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French fries for everyone, then 
French fries for everyone, then
Here is the thing that I noticed in space flight rodent guts. There seemed to be a lot of lipid accumulation in the villus and in the epithelial cells of the colon (weird). This means that lipid absorption was likely impaired sooooooo, fired foods may not be as bad for you in space!
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Thats a fun tidbit. Reminders me of when we did dissections from RR rodents, and noticed fatty livers. Hope some interesting research questions you can pursue on the villus and epithelial cells (eg WHY? broader impact? primary/secondary impacts? issue with the lacteals? something about columnar epithelium themselves in mg? etc etc 
) Has there been any research digging into the submucosa?
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So y’all saw that too? We have an investigator here that is looking into causes. it’s not just fatty but really inflammatory which is the complete opposite of what goes on in the gut.
Likely has to do with initial immune bias in the tissues.
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Peristalsis impairment ?
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Not only that but there is loss of immune cells in the gut and the overall cyto/chemokine and growth factor levels are lower that in habitat controls. So “loss of inflammation” though that is not specifically correct as it is more of a suppression of normal immune function (small scale immune responses are happening all the time in the gut)
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very interesting indeed!! Maybe funding from KFC? 
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Well Doritos did send chips to space last year
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Since we’re on the topic of food, there also were cookies baked in space a few years back
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