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I don't think people realize that you need gravity to exercise your muscles, and if you don't have gravity, your muscles have nothing to have resistance against.
Dr Vinay Gupta, a pulmonologist and Air Force veteran, told DailyMail.com
The IV in her wrist is most likely for rehydration and electrolyte balance
Dr Otulana saidThere's nothing permanent about what they've done, but they have to be very targeted about what they're doing from an exercise and nutritional standpoint to get back there.
Dr Jaquish saidSunita Williams' visibly thin wrists could indicate muscular atrophy, particularly in the forearm muscles, which are less used in space.
Dr Olalekan Otulana, a general practitioner at Cassioburt Court in the UK, told DailyMail.comThat amount of time in space is crushing.
Dr John Jaquish, a biomedical engineer in at Jaquish Biomedical, told DailyMail.com
While great strides have been made in space-friendly food, sustaining on that diet for a very long time is likely not going to provide your body with optimal nutrition that you'd get from eating a more varied diet on Earth.
Dr David Shafer, plastic surgeon and owner of Shafer Clinic and Advitam metabolic wellness clinic in New York, told DailyMail.comI'm not surprised that we saw and we're seeing that she clearly has some issues there, because women tend to be impacted by these things more than men,
he said
In order to counteract some of these negative effects, in particular the bone loss, we have what is called a resistance exercise device,
said Whitson
In space there is a headward redistribution of body fluids and that can raise intracranial pressure, the pressure around the brain and the eyeball,
Canadian Space Agency astronaut Dr Robert Thirsk told CBC NewsSince the whole body is exposed to micro-gravity, the heart doesn’t need to pump around as much blood as it used to on Earth, and the cardiovascular system deteriorates,
Angelique Van Ombergen, lead for life sciences at the European Space Agency explained on a YouTube ShortOn orbit, we lose 1% of our bone mass in a month if we don’t do anything about it,
Whitson told the BBCWithout gravity, when you get into space your spinal cord actually relaxes. You don’t have gravity pushing all your vertebrae together, and then when you go into space you get taller, slightly – I grew about about half an inch/three quarters of an inch.”
Talking to BBC Global last year, the astronaut and biochemist explainedUnfortunately I didn’t get to stay taller, because as soon as I got back within 24 hours you shrink back down, gravity does that to you,
added WhitsonThe best results that we have to show that we're being very effective is that we don't really have a fracture problem in astronauts when they return to the ground,"
Bokhari told AFP
Shielding is best done with heavy materials like lead or water, but you need vast quantities of it,
said Eggl, of University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignThis happens to every single astronaut, even those who go into space just for a few days."
Emmanuel Urquieta, vice chair of Aerospace Medicine at the University of Central Florida, told AFPWe try to keep the bone strong and muscles strong to minimize any effects of microgravity,
Dervay said
There is some individual variability on how quickly they recover, but it is pretty impressive to see how they will turn the corner and really adapt quickly,
Dervay saidWe don’t see any need for any special precaution,
Dina Contella, deputy manager of NASA’s International Space Station Program, said Friday
I had a pretty severe case of SANS,
NASA astronaut Jessica Meir said before the latest launch