-altitude stimulus, so when your body replaces the high-altitude amount of red blood cells (RBC), you'll get an appropriate number of RBCs for your current environment. A web search says RBCs get replaced approximately every 120 days, so you'd have about 4 months of higher aerobic fitness unless you did something to keep up the need for more RBCs. Sleeping in a high-altitude tent while at sea level or some equivalent hypoxic stimulus will fool your body into thinking it's at high altitude and pump out more RBCs. Other supposed methods to increase EPO naturally - https://www.menshealth.com/uk/fitness/a754917/sweat-like-a-viking/ https://www.menshealth.com/uk/fitness/a754917/sweat-like-a-v...