radiation uh you know on the space station we get anywhere from NUMBER_TOKEN to NUMBER_TOKEN chest x-rays equivalent of radiation every single day so that has uh effects on our genes genetic expression changes while you're in space hopefully you know not for the bad genes are like dna rna protein the expression is like a switch you turn it on you turn it off what does that do to your your health and your physiology my telomeres got better the telomeres are ends of our chromosomes that uh as we age they get shorter and more frayed it's kind of like caps on them which is basically an indication of our physical age so the hypothesis one of the experiments with my brother and i is that we were gonna look at our chromos our telomeres and uh what we thought would happen is his would be better than mine but mine actually got better than his you know at first we thought this was due to all the exercise i did maybe the diet very controlled but about six months after i got home uh nasa learned that the japanese had a telomere experiment on these worms and the same exact thing happened to their telomeres too and i never once saw those guys running on the treadmill or working out on the weight machine so we realized there was more to it and i think it's a certain amount of radiation and can be good for you and i think that like stimulated the telomeres to to get better for for whatever reason and there's one last thing that is really good that happens to you when you're in space and it's when you don't use your feet for a really long time you get these like baby feet and uh you know after my first long-duration flight uh when no one knew i was up there a few days later i go to one of these you know massage places um and to get a you know a massage and you know at the end of the massage they they um they sometimes rub your feet this woman says to me she goes you have the softest feet i've ever felt in my entire life and all i said to her was thank you i'm really proud of them then i just left she's probably still talking about that bald guy with those really soft faces amazing baby yeah well i recommend that everybody read your book for more details endurance i'm very proud of your accomplishments i'm proud to say that we flew together back in the day thanks for taking the time with us here on the channel today please pass our best to amico and hopefully we can see you guys uh here on the east coast again very soon thanks ward great to be here with you all right that's going to do it for this episode if you're a first time viewer please ring the bell and become a subscriber so you don't miss anything give me the likes and comment check the links below for merch including where to get the punks trilogy my first three novels about life in an f-NUMBER_TOKEN squadron now available for the first time as a kindle so check it out at amazon if you'd like to help support the channel please consider using the super thanks the heart icon below or become a patron at URL_TOKEN wardcarroll in the meantime i look forward to talking to you again
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