Can humans hibernate? | Vladyslav Vyazovskiy | TEDxLimassol
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- Опубліковано 3 чер 2024
- The question "could humans hibernate?" is among very few big questions that still remain on a strong footing both in the domains of science and science fiction. The possibility of human hibernation has profound implications - from emergency medicine and longevity to long-distance space travel and surviving environmental disasters. Have we, humans, lost the capacity to hibernate, or we simply forgot how to do it?
Vladyslav Vyazovskiy is a professor of sleep physiology. He graduated from Kharkiv National University in 1997, and in 2004 he received his PhD degree at the University of Zurich. Following postdoctoral and lectureship positions at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Surrey University, he joined the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics at the University of Oxford in 2013 as a Senior Research Fellow, before becoming Associate Professor of Neuroscience in 2015 and Professor of Sleep Physiology in 2021. Since 2020, he is a Tutorial Fellow in Medicine at Hertford College, and is a member of Sir Jules Thorn Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute (SCNi) and Oxford's Kavli Institute for Nanoscience Discovery.. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
I can. Starts sometime end of October and ends sometime in April. Thankfully no one at work notices.
Believe me, the time I spend in bed already counts as hibernating.
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Same 😂
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I hibernate every winter! I think eons ago man DID hibernate in the dark winter months. To conserve energy. Not completely but like a squirrel.
La consapevolezza che ha di ciò che ha vissuto è strabiliante e credo sia un enorme passo in avanti verso la ripresa della sua vita. Istintivamente darei un grosso abbraccio ad Alessandro, interminabile. Spero con tutto il cuore che torni presto a vivere a pieno la sua vita.
Hibernation can be achieved. In India we have heard stories of Rishis and sages who have been hibernating for many many years in the Himalayas in hidden places.... Although there is no evidence I think to actually prove this but I believe in our culture and think it is possible and there are many still there hibernating.✌️
I think they hooked a heart monitor to a monk and he lowered his heart rate to near zero. Mind body, once complete integration is established, genes can be turn on and off.
People, quiet down! I'm hibernating!
_I bet you are watching this with one leg over the other !_
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It's called *hibernation* and it is *art* 😅
Omg - we're soul mates, you know me
“I am the girl who spends hours huddled in a corner of a library, trying to find what you love the most about Marlowe, just so I can write you a poem worthy of Shakespeare. I've made books my lovers, hours my enemies and you the only story.”
― Nikita Gill
Imagine if we can hibernate plus physically stagnate ourselves to preserve and somewhat live longer too would be scientific breakthrough honestly, but that would be fictional science, well for now at least we may nvr know... 🧐
Thank you for interesting talk!Human to hibernate is as to die,...fig😍✝️🌏🙏🙏🙏
I need to hibernate so bad
I hibernate every winter 🤷🏼♀️
Bare minimum, I think humans weren’t built to be as active in Winter as we are in the other 3 seasons.
Humans aren’t built for the winter, period. Our ancestry comes from tropical regions.
Yes
Now that you have taken up residence here in the Fabulous world, carve out time for yourself. Anchor a new habit that validates what solitude can give you. It can be as little as a minute a day.
Catch your reflection and don’t look away. Notice how you’re feeling. Give yourself a few minutes of self-care, where you sit down and soothe dry skin or think quietly while you fold clothes. Spend time outside without your phone. Is the sky empty of clouds today? Notice which plants are bursting and which are waiting to bloom.
Tune out everything else and tune into yourself.
thank you.
I'm very much in hibernation right now.
I'd like to volunteer for hibernation experiment!!!!
Me Too!!
Im hibernating right now
The Sichort State is the answer to achieving human hibernation.
Yes we can because I'm always in bed 24/7 the whole year
I hibernated one winter, it was great, but brutal for my roommate in a capitalist society.
Man’s ability to make fire and clothes to protect ourselves from the cold, and store food for long periods gave us an advantage over other species. We were able to reproduce, hunt, gather and be productive over the winter, while all the other species were hibernating or pseudo hibernating. Hibernating puts us at a disadvantage. Unless we all agree to do it, it’s too risky. Unless you make a passive income. If you can earn a passive income (I.e. investment, dividends, royalties, outsourcing the management of a business).
But what if we lived in a global society where we all agreed to hibernate? No one charged rent. All transactions were ‘frozen’ and put on hold for X months. All nonessential production stopped. Universal basic income for X months.
Maybe that could be a strategy to reverse climate change?
Of course it won’t work, because we can’t trust each other from nation to nation and person to person. Our inability to work toward a common good is what inevitably will lead to the end of our species.
Can coma be considered as hibernation? Lol
Tho, Interesting Ted talk after a while
I slept a lot more in winter, if that counts
If anything this proves that the youth mentioned in the Surah Al Kahf in the Quran were possibly hibernating in the real sense. What the doctor's immense time spent in this field has also taught us is the reason the youth of the Cave were unable to clearly describe how long they were 'asleep.'
And so upon waking up, we don’t aged at all. We can only dream 😴
Cliffs = no
No, I'm a care homework for nearly 20 years. I've dealt with coma patients which the physical aspect of things is very similar to hibernation.
Within a rather short period Of time you will experience what is commonly referred to as bed sores. worst-case scenario could will lead to gangrene.
Blood clots will form, being stationary results in the poor circulation. These blood clots are life-threatening.
if a person is stationery for extended Time, you have muscle degradation and cramps like you've never experienced before. Pain in which most people cannot imagine. The torture method of being crucified. The actual torture is not the nails in your hand but rather not being able to move your muscles. It is one of the most top painful ways to die because of that reason.
Then there's the obvious, your heart. Ask any personal trainer, coach or extreme sports nut. Millions of people are at extreme risk or are dying weak Hearts mostly caused by sitting around too much. These people actually do get up, to the bathroom, to the fridge, back to the couch. That's not enough to keep your heart healthy and you living.
That's just the physical aspects. I don't have training in the mental aspects of things. That's a whole nother can of worms.
You're absolutely 100% correct about what happens to us in a coma, or on life support for whatever reason. Our bodies were not meant to endure that in such a way and the problems arise quickly and intensely.
However, looking at the idea of hibernation from a natural standpoint for our species could have very different effects. Just like he said, it would be most beneficial to discover the ways in which we may naturally trigger a type of hibernation that may have been long lost to time and possible for our ancestors. Trying to find a way to scientifically achieve hibernation just to induce such a state could have many problems. Attempting to fundamentally understand it on a genetic level via unlocking it from our past history in some way would be the most viable solution.
In that scenario our bodies may respond to survival in ways we typically could not thrive, perhaps in the areas of temperature regulation, normal digestion and metabolic processes, brain activity, muscular dystrophy as well as how our epidermis and dermis maintain themselves in a full hibernation. I would like to think we would be able to handle and survive many things that we normally absolutely could not in a non-hibernating sleep and wake cycle.
biologically, all of the things you mention are addressed by hibernating animals through their genes. They produce proteins which inhibit blood clotting, suppress the immune system, preserve muscle cells, etc... Hibernating animals are also quite vulnerable to bacterial/viral disease and predators. Both of those things we can address much better than they can naturally. Additionally, virtually all mammals possess these genes, however the epigenetic switches are no longer used in many of them. You very well could model how those genes are expressed in animals which do hibernate, and synthetically activate them in a similar way; such technologies already exist.
I would love to do this until they find a way to reset brain from drug abuse and find a cure for mental issues
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It can happens hahaha
Pronounciaton bolna seekh pahle 😂😂