Leave Sleeping Bears Lie?

- 1712  -  Sleeping Bears, have some good things going for them.  Humans could learn from them to avoid many diseases.

----------------- - 1712  -  Sleeping Bears, have some good things going for them.
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-  Wake up a Grizzly Bear and you have an angry animal to deal with.  He would prefer to sleep as long as 8 months, depending on the length of winter.  So, don’t disturb him.
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-  When your resources are low be like a bear and hibernate.   Sleep replaces all eating and activity.  This technique also works after a Christmas dinner and too much wine.
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- When you hibernate blood flow to the brain reduces to 10% of normal.  The same thing happens with video games.
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-  Bears can handle it, but , if that happened during “normal” for humans it would be a “stroke“.  But, under hibernation sleep your metabolism is so slow no brain damage occurs.
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-  This same result also occurs if your body temperature is brought down to near freezing.  People’s lives have been saved from drowning in a frozen lake because the fell through the ice and could be rescued several minutes after they had stopped breathing.
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-  Bears store 100 pounds extra of fat and have no activity during hibernation but somehow avoid diabetes.  They can continue to regulate insulin burning glucose at a reduced rate.
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-  Bears are totally inactive, lying in their den for months, but they avoid bone deteriorating.  Somehow during hibernation they recycle bone even while asleep.  If humans could do this they could avoid osteoporosis disease.
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-  When your body is exercising your metabolism is aerobic and you are burning sugars.  When you heart beat slows down and your body switches to anaerobic metabolism you start burning fat.  A side effect of this change can be a build up of lactic acid  ( That is why you do a “ cool down” after exercise.)
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-  Hibernating animals can do this change in metabolism without producing lactic acid that can kill body cells.  During cardiac surgery doctors would like to learn how to keep the patient at low oxygen ( no heart beat ) without building up lactic acid that injures organs during the procedure.
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-  Grizzly bears have some thing going for them that we need to learn.  Stay tuned, see what’s next.  Bears could teach us how to avoid strokes, diabetes, osteoporosis, heart disease and video games.
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