Human Hibernation?
Posted: 17 Nov 2019 08:26
I'm fed up with the cold cold weather, why can't humans hibernate?
Human hibernation doesn't exist for many reasons, but the reason is not quite as immediately obvious as you think.
Hibernation is a response to cold weather and reduced food availability. Most animals that hibernate are quite small and, as the weather gets cold, they reach the point they can't simply can't eat enough food to sustain their body
temperature.
Humans don't hibernate for two reasons. Firstly, our evolutionary were tropical animals with no history of
hibernating: humans have only migrated into temperature and sub-artic latitudes in the last hundred thousand
years ago or so. That's not quite long enough to evolve all the metabolic adaptions we would need to be able
to hibernate.
More importantly though, we discovered fire,clothes, shelter, hunting and agriculture, all of which are most
much more effective ways of surviving the cold.
I'm sure someone could build a glass dome city with heated in the horrid winter.
Im not giving it up !!
Can human's Hibernate? Idea may not ne crazy.
Occasionally, seemingly miraculous cases of humans going in and out of hibernation-like states are reported.
In 2006, for 2006 for example a 35-year-old man was rescued on a snowy mountain inJapan 24 days after doing
missing. He seemed to have survived by entering a state of nearly suspended animation: His organs had shut
down, his body temperature had dropped to 71 degrees, ans his metabolism had slowed almost to a standstill.
Subsequently, the man made a fully recovery.
How could this have extraordinary event occurred. Was the Japanese man really hibernating like a bear?
And is the ability to enter and wake from a prolonged slumber restricted to a lucky few individuals, or, in
the right circumstances, can we all do it?
In recent years, many scientists have come to believe that outlandish survival stories are not mere flukes or
media exaggerations, but rather manifestations of a latent ability to hibernate that humans possess.
Human hibernation doesn't exist for many reasons, but the reason is not quite as immediately obvious as you think.
Hibernation is a response to cold weather and reduced food availability. Most animals that hibernate are quite small and, as the weather gets cold, they reach the point they can't simply can't eat enough food to sustain their body
temperature.
Humans don't hibernate for two reasons. Firstly, our evolutionary were tropical animals with no history of
hibernating: humans have only migrated into temperature and sub-artic latitudes in the last hundred thousand
years ago or so. That's not quite long enough to evolve all the metabolic adaptions we would need to be able
to hibernate.
More importantly though, we discovered fire,clothes, shelter, hunting and agriculture, all of which are most
much more effective ways of surviving the cold.
I'm sure someone could build a glass dome city with heated in the horrid winter.
Im not giving it up !!
Can human's Hibernate? Idea may not ne crazy.
Occasionally, seemingly miraculous cases of humans going in and out of hibernation-like states are reported.
In 2006, for 2006 for example a 35-year-old man was rescued on a snowy mountain inJapan 24 days after doing
missing. He seemed to have survived by entering a state of nearly suspended animation: His organs had shut
down, his body temperature had dropped to 71 degrees, ans his metabolism had slowed almost to a standstill.
Subsequently, the man made a fully recovery.
How could this have extraordinary event occurred. Was the Japanese man really hibernating like a bear?
And is the ability to enter and wake from a prolonged slumber restricted to a lucky few individuals, or, in
the right circumstances, can we all do it?
In recent years, many scientists have come to believe that outlandish survival stories are not mere flukes or
media exaggerations, but rather manifestations of a latent ability to hibernate that humans possess.



