These climbers summarized the Everest mountain in the record time. Has xenon inhaled his help?
British climbers recently reached the summit of the Everest Mountain in the record period. They inhaled Ksenon gas before walking. But was it a decisive factor?
Part of the Himalayas Mountains is considered the highest point of Everest mountain on the earth, more than 8.8 kilometers to height.
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Last week, the fourth of the British mountaineers took him to the top of Everest Mountain and spent less money from London in total. This is generally a few weeks to grow up to high-rise, the world’s highest peak and head house to expand.
Their guide speaks New York TimesThey moved their success to a secret advantage: before the trip, mountaineers inhaled Xenon gas, which adapted to the best oxygen environment. However, specialists about Ksenon’s medical use are uncertain because of the decisive factor.
“Maybe there’s something there. We don’t know,” said Andrew Subudhi, Colorado Colorado University, a professor of human performance in human performance in the low oxygen environment. “I can’t see anything from scientific evidence, yet firmly or even proven.”
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How does xenon work in the body?
Xenon, noble gas is colorless, odorless, inert. But it affects the body. Since the 1950s, it has been used as an anesthesia since, Robert Dickinson, said that Imperial College is a senior in medicine in London. Dickinson has long learned another interested side of Ksenon: gas has shown a neurethean effect after a brain injury as a traumatic blow to a stroke or per head. Dickinson says that this protective quality has been demonstrated in many animal research and a handful of a handful of a small man.
Both anesthetic and potential neuroprotective effects occur, because Xenon can connect N-Methyl-D-Aspartate (NMDA) receptors to brain receptors. Activating these receptors has an exciting effect on neurons, but Xenon lowers the NMDA activity. After a brain injury, NNDA receptors can be extremely affected, even quietly soapped these receptors can prevent additional damage.
These are the best-learned effects of Kheno’s human health. However, gas was also interested in the world of sports medicine, as it can increase the production of ERTROPOIET (EPO) because it can increase the production of a hormone that stimulates the bone marrow to increase the production of red blood cells. Red blood cells, of course, carry oxygen in the icy slopes of Everest.
Can xenon really emphasize someone’s high heights?
Before attempting Everest’s summit, mountaineers, then Nepal, then Nepal, and then the Everest base camp, fatigue, headache, heartbreaking, and then the height of the height, with heartbreaking and confusion. In serious cases, the lungs fill with liquid or brain tumors, which can also cause a quick death. The weather in the Everest base camp, as at sea level, about half of the oxygen and the summit has 33 percent of the air.
Xenon draws attention in the world of sports medicine for the potential to increase the production of red blood cells carrying a noble gas, oxygen.
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Ksenon’s potential to increase the production of red blood cells can provide oxygen, carrying a performance impetus, or can prevent altogether in athletes who climb the world’s highest peaks. The problem is that it is enough to make a true difference in how the Epo’s peak is run by a high rise in the ponk by Xenon. An anesthesiologist Davide Cattano at McGovravern Medical School at the Texas Health Science Center in Houston showed that some animal survey increased a blood factor in Hypoxia-Hif-1α, which can increase Xenon EPO. The last Everest mountaineers are in question. “The prosperous level of HIF does not give this extraordinary ability,” says Cattano.
A 2019 research Applied Physiology Magazine A few weeks before each day, a few weeks ago, 7 minutes in two minutes, 70 percent of xenon or pine gas, which was randomly tested in the air, tested 12 athletes. Ksenon’s breathing juices saw the epo in their blood, but they did not improve the speed or sports performance measured in the training speed or respiration during training.
Subudi says people who dose EPO with direct injections can prevent altitude disease or improve performance at high height. In a study, colleagues, colleagues, which are currently under a scientific journal, he tried EPO injections in a small group of climbing athletes, and these subjects did not benefit. A different dose or longer treatment course can make a change, Subudhi says, but “no one is less that is less than when I don’t see a measurable benefit.”
Why did the last Everest climbers reach the peak so quickly?
Experts say Ksenon improved the ability of mountaineering to carry oxygen. The analgesic and analgesic effects of gas are possible, the pains and pains of climbers, and fatigue, Cattano speculation. Simply breathe a heavy gas such as xenon, even if the epo effect is small, may result in some changes to the lung ability.
But the athletes did something else: they slept in hypoxic tents before going to the mountains. These tents create a low oxygen environment that definitely increases the production of epo and red blood cells. It can trick preacclimatization, plus the intensive training mode of mountaineers. Dickinson says that Xenon does not add any benefits to the hypoxic tents.
Xenon is expensive that restricts the use of such as an anesthetics and athletics. However, more people, the climbing of Mount Everest is so expensive and so expensive, so expensive, so high, says so high. Subudi says.
“People are literally fighting for their lives at a high height and you are doing things that can give some people a small chance to improve your success,” he says. “Everyone is not ready to sit there and make a complete scientific decision about their lives.”
