High Quotes (385 quotes)

“Descent fatigue occurs in high altitude workers at the end of their workday. They get in the car and drive from the mountain peak to sea level. By the time they arrive at sea level they are experiencing fatigue. It generally subsides after several hours at sea level or by sleeping.”
― Steven Magee, Magee’s Disease

tags: altitude, car, descent, fatigue, high, sea, sleeping, summit, tired, workers

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“Butter tea has been known for centuries to improve health in people exposed to high altitudes.”
― Steven Magee, Hypoxia, Mental Illness & Chronic Fatigue

tags: altitudes, butter, centuries, exposed, health, high, improve, known, people, tea

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“Mauna Kea summit workers have an established history of health crashes during their second decade after they first worked atop the very high altitude mountain.”
― Steven Magee

tags: altitude, crashes, decade, health, high, history, kea, mauna, mountain, workers

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“Not descending to sea level after developing high altitude sickness is a mistake that may come to haunt you a decade later.”
― Steven Magee

tags: altitude, decade, descending, developing, haunt, high, level, mistake, sea, sickness

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“I have a mind and body that is riddled with the long term effects of High Altitude Observatory Diseases, and that is a problem for professional astronomy.”
― Steven Magee

tags: altitude, astronomy, body, diseases, high, mind, observatory, problem, professional, riddled

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“Acclimatization to high altitudes used to occur naturally until the adoption of the car and airplanes.”
― Steven Magee

tags: acclimatization, adoption, airplanes, altitudes, car, high, modern, naturally, occur, until

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“High in the sky and low in the O.”
― Steven Magee

tags: airplane, altitude, high, hypoxia, kea, low, mauna, o, observatory, sky

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“In the medical profession, COVID-19 most resembles high altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE). It is fluid filled lungs. The treatment for HAPE is to administer oxygen and descend to sea level. Long Covid resembles acute mountain sickness (AMS).”
― Steven Magee, Magee’s Disease

tags: altitude, ams, covid19, edema, hape, high, long, medical, profession, pulmonary

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“High altitude pulmonary edema has killed many mountaineers. Just like COVID-19, they suffocate from fluid filled lungs.”
― Steven Magee, Magee’s Disease

tags: altitude, covid19, edema, filled, fluid, high, lungs, mountaineers, pulmonary, suffocate

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“The Sun is the largest nuclear reactor in our solar system! The closer you get to it, the greater your radiation exposure is! How do you get closer to the Sun? You move to the tropics and you go as high as you can! The higher you go, the more intense the radiation is.”
― Steven Magee, Magee’s Disease

tags: altitude, atomic, energy, high, nuclear, radiation, reactor, solar, sun, tropics

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“Insomnia can be one of the first symptoms of hypoxia.”
― Steven Magee, Magee’s Disease

tags: altitude, first, high, hypersensitivity, hypoxia, hypoxic, insomnia, sickness, summit, symptoms

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“I was researching altitude sickness and became aware that creatine was a known treatment for the “Hypoxia Blues” that people experience when living in high altitude cities.”
― Steven Magee, Magee’s Disease

tags: altitude, blues, cities, creatine, high, hypoxia, living, researching, sickness, treatment

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“Light rain is coming down,
and the ground is soft.
I'm running through the clouds,
cutting down the side,
dribbling around them, rolling it back.
Next goal wins, and I want this one.
I need it more than they do.”
― Mary Sullivan

tags: happy, high

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“The ‘Hypoxia Blues’ can be a feature of living in high altitude cities.”
― Steven Magee, Hypoxia, Mental Illness & Chronic Fatigue

tags: altitude, blues, cities, feature, high, hypoxia, hypoxic, living, rockies

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“Many high altitude workers I knew had heart issues.”
― Steven Magee, Hypoxia, Mental Illness & Chronic Fatigue

tags: altitude, arrhythmia, astronomy, heart, high, issues, knew, many, observatories, workers

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“Ultraviolet folate deficiency is a known hazard of high altitude work.”
― Steven Magee, Hypoxia, Mental Illness & Chronic Fatigue

tags: altitude, deficiency, folate, hazard, high, known, malnutrition, ultraviolet, uv, work

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“There are many risk factors with residential solar photovoltaics that can affect human health in the long term. It seems similar to the risks associated with high voltage power lines and radio transmitters.”
― Steven Magee

tags: high, lines, photovoltaics, power, radio, residential, risks, solar, transmitter, voltage

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“Sleeping at high altitudes is known to cause Central Sleep Apnea.”
― Steven Magee, Summit Brain

tags: altitudes, apnea, astronomy, bipap, central, cpap, high, known, sleep, sleeping

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“The "Suicide Belt" is a name given to the high suicide rates around the high altitude “Rocky Mountain” states. You can see the same thing in the highest islands in the Canary Islands and Hawaii.”
― Steven Magee

tags: altitude, belt, canary, hawaii, high, highest, islands, mountain, rocky, suicide

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“The Hawaiian island of Kauai has high rates of COVID-19 and suicide.”
― Steven Magee

tags: covid-19, environment, hawaiian, high, island, kauai, pandemic, radiation, rates, suicide

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“The island of La Palma in the Canary Islands is really steep.”
― Steven Magee

tags: altitude, astronomy, canary, high, island, islands, la, palma, really, steep

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“The highest things are always the first to go. The basic things, the animal things, are preserved the longest. The high always falls. The low can’t fall.”
― David Sinclair, Without the Mob, There Is No Circus

tags: fall, high, low

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“The biological science went against high altitude professional astronomy over a century ago.”
― Steven Magee

tags: against, altitude, astronomy, biological, century, high, observatory, professional, science, telescope

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“You need attitude to research altitude!”
― Steven Magee

tags: altitude, astronomy, attitude, high, mountain, need, observatory, research, summit, telescope

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“The accident rate in professional astronomy summit workers seems unusually high.”
― Steven Magee

tags: accident, astronomy, high, hypoxia, professional, rate, seems, summit, unusually, workers

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“If you think high altitude professional astronomy is harmless, you are easily misled.”
― Steven Magee

tags: altitude, astronomy, easily, harmless, high, kea, mauna, misled, professional, think

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“Why live ocean front when you can live amazing high ocean view?”
― Steven Magee

tags: amazing, front, high, hurricane, ian, live, ocean, view, why

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“The Hawaii island locals say the high mountains protect the island from hurricanes.”
― Steven Magee

tags: hawaii, high, hurricane, hurricanes, island, locals, mountains, protect, say

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“High altitude professional astronomy is a hazardous profession.”
― Steven Magee

tags: altitude, astronomy, cryogenic, gas, hazardous, high, hypoxia, profession, professional, radiation

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“High altitude professional astronomy is a radiation occupation.”
― Steven Magee

tags: altitude, astronomy, energy, high, occupation, particle, physics, professional, radiation, sickness

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