With all the excitement about Lance
Armstrong's 7th winning of the Tour de France (he uses an altitude simulator),
and the success of Kenyan runners in sea level competition. Does anyone see a
possible correlation between horses and humans when it comes to elite
performance and training at simulated altitude or use of Intermittent Hypoxic
Treatment, even when taking into account the horses splenic
mechanism?
Here is Dr Wickler of Cal Poly's
paper on
Hematological changes and athletic performance in horses in response to
high altitude (3,800 m)
