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With Summer now just around the corner, we take a closer look at just what happens to the human body when you fly (Image: Getty) As the Summer holidays approach, many of us are eagerly anticipating our trips abroad to soak up the sun and explore exotic destinations worldwide. However, any holiday requiring a flight can sometimes be more complex than expected, with air travel often having surprising effects on our health. Indeed, flying is an unnatural mode of transport for humans.

We didn't evolve to flap our arms and fly through the sky, nor did we grow wings to do so unaided - but we did have the inventiveness to develop air travel and zoom across the skies in a long metal tube at over 500 miles per hour. Given this 'unnatural' method of transportation, it's perhaps unsurprising that it has some rather peculiar effects on the human body. function loadOvpScript(){let el=document.



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