Biography:

William J Rowe, MD FBIS (Fellow British Interplanetary Society), FACN (Fellow American College of Nutrition, Retired Fellow Royal Society of Medicine), is a board certified Specialist in Internal Medicine. He received his MD from the University of Cincinnati and was in private practice in Toledo, Ohio for 34 years. During that time, he supervised over 5000 symptomlimited maximum hospital-based treadmill stress tests. He has studied three world class extraordinary endurance athletes and published their exercise-related magnesium deficiencies. This triggered a 20 year pursuit of the cardiovascular complications of space flight. He has published in The Lancet that extraordinary, unremitting endurance exercise can injure a perfectly normal heart. Of only four space syndromes,