Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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 When these recently returned astronauts walk, they rapidly become exhausted. When they stand up, their normal cardiovascular reflexes work poorly, and they feel lightheaded and even faint. All this happens because astronauts in space live in an environment lacking gravity.
When researchers want to simulate living in a weightless environment while still on Earth, they don't exercise their volunteer patients to exhaustion: they put them to bed. After days of bedrest, these volunteers show the same kinds of biological changes as the astronauts. |
| When they return to Earth after being in space at zero gravity for as little as a week's time, astronauts nearly always become profoundly decon-ditioned. Deconditioned means that their bodies have suddenly become drastically out of shape. When these recently returned astronauts walk, they rapidly become exhausted. When they stand up, their normal cardiovascular reflexes work poorly, and they feel lightheaded and even faint. All this happens because astronauts in space live in an environment lacking gravity. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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 If you've seen Stanley Kubrick's classic 2001: A Space Odyssey, in which inter-galactic astronauts travel in a spaceship autopiloted by a computer they nickname "Hal," you can envision what's going on in your body. Hal takes care of running all the spacecraft's functions with minimal human input, but when the astronauts try to take over the vehicle, they realize that Hal is in total control and they're just along for the ride. When they attempt to thwart Hal, he tries to destroy them! |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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| All this happens because astronauts in space live in an environment lacking gravity.
When researchers want to simulate living in a weightless environment while still on Earth, they don't exercise their volunteer patients to exhaustion: they put them to bed. After days of bedrest, these volunteers show the same kinds of biological changes as the astronauts. When they make even minimal effort, they feel their hearts pound and are very easily fatigued. Sound familiar? Prolonged resting may feel like the right thing to do; in fact, it may sometimes feel like the only thing you can do. |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
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 The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in the United States has done an enormous amount of research into how gravity affects the body, because lack of gtavity, which astronauts experience during space flight, can have adverse effects on health. For example, without the constant pull of gravity, astronauts lose bone mass.
The vertical axis also is associated with geopathic stress. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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| Don't be frightened of these symptoms; they reflect your body's response to inactivity—the same thing those astronauts experienced. By exerting yourself just a little bit more than usual, any symptoms of added fatigue that do develop will not last long.
Then, instead of just walking to the start of the driveway, walk to the middle of the driveway (if you don't have a driveway, you could start by measuring a point several feet down your hallway or sidewalk). Yes, you might feel tired, but you'll bounce back as long as you've made room for this energy expenditure in your energy envelope. |
| After days of bedrest, these volunteers show the same kinds of biological changes as the astronauts. When they make even minimal effort, they feel their hearts pound and are very easily fatigued. Sound familiar? Prolonged resting may feel like the right thing to do; in fact, it may sometimes feel like the only thing you can do. But prolonged resting can also have adverse health effects well beyond producing more uncomfortable symptoms.
When I was an intern, the standard of care for someone with a heart attack was three weeks of bedrest. |
James Dowd and Diane Stafford
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 Studies in children, young women, athletes, and astronauts all show that weight-bearing and resistance exercise help produce new bone. The more exercise and resistance training you do regularly, the greater your bone production and the higher your bone mass. Conversely, sedentary individuals, including those who are immobilized due to hospitalization, have dramatic increases in bone turnover and bone loss.
Rickets and Osteomalacia
If osteoporosis is bone demineralization, rickets in children and osteomalacia in adults represent the failure to mineralize new bone. |
Alex Steffen
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 Forgetting for a moment the danger posed to astronauts in the International Space Station (experts say there's a one-in-ten chance of a debris accident in the next ten years [David 1996]), these junk particles endanger the low-orbiting satellites most useful for studying Earth. A fast-moving debris ring around the planet presents some serious challenges to the kind of space science that can tackle environmental and social challenges.
But what can be done? We can't hand out trash bags to astronauts and have a litter-patrol day. Still, there are several mutually compatible options. |
Ron Garner
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 Other energy emanations, such as Schumann waves, are naturally occurring, beneficial electromagnetic waves that oscillate between the Earth and certain layers of the atmosphere, nasa had to install equipment to generate these waves in their manned satellites14 to offset their absence in space after astronauts returned to earth feeling distressed and disoriented. Jet lag is also linked to the weakness of Schumann wave energy at high altitudes.
