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[–] qooqie@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

The real reason this study is interesting

The collective evidence suggests that women experience greater lower limb muscle atrophy than men at least through the first four months of microgravity exposure. More sex-specific microgravity studies are needed to help protect the health of women traveling on long-duration orbital and interplanetary spaceflights.