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#220 - Astronaut Scott Kelly on CGMs, the NASA Twins Study & the Impact on Metabolic Health in Earth & Space | Josh Clemente & Scott Kelly

LEVELS – A Whole New Level

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The Resilience and Adaptability of Your Body

My heart lost 25% of its mass in that nearly a year I was on the space station. That's despite you know all the exercise you're doing but if you think about it our physiology evolved for your heart to push against gravity and that's a strong force. When you go to space and you don't have that gravity now your head's swollenYour body's trying to adjust and lose all that fluid. But at the same time your heart does not have to work nearly as hard as it did before.

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