{"id":166096,"date":"2023-06-20T19:22:23","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T00:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/astronauts-that-hibernate-on-long-spaceflights-are-not-just-for-sci-fi-we-could-test-it-in-10-years"},"modified":"2023-06-20T19:22:23","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T00:22:23","slug":"astronauts-that-hibernate-on-long-spaceflights-are-not-just-for-sci-fi-we-could-test-it-in-10-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/astronauts-that-hibernate-on-long-spaceflights-are-not-just-for-sci-fi-we-could-test-it-in-10-years","title":{"rendered":"Astronauts that hibernate on long spaceflights are not just for sci-fi. We could test it in 10 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronauts-that-hibernate-on-long-spaceflights-are-not-just-for-sci-fi-we-could-test-it-in-10-years2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course, we need to finetune everything before we can apply it to humans. But I would say that 10 years is a realistic timeline,\u201d Ngo-Anh said.<\/p>\n<p>This fine-tuning is already underway. First studies have shown that it\u2019s possible to induce torpor in otherwise non-hibernating animals, such as rats, and bring them safely back to life a few days later. The process of triggering hibernation is rather intricate and involves reduced exposure to daylight and a period of intense feeding followed by a strict fast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOf course, we need to finetune everything before we can apply it to humans. But I would say that 10 years is a realistic timeline,\u201d Ngo-Anh said. This fine-tuning is already underway. First studies have shown that it\u2019s possible to induce torpor in otherwise non-hibernating animals, such as rats, and bring them safely back to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}