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A Japanese man lost and unconscious in a remote mountain area for 24 days still survived. The doctors thought this was because his body was in a hibernation state like animals.

Mitsutaka Uchikoshi, 35, disappeared on October 7, after climbing Rokko (western Japan) with friends. When discovered on October 31, his pulse did not beat, the internal organs stopped working and his body temperature dropped to 22 degrees C. The metabolism in his body seemed to stop.

Mitsutaka Uchikoshi (Photo: AP)

Uchikoshi falls and falls unconscious after leaving the group to go down the mountain alone.'I lay down on a lawn, felt very comfortable in the warm sun, and then fell asleep,' Uchikoshi said at a hospital in Kobe, where he was treated. 'That is the last thing I can remember'.

Uichikoshi's body temperature was reduced when he was in the cold about 10 degrees Celsius. So his metabolism slowed down.

'He was in a low temperature from the very beginning, similar to hibernation,' said Dr. Shinichi Sato, who treated Uchikoshi. 'So, his brain activity protected, harmless and now 100% recovered '.

Uchikoshi went home and went home Tuesday. Professor Hirohito Shiomi, an expert on hibernation at a Hiroshima university, commented that this case is 'revolutionary', if the patient actually survived with such a low body temperature during the time period. so long. '

For years, scientists have argued that it is possible to hibernate people, to slow the death of cells when treating non-healing temporary diseases.

MC