High Altitude Quotes

“After my flu-like illness, I was telling the doctors my progressing sickness felt like Altitude Sickness!”
― Steven Magee, COVID Supplements

“Astronomical observatories are at high altitude due to the radiation levels from Space being elevated because they are in a partial vacuum, the humidity is low and they are often above the clouds.”
― Steven Magee, Toxic Altitude

“I see a lot of commonality between the health issues high altitude workers develop and Long COVID symptoms.”
― Steven Magee

“Long COVID appears to be very similar to high altitude diseases.”
― Steven Magee

“COVID-19 is very similar to high altitude diseases.”
― Steven Magee

“After the horrendous way the high altitude Denver International Airport staff treated me on my vacation, it is unlikely I will ever go to Colorado again!”
― Steven Magee

“I had an unfortunate encounter with mean staff at the high altitude Denver International Airport that ruined my vacation and I now avoid Colorado.”
― Steven Magee

“My high altitude injured right hand is recovering. The hand itself is not injured, it is the injured nerve in the arm that is causing muscle wasting in the hand. It seems to be bruised. Injured nerves can take 1-2 years to recover. Given that it has shown an extensive recovery already, I expect it may fully recover in a year or so. The damaged nerve was an occupational hazard of being an altitude researcher!”
― Steven Magee, Toxic Altitude

“The kidneys are vulnerable to hypoxic damage.”
― Steven Magee, COVID Supplements

“I am aware of at least three people that changed gender during their time in high altitude astronomy.”
― Steven Magee

“When I worked in professional high and very high altitude astronomy, I was completely clueless to what the long term biological hazards of the job were!”
― Steven Magee

“The workers in professional astronomy were not informed about the extensive biological research that had been performed on high and very high altitude biological exposures.”
― Steven Magee

“As I watched my mental and physical health rapidly decline during a decade of working in high altitude professional astronomy, I became suspicious about the toxicity of the jobs and left the field to protect my long term health.”
― Steven Magee

“The definition of ‘Summit Brain’ is a malfunctioning brain that is at high altitude and/or is hypoxic and/or is radiation exposed and/or has been exposed to Faraday cages and/or has viruses and/or has used medical oxygen and/or has used over the counter drugs and/or has been exposed to industrial pollutants and/or has been exposed to partial vacuum and/or has malnutrition and/or has long term damage from the various exposures.”
― Steven Magee

“Poor diet combined with high altitude exposures may bring increased risks of illnesses and cancers.”
― Steven Magee

“I was always eating the subsidized food from the high altitude cafeteria in professional astronomy. It was free, so I would eat it. The food was low quality at every astronomical observatory I worked at.”
― Steven Magee

“Suicide Islands: The higher the island is, the higher its suicide rate appears to be.”
― Steven Magee

“Jobs at high altitude are chronic stress jobs for sea level adapted humans with associated detrimental health outcomes.”
― Steven Magee

“I am a hormonally challenged kind of guy.”
― Steven Magee

“I develop altitude sickness at just 1,000 feet. At what altitude do you develop it?”
― Steven Magee

“High altitude illness and disease research is where radiation health research was during the time of Marie Curie.”
― Steven Magee

“I may have been the first altitude sickness researcher in history to have been harassed out of a high altitude international airport by armed and potentially dangerous police officers.”
― Steven Magee

“It seems the 2023 Long COVID research is heading in the direction of my 2022 findings in my high altitude and COVID books. It is causing amino acid deficiencies!”
― Steven Magee

“High altitude astronomy is a dinosaur that needs to go extinct.”
― Steven Magee

“If you want to know what biological incompetence looks like, just take a look at high altitude professional astronomy.”
― Steven Magee

“There are serious long-term adverse health effects associated with being a high altitude worker.”
― Steven Magee

“For many years I have thought long term human survival in a climate changed world will probably occur in high altitude colonies near the equator.”
― Steven Magee

“I knew I was disabled when everyday home activities became overwhelming!”
― Steven Magee

“It was a mistake to follow my management training in high altitude professional astronomy. I never realized I was disciplining sickened staff that had become forgetful through altitude sickness that included oxygen starvation, adverse environmental exposures, central sleep apnea and mal-acclimatization!”
― Steven Magee

“There was no management training in high altitude professional astronomy that covered the long-term health effects that were appearing in their mal-acclimatized staff.”
― Steven Magee