Ebert Family Clinic

04/13/2026

Pressure as Prevention: Can Hyperbaric Oxygen Help You Beat Altitude?

Pictured above is the highest hyperbaric chamber in the world at the Bolivian Naval Station at Lake Titicaca. If you’ve ever climbed high enough to feel short of breath, dizzy, or just “off,” you’ve likely experienced the effects of high altitude on the human body. Once you get above about 2,500 meters (8,200 feet), the air gets “thinner”—not because oxygen disappears, but because there’s…...

Pictured above is the highest hyperbaric chamber in the world at the Bolivian Naval Station at Lake Titicaca. If you’ve ever climbed high enough to feel short of breath, dizzy, or just “o…

04/02/2026

THE WAY OUT

A TRUE STORY OF SURVIVAL IN THE HEART OF THE ROCKIES This book by long time Colorado high country resident, writer and hut master Devon O’Neil is essential reading (or listening) for everyone who loves nature, mountains, rivers, adventure, or snow. Skillfully written to weave in stories of tragedies and near-misses, he includes details about avalanches, frostbite, hypothermia, river raft catastrophes, mountain bike crashes and moose attacks- something for everyone!...

02/24/2026

Lightning Strikes in Colorado

"Colorado ranked third in the United States for the number of lightning fatalities between 2005 and 2014."...

“Colorado ranked third in the United States for the number of lightning fatalities between 2005 and 2014.”

01/22/2026

Peak Performance: Coach wants a Blood Test

Iron Deficiency without Anemia in Individuals Living at Altitude Madeline Larson, PA-S2 People living at high altitude typically have higher hemoglobin levels compared to those at sea level. This physiological adaptation occurs due to the lower oxygen availability at high elevations which stimulates the production of erythropoietin, a hormone that prompts the bone marrow to produce more red blood cells made famous by the Lance Armstrong blood-doping scandal....

Iron Deficiency without Anemia in Individuals Living at Altitude Madeline Larson, PA-S2 People living at high altitude typically have higher hemoglobin levels compared to those at sea level. This …

11/04/2025

You may be surprised to learn that the University of California San Diego has been on the forefront of high altitude and hypoxia research since 1968. I recently attended the 9th Annual Center for Physiologic Genomics of Low Oxygen Summit (CPGLO) led by Tatum Simonson PhD where I gave a short presentation on Growth At Altitude. I met Dr John West who joined the university in 1968 after a Mount Everest research expedition with Sir Edmund Hillary in 1960. ...

You may be surprised to learn that the University of California San Diego has been on the forefront of high altitude and hypoxia research since 1968. I recently attended the 9th Annual Center for P…

11/01/2025

Exceptional costumes, beautiful children, creativity and community- that's what Halloween is to me.

08/13/2025

HAPE Poster This poster was presented at the American Thoracic Society International Conference in San Diego in May of 2018. As yet unrecognized and unpublished, Trauma HAPE joins other presentations that have been suggested by altitude providers but have not been studied yet including Highlander HAPE, Post Anesthesia HAPE and Reverse HAPE, where life threatening hypoxia develops after return from altitude. ...

HAPE Poster This poster was presented at the American Thoracic Society International Conference in San Diego in May of 2018. As yet unrecognized and unpublished, Trauma HAPE joins other presentati…

07/29/2025

"... individuals at altitude may have HbA1c levels that are falsely elevated. This inaccuracy can lead to an inappropriate diagnosis of diabetes in individuals living at altitude."

Whether you are visiting the high country for a short hike or ski vacation, planning to move up in elevation for a while, or growing your family in thin air, you will find both anecdotal evidence and more technical discussion about the low-oxygen environment at high altitude.

07/18/2025

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07/18/2025

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04/14/2025

We'd like to recognize Rocky Vista University student of osteopathic medicine Jared who rotated with us a year ago. He just got back from presenting at a conference in Fort Collins on research he conducted on gout in youth at altitude while he was up here in the high country. He will be presenting the same research at the Pediatric Academic Societies conference in Honolulu later this month as well! Keep up the good work, Jared! And as they say in Hawai'i: MAHALO!

03/24/2025

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