Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine - Sawbones: Reanimation
Episode Date: October 25, 2013Welcome to Sawbones, where Dr. Sydnee McElroy and her husband Justin McElroy take you on a whimsical tour of the dumb ways in which we've tried to fix people. This week: THE DEAD WILL WALK. Music: "Me...dicines" by The Taxpayers (http://thetaxpayers.net)
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Wow! Hello everybody and welcome to Saw Bones bones a marital tour of misguided medicine. I am your co-host Justin McElroy and I'm Sydney McElroy
Sid we're coming up on November 8th. It's just around the corner. Oh big day big day
It's my big special day turning the big three three. Oh
It's my big special day turning the big three three
Palandrome it once again. What do you get when you turn 33 like what this art bird or glass?
Oh, it's the glass birthday. It's the glass birthday
No, I actually decided what I want and I know you know
It took me a while and I've been
Revising a lot of lists, but I think I'm finally I think I I finally know what it is. I think I finally put my finger on it.
Well, that's good,
because I buy you everything you tell me
that you want and then you change your mind.
So it's a great ploy.
What will we add to the list?
We will, here's what we'll add to the list.
I wanna meet Andy Rooney.
Andy Rooney?
Yeah, Andy Rooney from 60 minutes
used to do these hysterical monologues.
And I want to meet him.
It seemed like towards the end, everything was really confusing for Andy Rooney, everything
in the world today.
Right.
I remember that.
And I, I now, I mean, I am a hip.
I'm 33.
I understand the world. I'm plugged in, I guess you could say.
Right, and he needed a lot of help. Do you remember how confused he was by all the produce?
He was very confused in that one we saw where he was so confused by all the different kinds of produce that were now available.
I feel like I could help Andy Rooney get the swing of things. I could be his sherpa through this modern world.
To be fair, he also seemed kind of angry
about all the produce that was available.
Like maybe, maybe we've over complicated things.
In his day, he was lucky if he could get half a crab apple.
Now we got everything, kind of,
rambutan, pomegranates,
SIE, everything.
Oranges. Oranges.
Oranges.
So I want to meet, what?
What?
Oranges.
Yeah, oranges.
Oranges are great fruits.
They're underrated.
Yeah, I think he was probably wicked into oranges.
I really just got into oranges this year.
So maybe Andy Rooney didn't know about them yet.
Maybe he wasn't plugged into oranges.
What I'm saying is I want to meet Andy Rooney. And I want think that's true. I didn't think that's true.
I didn't think that's true.
I didn't think that's true.
I didn't think that's true.
I didn't think that's true.
I didn't think that's true.
I didn't think that's true.
I didn't think that's true.
I didn't think that's true.
I didn't think that's true.
I didn't think that's true. I didn't think that's true. I didn't think that's true but I figured you'd have a fix. Oh, oh, you know, you know that he's already passed away.
Yeah, yeah, I know he's passed away. I just want to meet him.
I want to meet Andy Rooney.
I mean, like, do you want me to set up some kind of like video clips, like Home Alone style,
where it's kind of like Andy Rooney's talking to you, but really I'm just pausing it at specific moments in the conversation.
Do you want me to do one of those?
Cause I couldn't do that.
But I bet I could pay for it too.
I get into that count I tend to get your no good
stinking cockas.
I don't know.
One, two, ten.
Okay, homelone everybody.
Still relevant.
Still relevant after all these years.
No, I want to be in any rooting.
I want you to bring it back to life for me so I can meet him.
Now you understand that that's not a thing that doctors do.
Well, it doesn't mean they haven't tried though, right?
I mean, this is something that we have wanted to do for ages.
I mean, it's one of our most popular myths.
I think you could say in a lot of cultures
is that we bring someone back from the dead.
Well, I think that's fair to say.
Certainly, because we are constantly faced
with the idea of mortality,
ways to overcome that and theories and myths and legends and then actual maybe even
experimentation with bringing the dead back to life certainly has occurred.
I'm assuming judging by the fact that the world has not delivered Elvis back
unto us that this is not because he's not gone but exactly right. I'm assuming
that this hasn't been successful yet. No, not so much.
How do we get started? The quest for reanimation, as it were, you know, spiritually dates back
thousands of years, but let's not get into that, because that's not my realm. We should mention,
by the way, this is our spooky Halloween episode of As Zombies. Much like the History Channel,
episode of As Zombies. Much like the History Channel, we like to take,
we like to take the entire month of October off
to stop telling the truth.
This is something we've remarked on several times
during every Halloween season.
The History Channel just takes a break.
It's not history anymore.
The Weird Stuff Channel.
The Weird Stuff Channel.
I mean, there's a history of vampires.
No, there's not.
No.
