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HungryLikeTheWolf99 t1_iyldsrq wrote

In the era of my great-great-grandfather (who was given this advice), there was a common medical mantra: "Go West, young man, where the air is clean and dry," as a solution to tuberculosis, which was fairly rampant at the time.

One can imagine a future in which a provider tells one of many IBS patients to "Go to space, young man, where your gut biome can sort itself out." Or alternatively, "Go to the upper ring of the rotating habitat where there's only 60% earth gravity" or any of a number of other gravity manipulations as a treatment.

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rainbluebliss OP t1_iyliuwz wrote

No kidding. This does though hold a lot of quirky thoughts about the human organism and the energies and laws that keep things in working order but literally what holds us together.

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[deleted] t1_iym4qei wrote

It's high time we built a rotating ring station with multiple gravity levels. We really need to be studying the long term effects on the body in 0 < g < 1.

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