Alie Ward

I don't know.

And I will also, I'll plead also that I'm on Pacific time.

So we have an osteology episode all about bones and donating yourself to a body farm.

But I'm going to blame two hours of jet lag for my memory's soggy spots.

And I love a refresher.

Just a side note, we talked about these twins and the one on Earth being like, you can take my blood and poop for science, but I'd draw the line at eating rehydrated steak.

And that was in the astro-bromatology episode about space food.

But for more on this parent trap of space data, you can see the NASA twin study, a multidimensional analysis of a year-long human spaceflight.

For the record, I have never, I looked at this paper, I've never seen so many co-authors

on one study.

I squinted counting 84 of them.

And I might be one or two off because I counted so long that I got bored and I started thinking about hockey players kissing.

But yeah, this NASA twin study about twin brothers, Scott and Mark Kelly, both astronauts.

Mark Kelly, yes, an astronaut and an Arizona state senator, husband to Gabby Giffords.

It involved physiological, telemetric, transcriptomic,

epigenetic, proteomic, metabolic, immune, microbiomic, cardiovascular, vision-related, and cognitive data that were collected over 25 months.

And it found changes in telomere length and epigenetics, changes in gut biome, body weight, carotid artery dimensions.

retinal thickness, inflammation, cytokines, cognitive performance, and bone density, which dropped several percentage points.

But yes, many things can break down that scaffolding in your body.

And then is the same thing true for pressure with teeth?