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Date: Thu, 02 Nov 1995 00:06:46 -0500
To: "A.Appleyard" <A.APPLEYARD@fs*.mt*.um*.ac*.uk*>
From: Marc Dufour <mdufour@CA*.OR*>
Subject: Re: Tired after diving
Cc: techdiver@terra.net
At 04:56 PM 11/1/95 GMT, A.Appleyard wrote:
>  Richard Pyle <deepreef@bi*.bi*.Ha*.Or*> wrote:-
>
>> If the tiredness [after diving] was due only to physical exertion, then why
>> is it I feel wasted after a 10-minute drift dive (no exertion) to 100 feet
>> on air, but I feel great all day long after a 2.5-hr swim dive on nitrox to
>> the same depth?  This is a pattern that is repeated over and over for me.
>
>  Is it due to more oxygen in the system allowing the body to be better at
>clearing up as it goes the biochemical rubbish left by continuous exertion and
>fuel-burning?


    How about having LESS nitrogen micro-bubbles causing all those nasty
lesions around your either your capillary blood vessels, or within your
muscular tissues? I suppose that the micro-bubbles presence would somewhat
hinder lactic acid removal from muscular tissues? Or what would be the
chemical/physical interaction between lactic acid and the micro-bubbles???

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