Is Human Hibernation Possible?

imhotep

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    Both ESA & NASA is spending on research into hibernation/cryosleep. There is also a theory that our Neanderthal ancestors may have in fact hibernated. There is evidence from bone leisons to suggest this. In some caves even bones of bears (who usually hibernate) was found with Neanderthal bones which shows the similar bone features which support this claim.
    Therapeutic Hyperthermia is used in the treatment of post Heart attack patients.
    Sometimes people who freeze have comeback to life. This is a case from Norway.

    "Anna Bagenholm was on a skiing holiday in Norway when she crashed head first into a frozen stream and became trapped under the ice. When rescuers finally arrived, the Swedish radiologist had been submerged for 80 minutes, and her heart and breathing had stopped. Doctors at Tromso University Hospital recorded a body temperature of 13.7C, the lowest ever observed in a victim of accidental hypothermia. By all accounts she appeared to have drowned. And yet, after careful rewarming and ten days spent in intensive care, Bagenholm woke up. She went on to recover almost fully from her cold brush with death. Under normal circumstances, even a few minutes trapped underwater would be enough to drown a person, and yet Bagenholm had survived for over an hour. Somehow the cold had preserved her."

    There are Indian Yogis who claim that they can go into self-induced hibernation.
     

    DjAnomaly

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  • Aug 13, 2018
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    Both ESA & NASA is spending on research into hibernation/cryosleep. There is also a theory that our Neanderthal ancestors may have in fact hibernated. There is evidence from bone leisons to suggest this. In some caves even bones of bears (who usually hibernate) was found with Neanderthal bones which shows the similar bone features which support this claim.
    Therapeutic Hyperthermia is used in the treatment of post Heart attack patients.
    Sometimes people who freeze have comeback to life. This is a case from Norway.

    "Anna Bagenholm was on a skiing holiday in Norway when she crashed head first into a frozen stream and became trapped under the ice. When rescuers finally arrived, the Swedish radiologist had been submerged for 80 minutes, and her heart and breathing had stopped. Doctors at Tromso University Hospital recorded a body temperature of 13.7C, the lowest ever observed in a victim of accidental hypothermia. By all accounts she appeared to have drowned. And yet, after careful rewarming and ten days spent in intensive care, Bagenholm woke up. She went on to recover almost fully from her cold brush with death. Under normal circumstances, even a few minutes trapped underwater would be enough to drown a person, and yet Bagenholm had survived for over an hour. Somehow the cold had preserved her."

    There are Indian Yogis who claim that they can go into self-induced hibernation.
    Buddhists monks (not pseudo monks) also practice hibernation called Nirodha Samapatti lasting for 7 days.