Space Flight Calcium: Implications for Astronaut Health, Spacecraft Operations, and Earth

The space flight environment is known to induce bone loss and, subsequently, calcium loss. The longer the mission, generally the more bone and calcium are lost. This review provides a history of bone and calcium studies related to space flight and highlights issues related to calcium excretion that...

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Main Authors:	Martina Heer, Sara R. Zwart, Jennifer L. L. Morgan, Scott M. Smith, Torin McCoy, Daniel Gazda
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	MDPI AG 2012-12-01
Series:	Nutrients
Subjects:	bed rest bone calcium collagen crosslinks dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry space flight
Online Access:	http://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/4/12/2047

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title	Space Flight Calcium: Implications for Astronaut Health, Spacecraft Operations, and Earth
title_short	Space Flight Calcium: Implications for Astronaut Health, Spacecraft Operations, and Earth
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series	Nutrients
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publishDate	2012-12-01
description	The space flight environment is known to induce bone loss and, subsequently, calcium loss. The longer the mission, generally the more bone and calcium are lost. This review provides a history of bone and calcium studies related to space flight and highlights issues related to calcium excretion that the space program must consider so that urine can be recycled. It also discusses a novel technique using natural stable isotopes of calcium that will be helpful in the future to determine calcium and bone balance during space flight.
topic	bed rest bone calcium collagen crosslinks dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry space flight
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Space Flight Calcium: Implications for Astronaut Health, Spacecraft Operations, and Earth

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