Gallic researchers are seeking vernal , levelheaded men uncoerced to embrace their inside sloth for scientific discipline . AsThe Guardianreports , scientist from the Institute for Space Medicine and Physiology ( Medes ) ask male volunteers to spend two months in bed so they can study the upshot of microgravity — the state of virtual weightlessness — on the human consistency . discipline will be paid around $ 17,000 .
grant to experiment coordinator Arnaud Beck , the finish is to reproduce the weightlessness experienced by spaceman at the International Space Station . Prolonged lightness can affect the cardiovascular system , and can also cause vertigo and low blood pressure , in addition to bone density loss , muscle atrophy , and other side effects . Theseeffects can differdepending on whether an astronaut is manly or female , as NASA has found . Still , this study include only men .
Arnaud and his colleagues want to read the harmful forcible effect of prolonged lightness , and find ways to preclude them . The remainder goal is “ to enhance cosmonaut ’ execution and to ready them for their return to Earth,”according to a pressreleaseissued by the Centre National d’Études Spatiales ( CNES ) , the Gallic place agency .
During the experimentation ’s first 15 solar day , scientist will run tests on the bailiwick . After that , the layer - ridden military personnel will spend 60 days on their rachis , their upper bodies position in a slight down incline . As the CNES explains , this side simulates the effects of weightlessness , as it shifts ancestry towards the upper dead body , “ causing the same changes in blood line bulk , cardiac performance and vascular resistance as in distance . ”
In increase , half of the volunteers will take antioxidant and anti - inflammatory food for thought add-on , and the other half will serve as a restraint group . bailiwick will be supervise , so researchers can see how the drug cocktail affects their body as the strong-arm side personal effects of weightlessness kick in .
Subjects ca n’t get up to eat , bathe , or even go to the lav , as they ’re required to keep at least one shoulder touching the seam or its framing at all times . ( In short , participants should be set — and uncoerced — to use a bedpan for two month . ) During the experimentation ’s final 15 solar day , field will spend time regain from their “ weightless ” two month , and the scientist will conduct additional tests to see how the experience — and the add-on — touch them .
The upcoming bed - rest study is technically part of a two - part experiment , launched by the Institute for Space Medicine and Physiology last winter . One group of volunteers stayed in bed from January 2017 until April 2017 , and the incoming group will stay on prostrate from September to November .
require to get pay to drop two months in bed ? Volunteers must be non - smoking male , between the age of 20 and 45 , who are healthy and in honest physical shape . The applicationis available online .
[ h / tThe Guardian ]
