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Space Medicine: Homeopathy and Interplanetary Travel

I nterplanetary travel may become a sudden reality sometime in the near future. Just as the early explorers who dared to journey across oceans and continents to discover new places we can foresee a lot of people traveling to explore the unknown frontier in search of another habitable planet. Few enterprising organization and individuals have already started accepting bookings for interplanetary travel. Studies conducted so far indicate that interplanetary travel lowers the immunity of humans to the point that we could fall prey to infections that will kill us. Research has shown that a special fly – Drosophila born and raised in space, which share many fundamentals of the immune system with mammals such as mice and human—had their immune system seriously weakened by microgravity in space, just as seen in astronauts traveling into space. Among astronauts space and extraterrestrial environment is known to have caused many symptoms/disorders. Disruption of gastrointes