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“It was common for sea level adapted staff to report tiredness and fatigue daily after returning to sea level from the high altitude mountain observatory.”

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“In 2017 I became extremely ill with flu-like symptoms and was confined to bed for a week, 2018 was filled with colon issues that resulted in a colonoscopy removing a 5mm polyp from the sigmoid colon. Intestinal pains were a feature of high altitude workplaces and I had previously seen a gastroenterologist in 2006 for extreme intestinal pains that were so severe that I was falling over with them. The removed polyp was causing malnutrition to occur and I had been high dosing with nutritional supplements to offset it. My very high altitude coworker had died from fatal colon cancer.”

“I found it strange that I had a large benign tumor on the tendon sheaths of the knee joint. As the tumor grows in the joint, it damages the surrounding bone and tissues if not removed promptly. I later researched the toxicity of very high altitude facilities and realized that I was working in a very abnormal biological environment that was clearly doing strange things to workers health.”