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Ep 115 Altitude Sickness: Balloons though?

This Podcast Will Kill You

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The Importance of High Altitude Physiology

Barrett found that illness or death always occurred at a certain level of blood oxygen. He also plotted the first oxygen dissociation curves. Barrett speculated that people and other animals who had sustained exposure to high altitude may produce more red blood cells for increased oxygen absorption, which was later proven correct. The field really kind of opened up in the last couple of decades of the 1800s with high altitude field stations established.

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