During this episode I was worked with our new space-nerd friend Spencer, a medical student at Florida State University, to try to answer the question, do spaceflight induced ocular disturbances preferentially affect men in space flight, and if so, why might this be?

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References

https://humanresearchroadmap.nasa.gov/evidence/reports/SANS.pdfhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7585261/#cit0016https://www.sciencealert.com/almost-90-of-astronauts-have-been-men-but-the-future-of-space-may-be-female#:~:text=But%20The%20Future%20of%20Space%20May%20Be%20Female,-ALICE%20GORMAN%2C%20THE&text=Only%20566%20people%20have%20ever,about%2011.5%20percent%2C%20were%20womenhttps://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/whm-recent-female-astronautshttps://rendia.com/resources/insights/vision-problems-in-space/#:~:text=A%20study%20found%20that%20the,people%20are%20sleeping%20on%20Earth