Can Humans Hibernate

The results although preliminary surprisingly suggest that they did even if they werent great at it.

Can humans hibernate. However we seem to have lost some of the key abilities. Medically induced hypothermic comas of up to two weeks have been used to treat brain injuries but tests on healthy humans are a long way off. You sleep until springtime.

The fact that large mammals such as bears and even primates such as the fat-tailed dwarf lemur of Madagascar can hibernate means that theoretically humans arent too big or energy-hungry to enter torpor. Evidence from bones found at one of the worlds most important fossil sites suggests that our hominid predecessors may have dealt with extreme cold. Currently humans cannot hibernate and cannot be induced to hibernate.

Its hard to know if this would be the same for humans. Even dwarf lemurs primates like us can similarly reduce their caloric needs to 2 percent by dropping their temperatures. You sit down at a table covered with giant dishes of your favorite foods.

Im quoting the full article here. Humans have only migrated into temperate and sub-arctic latitudes in the last hundred thousand years or so. Large mammals dont engage in textbook.

That suggests that at least some of the animals humans are descended from could hibernate. The notion of hibernating humans is appealing especially to those in cold climates but some experts dont want to put the cart before the horse. Hibernating mammals accumulate mucus in their lungs and suffer memory loss and suppressed immune systems.

But this has been overturned by experiments at Arizona University. When youre finally satisfied you wipe of your face go up to your bedroom and fall asleep. Yeah you heard that right.