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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." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"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!" - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.)

"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." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"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." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.)

"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." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"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." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"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." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.) "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." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.)

"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." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"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." - Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits (Get the book.)

"Some among them have had life-transforming experiences. astronauts, for example, had the privilege of looking at Earth from outer space; they have seen a precious world without boundaries, a home to all humans and all living things. They came back different people. They realized how petty and superficial it is to squabble over privileges and powers when we live on a resplendent planet unique in this corner of the universe. Another life- and mind-transforming experience is the experience of coming back from the portals of death." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"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." - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.) "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." - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.) "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." - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.) "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." - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.)

"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." - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.)

"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." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"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." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was eager to make sure that astronauts never got food poisoning or its accompanying nausea, vomiting, or diarrhea, especially under (horrible thought) conditions of zero gravity. The system created for this agency by the Pillsbury baking company, no less, worked beautifully. The astronauts ate whatever they had on board and did not get sick. HACCP plans ?when thoughtfully and diligently designed, followed, and monitored ?should work just as well on Earth as they do in outer space." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.)

"It may be that, just as the greatest unexpected spinoff from the Apollo 12 mission to the moon was the photographs of the earth that the astronauts brought back, the most unexpected contribution of the Internet to world affairs will turn out to be the facilitation of our inner, spiritual evolution. The net result of all of this cross-fertilization is that we no longer have to learn the art of self-liberation from scratch, through a somewhat "hit-or-miss" approach. We can learn from each other how best to move toward a more mature mode of being. Once again, positive-feedback loops are at work." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"PR-geniuses even managed to get Bayer aspirin tablets included in the self-medication kits taken to the moon by the Apollo astronauts. But more importantly, a former, pain relief pill was instantly a potential lifesaver. Strokes, infarction13 - suddenly a pill existed to prevent it. What a gigantic business! Bayer flourished and prospered. Bayer (who also produced war material, including explosives, and chemical weapons) survived World War I and also World War II. In 1925, Bayer transferred its assets to I. G. Farbenindstrie AG; although, we won't go into the war crimes of I. G." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"NASA's freeze-dried peaches marked fruits' entree into space. Now astronauts are growing fresh strawberries on board flights to Mars. Chinese seed satellites are orbiting Earth in order to see whether cosmic radiation and microgravity will lead to increased fruit yields. In Canada, Tomatosphere is the name of a program teaching students to plant and observe tomatoes whose seeds have spent months in space shuttles. Fruits are along for the ride: stuck in truck tires, ballast water and loading containers, they accompany us wherever we go." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"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." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.) "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." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"We can't hand out trash bags to astronauts and have a litter-patrol day. Still, there are several mutually compatible options. First, we could prevent further accumulation of some space junk by using any of a variety of technologies to "deorbit" satellites at the end of their useful lives—an option that would be made more realistic by stricter laws governing the use of space. Second, we could clean up our orbit, slowly, using a laser "broom" (mounted on the Space Station, the shuttle, or special satellites) to "sweep" debris from the skies." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "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." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"In 1959, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) asked the Pills-bury Company to develop a food system for astronauts in outer space consisting of total meal replacements in the form of bars for foods and tubes for liquids. NASA demanded safety as the highest priority. The agency did not want its astronauts to come down with microbial food poisoning while on space missions—a difficulty likely to be especially unpleasant under conditions of zero gravity." - Marion Nestle, Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism (Get the book.)

"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." - Richard P. Brown, M.D., and Patricia L. Gerbarg, M.D., The Rhodiola Revolution: Transform Your Health with the Herbal Breakthrough of the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"Let's imagine we're astronauts who have just landed on an uninhabited planet. Our mission is to create a society where people get sick from eating too much of the wrong kinds of food. How would we go about doing this? Well, first we would make all of the least healthy foods cheap, readily available, and convenient to prepare and eat. Next, we would concoct mysterious chemical ingredients in laboratories to ensure that the food is exceptionally tasty in ways that are irreproducible by mortal home chefs. Then we would market the hell out of these foods, in every form of media available." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.)

"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." - Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D., You: Staying Young: The Owner's Manual for Extending Your Warranty (Get the book.)

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