Earth areas where energies are harmful are called geopathic zones. Areas that are health enhancing are called geomantic zones. |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
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| Modern scientists, except perhaps for those involved with protecting the health of astronauts and those who work underground, such as miners, barely acknowledge that natural energy fields have any real impact on the state of our health. |
| For example, without the constant pull of gravity, astronauts lose bone mass.
The vertical axis also is associated with geopathic stress. Although NES cannot make a direct one-to-one correspondence between cause and effect in this case, Peter has found that there is a strong bioenergetic correlation between the vertical axis of the Big Field and the human nervous system. Among the most common symptoms of a Big Field distortion is a disrupted sleep pattern. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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| Hal takes care of running all the spacecraft's functions with minimal human input, but when the astronauts try to take over the vehicle, they realize that Hal is in total control and they're just along for the ride. When they attempt to thwart Hal, he tries to destroy them! Your autopilot is usually invisible, but I'm convinced that we constantly receive warning messages from it when processes head in the wrong direction.
For example, right now you're breathing without thinking about it, but the moment you do, you become conscious of your inhalations and exhalations. |
Charles Barber
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 Alternatively, one could argue that the door to the Frontier was finally slammed shut with the January 28, 1986, explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger that killed all seven astronauts on board.) Somewhere in the last few decades, American forward movement has gotten stuck. No longer is there any attainable final frontier, other than the imaginary one on Star Trek.
With nowhere stunning and glorious left to go, Americans are now left only to explore their own psyches, their own inner journeys. After Neil Armstrong's triumphant stroll, the place to go has been inward. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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 Perhaps the most extreme example of those who don't use it losing it is astronauts who return after space flight. After time without gravity, they lose significant muscle and bone mass—so much so that they have to be helped just to walk on solid ground. They often also lose their mental grounding and perception of where they are. Or another example: Spend any amount of time with your leg in a cast, and the immobility will cause its muscles to wilt like a waterless rose.
The reason? Your body is too efficient to waste energy feeding limbs and organs that aren't being used. |
Lynne Mctaggart
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 Some of the astronauts had thought about God while they were out in space, and everybody in the entire space program knew they were looking for something new about the way the universe worked. But if Alan and Stu had known that he was trying to transmit his thoughts to people on earth, they would have thought him more of an oddball than they did already.
Ed finished the night's experiment and would do another one the following evening. But after what had happened to him earlier, it hardly seemed necessary any more; he now had his own inner conviction that it was true. |
Gregg Braden
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 As amazing as it sounds, all computers—from those that guide our astronauts to the moon to the one in your car that tells you when it's time for an oil change—are based on a code made up of different combinations of 1 's and O's.
This code of bits is believed to be so universal that NASA even used it to inscribe the message that left Earth in 1972 aboard the Pioneer 10 spacecraft. The idea was that if intelligent life ever found the football-sized probe, the binary language would tell them that we're a species that understands the way the universe works. |
Lynne Mctaggart
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| From this perspective, as the earth traded places in and out of view with the rest of the solar system, sky didn't exist only above the astronauts, as we ordinarily view it, but as an all-encompassing entity that cradled the earth from all sides.
It was then, while staring out of the window, that Ed experienced the strangest feeling he would ever have: a feeling of connectedness, as if all the planets and all the people of all time were attached by some invisible web. He could hardly breathe from the majesty of the moment. |
| If you could successfully do this, you could make a spaceship travel at ten times the speed of light, which would be apparent to people on earth but not to the astronauts inside. You'd finally have yourself a Star Trek WARP drive.
What you are doing by such 'metric engineering', as Hal termed it, is getting space-time to push you away from the earth and toward your destination. This is possible by creating large-scale Casimir-like forces. |
| Or use a very fast rocket, but modify the inertia of the astronauts so that they wouldn't be flattened by G forces. And if you could somehow turn off gravity, you could change the weight of the rocket or the force required to accelerate it.**-* The possibilities were endless.
