stackyFACTSAstronauts and POTS patients share a surprising diagnostic tool. The NASA Lean Test, or tilt table testing, intentionally subjects patients to simulated gravity stress to measure sudden heart rate spikes, proving that postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome is essentially a severe glitch in the body's internal gravity-calibration software.
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