Altitude Effect with ExtremeO2

High Alti­tude

VO2 Max Training — Altitude Effect with ExtremeO2™

One of our Doc­tors asked: How does decreased O2 enhance the effect of high oxy­gen?

Hypox­ic or high alti­tude train­ing is a well estab­lished method.  In sim­ple terms — inter­mit­tent hypox­ia trig­gers adap­tive respons­es that cause the body to opti­mize oxy­gen deliv­ery.  There are sev­er­al known, and prob­a­ble reflex effects that occur to enable the body to oper­ate in pro­longed reduced oxy­gen envi­ron­ments:

• Pul­monary Adap­tive — Open Lung pas­sages
• Vas­cu­lar Adap­tive — Exer­cise vasodila­to­ry reflex­es

In sim­ple terms — I think it:

• Dumps the spleen — increas­es cir­cu­lat­ing blood vol­ume
• Opens the lungs — increase lung capac­i­ty
• Increas­es heart rate — more veloc­i­ty & pulse pres­sure in lungs — greater tur­bu­lence
• Increas­es res­pi­ra­to­ry rate — High­er phys­i­cal pres­sure in lungs

So these effects cre­ate a form of res­pi­ra­to­ry iner­tia.  When com­bined with a rapid switch to rich oxy­gen — serve to deliv­er an even high­er con­cen­tra­tion of oxy­gen to tis­sues.  This mod­el is con­sis­tent with many obser­va­tions.

Fur­ther Read­ing:

• Vas­cu­lar adap­ta­tions to hypo­bar­ic hypox­ic train­ing in post­menopausal women
• Use­ful­ness of com­bin­ing inter­mit­tent hypox­ia and phys­i­cal exer­cise in the treat­ment of obe­si­ty
• Altered glu­cose metab­o­lism and pre­served ener­gy charge and neu­ronal struc­tures in the brain of mouse inter­mit­tent­ly exposed to hypox­ia 
• Anaer­o­bic con­tri­bu­tion dur­ing max­i­mal anaer­o­bic run­ning test: cor­re­la­tion with max­i­mal accu­mu­lat­ed oxy­gen deficit