Related Exhibits for Wellness

Science and health content: Your heart is a muscle. Exercise your heart.
After inserting his or her Peak Pass, the visitor pedals a virtual-reality stationary bike along a simulated mountain trail. Onscreen, the visitor’s heart rate is displayed with his or her target heart rate (determined by age and gender from the Peak Pass database).

Science and health content: Kidneys concentrate blood at altitude. Stay hydrated.
Visitors compare two containers filled with liquid representing the volume of urine produced during a normal day in Denver and during a day spent climbing Mount Evans. A video describes the phenomenon, called diuresis that concentrates your red blood cells and increases your urine output over the first day or so at altitude.

Science and health content: Genetics, age, and environment influence body size.
After swiping the Peak Pass, visitors spread their arms wide to have their height and reach captured on video and displayed real-time on a large video monitor. The visitor’s height and arm span data are plotted on a graph and displayed onscreen at a computer kiosk.

Science and health content: Digestion. Nutrient absorption.
What happens to the food you eat? From the esophagus through the rectum, visitors trace the fascinating progress of a granola bar as it goes on an expedition of its own through the human digestive system.

Science and health content: Balanced nutrition. Eat smart. Fuel your body with a balanced diet.
Visitors choose food to fuel their buddy’s expedition to the top of the mountain in this lively touch screen computer interactive. Along the way, visitors learn why a balanced diet is crucial to good health.

Science and health content: Muscle form and function. Exercise your muscles.
Visitors attempt to make their way along a shallow ledge at the bottom of a horizontal climbing wall that turns two corners, trying to stay on as long as possible.

Science and health content: Your body uses and needs water. Stay hydrated.
Visitors compare cylinders of water and try to guess how much water is eliminated daily from perspiring, breathing, defecating, and urinating, even when you’re not working hard. Flip labels display the correct—and surprising—answers.

Science and health content: Microbes live on your body. Hygiene and genetics.
At this exhibit, visitors find photos of the expedition buddies paired with photos of microbe colonies from each buddy’s foot. A real agar gel plate with live bacteria colonies provides a vivid point of comparison. Visitors can identify common types of bacteria by comparing what they see on the plate with photos.

Science and health content: Body movement, stride, and speed. The more you move the more energy you use.
In this interactive, the visitor’s walking silhouette is captured on video and displayed in motion on projection screens, surrounded by moving silhouettes of other visitors. Stride length, speed, and an energy score are captured for each visitor, and they are challenged to move more and in different ways to get a higher energy score. 

Science and health content: How sunblock works, what UV does to skin cells. Detect skin cancer early.
In this interactive, visitors spread sunblock lotion on a hand and examine it under parallel cameras—one is standard video and the other uses ultraviolet (UV) light.

Science and health content: Skin type influences UV sensitivity. UV increases with altitude.
In this touch screen computer interactive, visitors select their hair and eye color and their skin type. They then investigate further, comparing how much time they could spend in the sun without burning given today’s UV–index conditions both at DMNS and atop Mount Evans. They can also select different sunblock SPF levels to compare their protective effects.

Science and health content: Top ten injuries/illnesses that occur on expeditions. The biological processes that heal them.
Visitors learn the amazing ways that the body heals itself at the cellular level in this fun, engaging touch screen computer interactive. Visitors view and choose among the top ten injuries and illnesses that occur on expeditions, presented in playful cartoon-style animations.

Science and health content: The consequences of lifestyle choices on aging.
What will you look like years from now? A lot depends on your lifestyle choices. An age-progression computer program allows visitors to see themselves age over time under normal circumstances and as influenced by smoking, UV exposure, or obesity.

Science and health content: Everyone has a unique health story. Optimize your health.
Visitors record their own stories on video to share with family, friends, and other visitors or to view later on the Web. Visitors can also choose to view health optimization stories from the expedition buddies and other Expedition Health visitors.

Battle Bacteria
Visitors compare the ability of different soaps to kill bacteria.

Food Chemistry
Visitors test the sugar content of various cereals.

Drug Impacts
Visitors test the effects of common drugs on heart rate using small aquatic crustaceans called Daphnia, also known as water fleas.