Chilling - The new method extends life

The story of the princess sleeping in the forest for hundreds of years and being awakened will no longer be a fairytale of the fairy world, but it is gradually existing before our eyes.

Enzymes and insects can survive in a harsh and cold environment while their lifespan is very short. That phenomenon led scientists, over the years, to go into the road to study the mechanism of keeping the body cold in an oxygen-deficient environment.

Successful experiments from storing life in low oxygen and low temperature environments not only provide answers to biological problems that can withstand harsh environments, but also open up a new direction of development. for modern medicine. In the future, the new cold-keeping method may help keep the human body asleep for many years and then suddenly wake up one day.

The story of the princess sleeping in the forest for hundreds of years and being awakened will no longer be a fairytale of the fairy world, but it is gradually existing before our eyes. Scientists at the Center for Cancer Research in Seattle, Washington, USA have recently successfully researched and deciphered the secret that life might return after the body freezes in an oxygen depletion.

According to the study, it is possible that life can wake up after a long process of being almost frozen, if it is carried out in accordance with the mechanism of life.

This means: scientists will have to make a person's body fall into a coma, then proceed to lower body temperature, causing the patient to fall into clinical death and freeze the body. Like chilling the living body. Thanks to this chilling process, it is possible to slow down the biological process that takes place in the body while maintaining life until it comes to ' wake up '.

Principle of cold holding process

Scientists found that: If they were in an oxygen-rich environment, most insects died after about 24 hours of exposure to the harsh freezing environment. However, if in an oxygen-deficient state, about 97% of self-protective earthworms are still able to survive.

Research by a team of scientists who explain the combination of low oxygen and low temperature environments (the environment used to preserve organ organs for transplantation) is a good environment to keep the take a break to rest until they are awakened to normal activities.

Dr. Roth also said that the fact that a living body is almost frozen in a cold environment can still return to normal life as a new scientific phenomenon. However, nothing cannot be explained. There have been many practical examples of cases of freezing people.

In them, the state of the heart has stopped beating and the body falls into clinical death. However, they can still go through these harsh conditions and with a reasonable emergency procedure, their bodies can still be awakened. When organs are stored waiting for transplantation, they are also put into the same state. In the absence of oxygen and the necessary coldness, the organs look dead and cannot function again.

But in fact, living cells temporarily stop working or activities slow down. When transplanted into a patient's body, these organs can still function normally.

Cases of survival after frostbite

In the winter of 2001, a Canadian woman, who had fallen victim to a cold and fainted in the cold of snow with an outdoor temperature down to pitch, fell into a deadly clinical state while under cover. of cold snow. The body temperature was then maintained at 16 ^o C and in a harsh condition seemed impossible to survive.

A surprise happened, a few days after the victim's body was found, emergency activities and body heating sought a little hope that helped this girl live again.

In another case, a Japanese climber named Mitsutaka Uchikoshi during a snow climb in 2006 fell and was buried under cold snow. 23 days later, this man was discovered when his body was frozen and his body temperature was 22 ^o C. Life returned to Uchikoshi after nearly a month of being buried under the thick snow was really making for scientists to be amazed.

And future applications

From the strange survival cases after many days of freezing to the experimental works that scientists have successfully conducted in the laboratory have opened great applications for the medical industry. Future.

Scientists hope to better understand the mechanism of revitalizing people with frostbite and apply in necessary cases. One of those applications is the prolongation of life for seriously injured patients, blood loss or cases of heart attack shock .

In emergencies that may not be timely emergency or to the emergency department take a long time due to a variety of reasons, if the patient continues to suffer pain under normal conditions and wait until granted Save, it may be too late.

However, if cooling is used and the body temperature is kept low in the absence of oxygen until emergency, the patient will have more chances of survival.

This will be a great application that science brings from the study of life-free cooling mechanisms.