Less Oxygen is BETTER?

Compared to those who live at sea level, the 2 million people worldwide who live above an elevation of 4,500 meters (14,764 feet) — about the height of Mount Rainier, Mount Whitney, and many Colorado and Alaska peaks — have lower rates of metabolic diseases, such as diabetes, coronary artery disease, hypercholesterolemia and obesity.

Now, the work of U.S. National Science Foundation-supported researchers at Gladstone Institutes has shed new light on this phenomenon. The scientists showed that exposure to chronically low oxygen levels, such as those experienced at high elevation, rewired how mice burn sugars and fats.

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[DanielSMatthews]

Walking up and down those mountain sides may have more to do with it than anything else.

[MetalWolfz]

this is a correlation, there could be many other factors at play.