How hibernating animals are helping doctors treat diabetes and Alzheimer's
Doctors are investigating new treatments for many of the world’s toughest health disparities through animal hibernation. This isn’t the first time conditions made from hibernation has been used for medicine. In many hospitals patients that undergo cardiac arrest are put in a hibernating conditions, also known as therapeutic hypothermia, to lower the core body temperature of patients to slow metabolism. They also use these cooling method during operations and to put off the death of a patient that has lose a lot of blood. However, hibernation has been seen to do much more especially in regards to the health of the animal. It’s been observed that before hibernation, certain …show more content…
So given the right conditions, humans could possibly have similar effects of those animals that naturally hibernate. From Syrian Hamster, scientist hope to find new treatment strategies for pulmonary and cardiac disease for humans. From the Black bear, scientist hope to fully understand insulin resistance pathway and reverse the effect of diabetes in humans. However, the greatest discovery of hibernation research will be most beneficiary to those patients with degenerative brain conditions, such as dementia and Alzheimer's disease. When we learn new things or form new memories, our brain forms these synapses. However, patients that suffer from Dementia and Alzheimer’s disease memory deteriorates because these synapses disappear. They also have a difficult time forming new synapses. When entering hibernation, research shows that an animal’s brain deteriorates just like patients with Alzheimer’s and when these animals wake up the synapses are restored. In fact when hibernators wake up, they have a synapses overload, which is an overabundance of connections. So not only will hibernators be able to form new memory, they also restore memories from the past. By researching hibernation in animals, we have come
Doctors are investigating new treatments for many of the world’s toughest health disparities through animal hibernation. This isn’t the first time conditions made from hibernation has been used for medicine. In many hospitals patients that undergo cardiac arrest are put in a hibernating conditions, also known as therapeutic hypothermia, to lower the core body temperature of patients to slow metabolism. They also use these cooling method during operations and to put off the death of a patient that has lose a lot of blood. However, hibernation has been seen to do much more especially in regards to the health of the animal. It’s been observed that before hibernation, certain …show more content…
So given the right conditions, humans could possibly have similar effects of those animals that naturally hibernate. From Syrian Hamster, scientist hope to find new treatment strategies for pulmonary and cardiac disease for humans. From the Black bear, scientist hope to fully understand insulin resistance pathway and reverse the effect of diabetes in humans. However, the greatest discovery of hibernation research will be most beneficiary to those patients with degenerative brain conditions, such as dementia and Alzheimer's disease. When we learn new things or form new memories, our brain forms these synapses. However, patients that suffer from Dementia and Alzheimer’s disease memory deteriorates because these synapses disappear. They also have a difficult time forming new synapses. When entering hibernation, research shows that an animal’s brain deteriorates just like patients with Alzheimer’s and when these animals wake up the synapses are restored. In fact when hibernators wake up, they have a synapses overload, which is an overabundance of connections. So not only will hibernators be able to form new memory, they also restore memories from the past. By researching hibernation in animals, we have come