Long spaceflights and endurance swimming can ‘shrink the heart’
Spaceflight and endurance swimming can both cause the heart to lose mass, say researchers. …
“One of the things we’ve learned over many years of study, is that the heart is remarkably plastic. So the heart adapts to the load that’s placed on it,” Professor Levine, who is also director of the Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine, a collaboration between UT Southwestern and Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, told BBC News.
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