Physiological Components and Physical Combat Readiness in Warm, Cold, and High Altitude Extreme Environmental Conditions: Narrative Review

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Military forces based on their mission have to deployment and executed military operation in extreme environmental conditions, they simultaneously experience nutritional and sleep disorders and endure mental stress. This condition plays essential role in body hemostasis, military fitness components and finally commanded mission's success. Neglecting above mentioned condition physiological responses, as long as providing nutritional, training, and motivational needs could be health compromising, reduce productivity and finally led to operations failure. Various insight presented regards fronting these stressful environment induced disorders; it seems, investigating physiological responses to military environment stress, based on its specific characteristics, and employing specified standards for mission in these environments could be one part of possible strategy. In these review we mentioned the physiological responses to environmental stressor of warm, cold, high altitude and their expected effects on military personnel function, as a training and nutritional approach to deal with convinced stress. However, it should be emphasis that providing exact solution based on existence needs, required experimentally simulation of operation environment and preparing classified instructions based on directional research.

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Journal of Military Medicine
Volume 22, Issue 4 - Serial Number 88
July and August 2020
Pages 87-99

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