Originally Posted by KC
Originally Posted by smokepole
MIght be a short-term fix, but as far as acclimatization wouldn't it be counterproductive? My understanding is that your body makes more red blood cells in response to air with fewer O2 molecules per lungful. So if you add O2 it would interfere with acclimatization, right?

Smokey:

It takes a couple of weeks for an increase in red blood corpuscles to be detectable and over a month to achieve maximum acclimatization when full blood metamorphosis is complete.


Not according to everythig I've read, and my personal experience. It starts within a few days.


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