Performance and metabolic benefits after sleeping in a high-altitude tent
A multi-dimensional n-of-1 study ~ Have you ever wondered what it feels like to spend 2 months sleeping at 11,000ft in an altitude tent set-up in your bed, while living and training in your everyday environment at sea-level? And more importantly, does it really do any good to you or is all the hype just a placebo effect? Well ... I decided to answer those questions through a personal study designed to recapitulate the standard performance high altitude protocol (ref. [1]) and extend it by one more month. In this post, I will try to describe the process, what I experienced and what really changed in my physiology throughout a 13-week long experiment. To give you a sense of the magnitude of this study, it entailed tracking and analyzing over 5,000 data points for 90+ days. The data collection included most physiological parameters previously reported in scientific literature that change with high altitude exposure. To make things exciting and get rid of the thri...