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In 1980, a woman named Jean Hilliard in rural northwest Minnesota was involved in a car accident that caused the car to fail in sub-zero temperatures. He walked 2 miles to a friend's house and collapsed 15 feet outside the door. The temperature dropped to −22 °F (−30 °C) and he was found "frozen solid" at 7 a.m. after six hours of cold. He was taken to Fosston Hospital where doctors said his skin was too hard to pierce with a hypodermic needle and his body temperature was too low to register on a thermometer. His face was ashen and his eyes were hard with no reaction to light. His pulse slowed to about 12 beats per minute.
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He was wrapped in an electric blanket.
The miracle that happened was that, 49 days after his admission, he was discharged from the hospital with no permanent damage to his brain or body apart from frostbite.
Some people wonder how this is possible, but scientists have explained it:
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There is at least one possible scientific explanation.
In the article "Is Human Hibernation Possible," published in 2008 by the Annual Review of Medicine, University of Texas Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Dr. Cheng Chi Lee noted that
"Some mammals can enter a severe hypothermic state during hibernation in which metabolic activity is extremely low, and yet fully recover when the animal awakens from such a state."
In the search for therapeutic uses of induced-hypothermia, Dr. Lee found a "natural biomolecule," 5' AMP, that "allows the rapid onset of hypometabolism in mammals" and that
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"Eventually that could lead to clinical applications where hypothermia has been shown to have enormous life-saving potential in trauma, heart attack, stroke and many major surgeries."
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It is possible that Hilliard froze so quickly that his body bypassed the stage where chronic tissue damage could occur and his body entered a hypometabolic state that allowed him to continue his basic life functions until he was successfully thawed.
Amazing, right?
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Source:
[1] When the 19-year-old was brought to the hospital, he froze. Then something inexplicable happened.
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