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BODY SCAN RESULTS

Heart
Brain
You’ve probably noticed that In space, there’s no gravity,
you are feeling a little dizzy so the fluids in your body
and off balance. That’s go in all directions. That’s
because the receptors in your the reason for your puffy
body got scrambled when you face and blocked nose,
first started living in the cause of your “space
microgravity. Space adaption sniffles.” More seriously,
syndrome (SAS) will have your blood plasma has
affected you in lots of other dropped by 20 percent
small ways, too—no wonder and your heart has begun
it’s sometimes called “space to shrink. Regular exercise
scurvy.” Your brain scan will cut down the time it
looks fine, but if you feel any takes to recover when you
symptoms of SAS again, avoid return to Earth.
going on any space walks!

Bones
Muscles
In orbit, your muscles don’t After three months, you’ve lost
have to fight gravity, so you’ve six percent of your bone density.
already lost 20 percent of We can see this from the high
your muscle density. Exercise calcium levels elsewhere in your
alone won’t solve the problem, body, which can lead to kidney
but hormone pills and gene problems. On a two-year
therapy can help your muscles mission, your bones could
grow. Be warned: after become very weak. You may
a 211-day flight on Salyut 7 even lose a few teeth. Taking
in 1983, cosmonauts Anatoli vitamin D and K pills and
Berezovoy and Valentin Lebedev undergoing UV light therapy
could barely walk for a week can help in the short term.
after returning to Earth.

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