{"id":203233,"date":"2025-01-07T06:07:42","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T12:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/controlling-human-body-temperature-to-mimic-hibernation"},"modified":"2025-01-07T06:07:42","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T12:07:42","slug":"controlling-human-body-temperature-to-mimic-hibernation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/controlling-human-body-temperature-to-mimic-hibernation","title":{"rendered":"Controlling Human Body Temperature to Mimic Hibernation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UqMezcBQ8ko?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Summary: <\/strong>Researchers have discovered a way to control human body temperature, mimicking the hibernation process of animals like bears. By manipulating the brain\u2019s temperature regulation system, they can induce a state of \u201cthermoregulatory inversion\u201d (TI) in rats, reducing heat production even in cold environments.<\/p>\n<p>This breakthrough could lead to controlled hypothermia in humans, improving survival rates in life-threatening situations like heart attacks and strokes. The discovery opens the door to therapeutic hypothermia, which can protect tissues from damage by lowering metabolism and oxygen demand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Researchers have discovered a way to control human body temperature, mimicking the hibernation process of animals like bears. By manipulating the brain\u2019s temperature regulation system, they can induce a state of \u201cthermoregulatory inversion\u201d (TI) in rats, reducing heat production even in cold environments. This breakthrough could lead to controlled hypothermia in humans, improving survival [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203233","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}