Do you want a healthy profession? Then don’t become an astronaut. After a long space journey, you often experience all kinds of physical discomfort, including reduced vision, brittle bones and weaker muscles. Researchers from Florida State University (US) discovered another problem that can seriously ruin the lives of male astronauts on Earth: they are at increased risk of permanent erectile dysfunction.
The bad guy? Cosmic rays
On earth this is stopped by our atmosphere, in space you are continuously irradiated. The researchers exposed rats to the radiation. After a year, the tissue in the penis appeared to be severely damaged and the blood supply was limited. The rats could barely get him up.
Even shorter:
- Weightlessness is also said to affect the muscle structure in the penis.
- Some antioxidants may be able to patch up the tissue.
- American astronaut Mike Mullane had no problems: “Sometimes I woke up in space with an erection so hard that I could have drilled through kryptonite.”
Also interesting: the life of an astronaut on the way to Mars
2024-03-29 07:27:03
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