Why these volunteers are in bed for 60 days straight
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- A group of volunteers is spending two months lying in bed-with their feet up and one shoulder always touching the mattress-even while eating, showering, and using the toilet. But why? This extreme bedrest study is helping scientists understand how space travel affects the human body and how to keep astronauts healthy on long missions.
Microgravity causes muscle and bone loss, fluid shifts, and other physiological changes similar to those experienced by bedridden patients on Earth. By studying volunteers here on Earth, researchers can develop better countermeasures for astronauts and even improve treatments for medical conditions like osteoporosis.
In this study, participants are divided into three groups: one stays in bed with no exercise, another cycles in bed to mimic astronaut workouts, and a third cycles while being spun in a centrifuge to simulate artificial gravity. Scientists hope artificial gravity could become a key tool in protecting astronauts during deep-space missions.
Could you handle 60 days in bed for the sake of space exploration? Let us know in the comments!
Credits: ESA - European Space Agency
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astronauts in rotating space station in 2040: weeeeeeeee
I’m bedbound since Christmas and it’s terrible. Besides I’m sick, your body is not happy with laying down.
Ive also been mostly in a bed for the last 6 months. It's no way to live. Praying that you improve and thrive.
So sorry you are going through this. 💔
@@BerlynicPerò non sono la stessa persona,vede che hanno scritto due persone distinte?Mah...🤔🙄🤷🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️😬😮
This is a fascinating study! That bit with the centrifuges, I can imagine future commercial space stations and interplanetary craft having something like that aboard to combat the effects of microgravity
The efforts researchers make for scientific exploration. ❤💕🌌🚀🌌💕❤
I am a super active person. I couldn’t do it
I'm not sure I could do the full 2 months but I would love to try exercising while laying down in that centrifuge.
in which centrifuge was this filmed? Was it at the one in Slovenia?
WHERE DO I SIGN UP!?
I dont think i can do that
Agotador, dos meses en cama. Gracias
Oof, no, I couldn't do it. It would drive me potty not being able to get up and move around.
More akin to torture ....we evolved with gravity, let alone the cosmic rays you'll deal with in long distance space travel .
So ? Never leave earth ? Seems cowardly. Thousands of people died at sea trying to find new lands. Don't expect space exploration to be a walk in the park. Atleast we are collective trying to make space travel safe.
@@12xenn45Non porti jella,grazie...🧠🤔🙄🤷🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️😬🤨
Im down, how do i sign up?
@@speedysmoke9 literally down 😂
@@emil5814👍👏🤦🏻♀️😅
Cosa?🤌🤦🏻♀️😅
Was this narrated by Fern Brady?
This would be absolute t0rture for me.
This is how I imagine the job of every European
Yet, they are more physically fit than most of the world.
@GaryInAmsterdam when the stroopwafles are a 50 mile bike ride from your house
@@MemeMan_MEMESQUAD haha I think I'd be halfway across Germany by then. 🤣
Don't give this task as a home-work assignment to a child. Early bedtime is bad enough.
Ma cosa dice!🧠🤔🙄🤌🤦🏻♀️😬😅
Very interesting but why aren't there any women shown? Are there non that participate?
First one🤞🙆♂️