Author: Monica Piris, M.D.

Success Factors for Climbing Mount Everest and Other 8,000-Meter PeaksNormobaric hypoxic training has been around for at least 30 years, I experimented with it on myself extensively in 2002 and 2003. Not much changed during most of that time. But recently it has come to our collective attention that people seem to have unlocked some variables that appear to make it work like it’s always been promised to work. But the tricky bits are that 1) the response is highly individualized and 2) while we are much closer to understanding how to tweak the exposure time and the simulated altitude,…

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