Tuesday Tune-In Episode 180: Debunking high altitude myths

We want to unpack all of those hiking myths that you may hear when chatting about high altitude adventure or searching through the mire of the internet 🤔. I’m sure you've heard some confusing ones! Well let's find out if we can debunk a few for you! 🤩

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Both video and audio quality are truly bad, can not watch this. One thing to say: drinking excess amounts of water DOES NOT help against AMS. It is big misunderstanding. Dr Peter Hackett, the leading world expert in high altitude medicine, holds the view that normal hydration (not thirsty, basically) or even being slightly dehydrated is preferred to drinking more than needed, which actually slows down the process. In the US more people die of hyponatremia (drink too much) than from AMS. I asked him about this personally and we had email exchange about this detail a while ago.