Originally Posted By: Phiker
Originally Posted By: mrchowmein
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food wise, i stick with dry stuff if possible such as bars and trailmix. peanut m&ms are good. avoid jerky. sodium nitrate in jerky reduces oxygen delivery and make your altitude sickness feel even worse.


I believe that is factually wrong.
First of all, nitrates used during the curing process of food products are converted to nitrites over time (for long cures for like salami & saucisson). Hence you are not consuming nitrates but nitrites. Second, numerous studies have examined the effects of nitrates and nitrites on exercise performance. Although some of those studies have not found beneficial effects of nitrate dietary supplementation, none have shown negative effects.

Eating jerky won't make your altitude sickness/acclimatization worse!

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4245587/pdf/nutrients-06-05224.pdf

http://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMc1107887


Exercise performance has nothing to do with AMS. And yes, nitrates have been shown to aggravate AMS. I'll try to find the study, read it recently. It involved beet juice.

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