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Hibernate for health
Groundhogs, hedgehogs, bears, and other hibernating animals manipulate their body processes to survive the long winter-or the long summer, in the case of the fat-tailed lemur.
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Groundhogs, hedgehogs, bears, and other hibernating animals manipulate their body processes to survive the long winter—or the long summer, in the case of the fat-tailed lemur. Now scientists say the furry ones' deep sleep could teach us valuable information about:
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- Keeping transplant organs viable. Squirrel organs stay healthy at cold temperatures for weeks.
- Protecting hearts from reperfusion. Animals don't experience cardiac damage during reperfusion when they wake from hibernation, unlike people after a heart attack.
- Fighting obesity. Hibernating mammals produce increased amounts of the appetite-killing hormone leptin before going into deep sleep.
- Avoiding diabetes. Hibernators don't develop the disease despite rapid pre-hibernation weight gain.
- Reversing brain damage from Alzheimer's disease. Hibernators periodically wake up and repair neural connections lost during torpor.
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