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Personal Portable Oxygen!
Today's breathable air contains less than 21% oxygen while previous years contained more than 50%. Big city living or being at high altitude decrease your oxygen intake even more. Without the proper levels of oxygen, your cells become less efficient and slowly turn into sick cells. If you were able to consume more oxygen per breath and develop a better breathing technique, your cells will reproduce and grow making your body and mind stronger and healthier.
High altitude and you.
Approximately 40% of us that travel to elevations of 6,000 feet or higher, get symptoms of altitude sickness or AMS (Acute Mountain Sickness). Within the first 3 days, you can experience headaches, fatigue, shortness of breath, nausea, poor appetite and insomnia. Many who go to the mountains experience some of these symptoms without knowing what causes them. Altitude sickness can look and feel like the "flu".
5 Things you can do to help prevent altitude sickness.
- Gradually increase in altitude.
- Reduce strenuous activities for the first few days and give your body a chance to adjust.
- Avoid alcohol, sleeping pills, narcotics and hot tubs. These decrease ventilation, intensify hypoxemia and make symptoms worse.
- Take a prescription medication like Diamox which has been shown to speed up the acclimatization process. See your doctor for this.
- Take oxygen! Personal portable oxygen is safe, cheap and easy to use. Take oxygen at night when symptoms are worse. Take off and on during the day as symptoms dictate.
Once symptoms occur, they should improve over several days. However, if symptoms do not improve, they may be relieved with the administration of oxygen or descent to a lower altitude. When in doubt, see a physician.
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