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Bodies acclimate. You'll go up in altitude one day and get quite sick, then the next day or another day you'll be fine. Spend a week there and you'll feel bette
by codingdave 7mo ago
Bodies acclimate. You'll go up in altitude one day and get quite sick, then the next day or another day you'll be fine. Spend a week there and you'll feel better. Drink water, stay hydrated, and it will go more smoothly. So unless somebody found something specifically atypical about your body, don't reject all mountains in the world because of one bad day 40 years ago.
- lproven 7mo ago> Bodies acclimate. Absolutely -- and at different rates. I have had severe asthma since puberty. After a decade of suffering, good drugs arrived around the turn of the century, and I've been well controlled since and I've been pretty active. But I am better at altitude. I have narrow obstructed tubes in my lungs. Thinner air flows through them more easily. The higher I am (on land, obviously) the more easily and efficiently I can breathe. In the old days, asthma clinics were located up mountains for this reason. I like spending time at altitude. Thinner air means more oxygen for me, which means I feel better and can be more active. If I could live 3-4 km up all the time, without vast expense in somewhere tiny, I would.