But that wasn't the only aspect of zero-point energy with potential. In some of his other work, Hal had come across studies of levitation. The modern cynical view was that these feats were performed by sleight of hand, or were the hallucinations of religious fanatics. |
Mark Schapiro
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 Studies date back decades, to at least 1971, when NASA declared that they wanted phthalate-free plastics in the living area of the astronauts they were sending into orbit, after determining that the substance becomes more volatile in space.21 In 2003, the Harvard
School of Public Health reported a correlation between phthalate levels and sperm motility and concentration: the higher the former, the slower and lower the latter. |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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 This technology was first invented by NASA to help astronauts more comfortably withstand the enormous pressures they experience on liftoff. Mattress companies have taken this technology and put a great deal of money and research into developing it into some of the most comfortable mattresses available. However, people have different responses to memory foam; some love it, while others can't stand it. If you're unsure, briefly lying on a memory foam mattress in a showroom is unlikely to be enough to help you make your decision. |
Lynne McTaggart
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 It has proved invaluable in eliminating the pain felt in a phantom limb.44 astronauts have even used biofeedback to cure motion sickness while journeying to outer space.45
The more conventional view of biofeedback maintains that it has something to do with relaxation—learning to calm down the fight-or-flight responses of our autonomic nervous system. However, the sheer breadth of control would argue that the mechanism has more to do with the power of intention. |
Joseph E. Mario
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 Chosen by NASA as the main food nutrient source to be used by astronauts in space. Counteracts environmental pollution, increases survival and growth rates of fish, prawns, brine shrimp, race horses, zoo flamingos, and pets.
The desert adapted species can dry out, turn frosted white, and become sweet when Proteins turn into sugars during Spirulina's dormancy. |
Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
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 If this sounds like too much work, just think of it this way: If we are not walking around strengthening ourselves by overcoming the force of gravity, our muscles and bones begin to weaken and deteriorate, just as astronauts, in a gravity-free environment, begin to lose bone mass. To further elucidate this point, a study in Europe was done in an effort to find easier ways to feed mentally disadvantaged, institutionalized children. |
Alex Steffen
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| The extreme temperature conditions—it can go as low as -59 degrees Fahrenheit (-51 degrees Celsius) in the summer and -120 degrees Fahrenheit (-85 degrees Celsius) in the winter—coupled with the low air pressure (only 645 hectopascals) and extreme isolation (during the winter, it is quite literally impossible to get to the station), make it an ideal setting for studying human biology under conditions similar to those astronauts would experience on a trip to Mars. |
Richard P. Brown, M.D., and Patricia L. Gerbarg, M.D.
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 Not surprisingly, the sheer magnitude of social and psychological stresses that astronauts must deal with from the moment of liftoff can result in depression, insomnia, irritability, and poor judgment. Failure to adapt emotionally and physically can endanger the life of everyone on board.6,7-11
The hazards of mental stress during space missions became evident soon after man first struck out to explore the heavens. NASA uses the word off-nominal to euphemistically describe maladaptive behaviors among its astronauts. |
James Howard Kunstler
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 Later, in manned spacecraft, the astronauts could also drink the water that the fuel cells produced.
There is no question that fuel cells exist and that they work. But huge and confounding questions arise over the economics of hydrogen. The problem is that hydrogen is not exactly a fuel. It's more accurately a "carrier" of energy than a fuel. It takes more energy to manufacture hydrogen than the hydrogen itself produces. |
Gale Maleskey
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 So, even astronauts dine on meals that are as close to real food as they can get. The usual space shuttle fare is reconstituted freeze-dried, packaged food similar to the lightweight stuff that backpackers eat. These foods can provide all the energy, vitamins, and minerals the astronauts need.
In addition, astronauts may take along vitamin and/or mineral supplements if they like, Dr. Smith says. On longer missions, supplements may be required to compensate for potential deficiencies, get more of one nutrient. Take single supplements of an individual nutrient if necessary, says Dr. Hathcock. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Gravity has traditionally been used to promote bone mineral density, for without gravity, bones become weak and fragile (as astronauts quickly discovered). But apparently there hasn't been any hard science conducted on this relationship, so the FDA now considers it "unproven quackery."
"There is no convincing evidence to show that gravity offers any health benefits whatsoever to people," FDA commissioner Dr. Wack Jobs said. |
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