Table of Contents
Preface vi
Introduction: Gravity Is Our Friend viii
Part 1 Why You Need Gravity for Good Health
Chapter 1 Gravity 101 3
What Happens to Astronauts in Space? 3
Gravity and Life 5
Losing the Memory of Gravity 7
Hitting the Risk Zone 8
Chapter 2 Gravity Deprivation Syndrome 13
The Consequences 14
Forgetting How to Live in Gravity 14
How Can We Be Deprived of Gravity on Earth? 18
Gravipause 20
The Slippery Slope Can Start in Your Twenties 22
A Better World through Gravity 23
Chapter 3 What Does Using Gravity Mean? 31
Clues from Four Lines of Research 31
Measuring Your Gravity Fitness 42
Taking Charge of Your Gravity Use 43
It's All about Good Habits 45
Part 2 Putting Gravity to Work for Lifelong Health
Chapter 4 Your Action Plan 51
Turn All Day, Natural Non-Exercise Activities into G-Habits 51
Eight Fundamentals of G-Effective Activity 54
G-Habits Action Plan 57
Chapter 5 Activity, Exercise, and Gravity Machines 75
The Health and Fitness Pyramid 76
Fuel for Your Body 85
Gravity Machines: Pulling Gs 86
Hypergravity 87
For the Fun of It 88
Chapter 6 G-Therapy: Help for Specific Problems 95
Gravity Therapy 95
Rehabilitation 97
Metabolic Disorders 98
Helping the Brain Help Itself 98
Limiting Birth Brain Injury 98
Developmental Injury 100
Adult Brain Injury 101
Victims of Spinal Cord Injury Are Starved of Gravity 101
Maintaining the Disconnected Body 103
Re-establishing Connections 104
Hypergravity-Changing the Gravity Load 104
Stimulating Gravity Receptors 109
Epilogue 115
Appendix: Health Assets Questionnaire 117
Index 122
