Humans placed in suspended animation for the first time

Amazing stuff!

"Doctors have placed humans in suspended animation for the first time, as part of a trial in the US that aims to make it possible to fix traumatic injuries that would otherwise cause death. ... The technique, officially called emergency preservation and resuscitation (EPR), is being carried out on people who arrive at the University of Maryland Medical Centre in Baltimore with an acute trauma – such as a gunshot or stab wound – and have had a cardiac arrest. Their heart will have stopped beating and they will have lost more than half their blood. There are only minutes to operate, with a less than 5 per cent chance that they would normally survive.
EPR involves rapidly cooling a person to around 10 to 15°C by replacing all of their blood with ice-cold saline. The patient’s brain activity almost completely stops. They are then disconnected from the cooling system and their body – which would otherwise be classified as dead – is moved to the operating theatre.
A surgical team then has 2 hours to fix the person’s injuries before they are warmed up and their heart restarted."

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The Miracle Naked Mole Rat

Posted: 4/21/2017

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Just read Naked mole-rats turn into plants when oxygen is low.

The Miracles Of Live & Nature

Would you not like to be like a mole rat or have some of its benefits?

The miracles of mole rates are:

1. Extreme longevity. A mole rat lives up to 30 years or about 10 times longer than comparable rodents
2. They are highly resistant to cancer
3. They lack pain sensitivity in its skin
4. They have very low metabolic and respiratory rates
5. The only known mammal to use suspended animation to survive periods of oxygen deprivation (subject of the above article). Their brain cells start burning fructose, which produces energy anaerobically through a metabolic pathway that is only used by plants. The fructose was transported into brain cells by molecular fructose pumps that in all other mammals are found only on cells of the intestine