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Ep 115 Altitude Sickness: Balloons though?

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The Effects of Altitude on Respiratory Alkalosis

So hyperventilation at sea level is different than the hypoxic ventilatory response. Altitude is not necessarily the only place that you would see this happen, but this is what happens at altitude. So basically to sum it up in short, we have a decrease in the partial pressure of oxygen which is less oxygen in our arteries. That triggers our brain to breathe deeper and faster to allow more oxygen to diffuse into our arteries so that we maintain good oxygen concentration.

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