Will Humans Ever Be Able to Hibernate?

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Do you ever feel so tired that you want to sleep for a few months? Scientists are searching for ways to cause human hibernation. Hosted by: Olivia Gordon ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters—we couldn't make SciShow without them! Shout out to Kevin Bealer, Mark Terrio-Cameron, KatieMarie Magnone, Patrick Merrithew, Charles Southerland, Fatima Iqbal, Benny, Kyle Anderson, Tim Curwick, Scott Satovsky Jr, Philippe von Bergen, Bella Nash, Bryce Daifuku, Chris Peters, Patrick D. Ashmore, Charles George, Bader AlGhamdi ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://mosaicscience.com/story/big-sleep http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b086s64v https://phys.org/news/2016-03-humans-hibernate.html http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2011/02/secrets-bear-hibernation https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/can-humans-hibernate-ask-the-dwarf-lemur/ https://phys.org/news/2013-05-primate-hibernation-common-previously-thought.html https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5010898/ https://pure.uva.nl/ws/files/1632134/118399_07.pdf https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/dec/21/japan.topstories3 Image Links: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cheirogaleus_adipicau

Published 2017-03-16 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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