Am Mon, 14 Feb 2005 06:04:45 GMT schrieb "Fred J. McCall":

: Think 'calcium loss'. I think this affects women
: much more severely than men.
:[...]
That was not my understanding of what the space medicine studies
indicated. Women under zero-g lose calcium more quickly than men do,
as I recall it. Calcium loss is pretty much THE big problem we're
aware of with prolonged exposure to zero-g.

The answer, WHY women lose more body calcium in zero-G is the basic
solution to find a way to overcome that problem. We should find it -
if it isn't already obvious - and use it for our advantage. Even males
would surely profit (If I were on a multi-year space trip, I would
like "close misses":-) ...

cu, ZiLi aka HKZL (Heinrich Zinndorf-Linker)
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