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womanofthehills

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11. " Six months in space leads to a decade's worth of long-term bone loss"

Reply to Mustellus (Reply #4)

Sun Mar 16, 2025, 09:22 PM

Mar 2025

“During space missions lasting six months or longer, astronauts can experience bone loss equivalent to two decades of aging. A year of recovery in Earth’s gravity rebuilds about half of that lost bone strength, researchers report June 30 in Scientific Reports.”

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/space-bone-loss-density-astronaut-recovery-gravity

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