How to prevent muscle weakness for astronauts

The US aerospace agency (NASA) tests implant devices to prevent muscle weakness for astronauts.

The US aerospace agency (NASA) tests implant devices to prevent muscle weakness for astronauts.

Equipment to distribute drugs to reduce muscle degeneration that astronauts encounter. And it is also very potential for people on Earth.

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This device is currently in beta testing.

On the space station, due to working in tight spaces and less weight, the entire astronaut's body is easily degraded. Although exercising for 1 hour every day in space, after 6 months in space, astronauts are still very difficult to walk when returning to Earth. It usually takes up to months of therapy to return to normal.

If astronauts fly into Mars in the 2030 era, muscle health will be a big problem. By how can astronauts stay on Mars after months of flying by spacecraft? And Mars's smaller gravity also affects the ability to live on Earth when they return home. Automatic skin implant equipment that distributes muscular remedy that is being tested partly improves that.

40 mice that were implanted with pharmaceutical equipment were tested flying in December last year; half went to Earth in January this year, and the other half in February. It will take several years before astronauts get tested for this device.

Update 17 December 2018
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