[Interview] Dangers of Microgravity For The Human Body

Microgravity is dangerous for humans. But if we want to conquer space, we need to know how to mitigate the negative effects. Join my discussion with Dr Danail Obreschkow from UWA. We talked about studying the effects of microgravity on human body, particularly eyes, and potential ways to deal with them. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Intro 01:35 Flying on parabolic flights 08:49 What does weightlessness do to human body 14:17 Things we can't fix 17:44 Studying eyesight in space 25:01 Will artificial gravity solve it? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/mSz_F82LPGI 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER frasercain@gmail.com ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)