when people are in zero gravity environments, like an astronauts going to space, what keeps all of their organs/blood/liquid inside of their body as opposed to flowing out from their mouth?

Question

when people are in zero gravity environments, like an astronauts going to space, what keeps all of their organs/blood/liquid inside of their body as opposed to flowing out from their mouth?

In: Biology

Answer 1

Gravity isn’t what holds you together. You are held together by connective tissue, which includes tendons, ligaments, and a bunch of stretchy, tough proteins that hold all your cells together.

If this wasn’t the case, people would explode in the manner you envisioned every time they were upside down.