Altitude Quotes

“A sincere attitude of gratitude is a beatitude for secured altitudes. Appreciate what you have been given and you will be promoted higher.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“When I worked in high altitude astronomy, I had no idea how dangerous the management teams were.”
― Steven Magee

“I am a walking chemistry experiment.”
― Steven Magee

“I study high altitude effects on humans. Denver International Airport (DIA) is at high altitude and I have personally witnessed behavioral problems in their staff.”
― Steven Magee

“I avoid traveling through Denver International Airport (DIA) due to its high altitude.”
― Steven Magee

“My research into Altitude Hypersensitivity is extremely inconvenient to any location on planet Earth that is not near sea level.”
― Steven Magee

“Taking Amberen was how I discovered the treatment for Altitude Hypersensitivity.”
― Steven Magee, Pandemic Supplements

“The entire time I lived at altitude in Tucson, Arizona, USA, I was never healthy.”
― Steven Magee, Pandemic Supplements

“As a person with Altitude Hypersensitivity, I spend my time at or near to sea level.”
― Steven Magee, Pandemic Supplements

“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

“When I first started researching Altitude Hypersensitivity, I would see a lot of very weird reactions to altitude exposures. Having developed an effective treatment for the condition, I rarely see reactions to altitude exposures.”
― Steven Magee, Toxic Altitude

“Glycine combined with carnitine significantly reduced hypoxic altitude sickness symptoms in me.”
― Steven Magee, COVID Supplements

“L-Carnitine works with glycine to significantly reduce hypoxic altitude sickness in me.”
― Steven Magee, COVID Supplements

“GPLC is the only supplement that will significantly reduce my hypoxic altitude sickness on its own.”
― Steven Magee, COVID Supplements

“Creatine has been used to treat hypoxic altitude sickness for many years.”
― Steven Magee, COVID Supplements

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

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

“A series of altitude tests I had done in a day on Hawaii island damaged my right ulnar nerve. I had been to view the volcano at night at 4,000 feet. It was freezing cold up there!”
― Steven Magee

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

“Singer Phil Collins is an example of the long term health effects that may be seen in people that regularly flew on the supersonic Concord plane at an altitude of 60,000 feet and a speed of mach 2.”
― Steven Magee

“By the time I left the Mauna Kea Observatories in Hawaii, I was aware the management teams were engaging in illegal activities.”
― Steven Magee

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

“I started to see a serious decline in health in high altitude professional astronomy. Most noticeable was the onset of constant fatigue, memory issues and confusion. The condition progressed during my time in the commercial and utility solar industry where I started falling asleep at work and developed hot skin. The doctors tested me and said I had shift work disorder in 2008 and vitamin D and Vitamin B12 deficiencies in 2011. In 2015 I had a COVID-19 like sickness that made everyone in the family really sick. I never recovered and this started regular visits to the doctors. They diagnosed severe sleep apnea and mental illness and prescribed a CPAP machine. Under the care of the doctors I became much sicker on their prescription drugs and treatments. I eventually got smart and figured out I was not going to recover under their care and they may actually kill me! In 2021, moving to Hawaii island revealed that I had ‘Altitude Hypersensitivity’ and a high altitude commuting disease called ‘Magee’s Disease’. By the end of 2023 I had developed the treatments for these conditions and made a reasonable recovery. There is no cure for either condition. They are life-long illnesses. I now have to live well below 1,000 feet near sea level and take the treatments for the rest of my life. I documented the conditions in the books ‘Toxic Altitude’ and ‘Magee’s Disease’. The treatments for the hypoxic high altitude damage appeared transferable into COVID-19 and Long COVID and these are documented in the books “COVID Supplements” and ‘Long COVID Supplements’.”
― Steven Magee

“The steeper the trail, the nearer we’re to the top.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

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

“As the new medical conditions of ‘Magee's Disease’, ‘Summit Brain’ and ‘Altitude Hypersensitivity’ become more well known and understood, I expect this will eventually lead to the removal of all astronomical industrial observatories atop Mauna Kea.”
― Steven Magee

“Aggressive airplane passengers probably have a bad case of Altitude Sickness. Many people are hypoxic at airplane cruising altitude. They would be wise to visit a doctor to see if they have lung or heart damage, hypoxic blood, Sleep Apnea, Altitude Hypersensitivity or something else that is causing oxygen starvation to the brain.”
― Steven Magee

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