This is our show, The History of Werewolves. There's no history of werewolves. There's no werewolves, so there's a history of vampires. No, there's not. No. This is our show, the history of werewolves.
There's no history of werewolves.
No werewolves, so there's no history of them.
That's not a thing.
What are you talking about?
They do a lot of aliens.
A lot of aliens.
And they have, there are a lot of ancient alien,
like theorists, a lot of people who claim
that that's their profession.
And I have to imagine that that's your hobby
and that like your profession is working at Best Buy.
I don't know.
Well, your profession is selling books to dollars.
Your profession is something else
because who is making a living off of being an ancient alien?
I have to imagine that.
The story.
I heard that history is doing a show called Ancient Aliens
and they thought, oh, I gotta give me some
of that.
Yeah, me, expert.
I've got this great hair and this mustache.
I'm kind of, I'm ready.
Said 1700s.
Take it back.
Okay.
So the 1700s, and as I said, we're going to stick to scientific attempts at reanimation
because, darn it, Justin, I'm a doctor, not a spiritual leader.
Not a spiritual leader.
Not a history channel.
The first one to probably experiment with reanimation was Lazaro Spalanzani, who was actually
a priest.
He was fascinated with the idea that we could bring the dead back to life, perhaps.
But he didn't really do much in an effort to actually achieve that goal,
other than cut the heads off snails and wait to see if they would grow back.
So he's basically a 13-year-old boy. But with high aspirations. Yeah, and the ability
to turn bread into the flesh of Jesus Christ. Right, big dreams, big goals. Big
superpowers. Pretty much it just didn't, didn't achieve much,
but at least he was thinking about it.
Yeah, in a sciencey way.
Head his head on the, eyes on the prize, as it were.
In the 1700s, we also meet Johann Dippel,
which I'm sure you know who that is.
I know, I'm absolutely not.
Well, most would claim that he is, you know, the real Dr. Frankenstein.
Oh, the, like you mean the one that inspired Mary Shelley to write a famous book?
Exactly.
And we'll cover this in great detail because you can't talk about bringing the dead back
to life and not talk about Frankenstein.
But, and there were many inspirations, but the one that was known as the Dr. Frankenstein, well, not
in this time, but later, was Johann Dippel.
Now to be fair, he was, if anything that he was really good at, it was robbing graves.
He did a lot of that.
Yeah.
Well, that's Step one.
You got to start somewhere.
Right.
From the ground up.
So he would, he would rob graves.
From the ground up. But him, thanks would rob graves he would from the ground up.
But I'm sure thanks. That was a good one. Thanks. Well.
Keep working on it. I'll keep workshopping it. I'll come up. You'll get there. I'll get there. It's a good you got a good start.
I'm trying to do ground up.
Haha. That's better. Is that what you needed? I need a laugh track. I need to be operative for absolutely. I need that. I do need a laugh track.
Sorry, I keep derailing you.
What did he do besides Rob Graves?
That's step one.
I can do that.
So he took parts of the corpses and the belief is that he was
taking them back to his lab and applying different
elixirs to them and chopping them up and applying different,
you know, I don't know, connecting them in different ways
and trying to bring them back to life,
like re-sowing people back together.
In reality, what he was probably trying to do
was make some sort of elixir out of corpses
to extend his own life eternally.
And that's how we got Pepsi.
That's the story of Pepsi.
That's the story of Pepsi, happy Halloween. That's not true. That's the story of Crystal Pepsi. That's the story of Pepsi. Happy Halloween. That's not true. That's the story of crystal Pepsi.
That's the story of crystal Pepsi. It's made from corpses. That's not drink easy. Late 80s.
That's not true. Please don't sue us Pepsi. Please don't sue us Pepsi. Yes, he definitely took
bodies back to his layer and it has to be if you're taking corpses back.
Even if you start with like a cozy long glow, this is my sunroom. No, it's not. It's a layer.
There are corpses. Once you are robbing graves and taking bodies back to your house, it's a layer.
You should start calling the morgue at the hospital, the layer. The layer. Take it down to the layer.
Justin saw the the morgue in the hospital for the first
time. Just walked past the door. They just leave the door out there labeled Borg for anybody
to see. Completely freaked out. I get spooked. This is why I try to keep him out of my work
place. So he wasn't very successful other than an inspiring, I guess, a great, you know,
literary genius. Otherwise, not so much in reanimating
the dead.
When we get into people who actually did something in this effort, Luigi Galvani is probably
our first scientist.
Not familiar, tell me about him.
So he was an Italian doctor, he was also a physicist.
And in 1771, he noticed, this is the kind of, again, a lot of these stories are probably
apocryphal.
We don't really know, is this really how this happened, but it's a great story, and so
we're going to tell it.
So he noticed, he was working with static electricity.
And he, the way that he was working with it is he was skinning frogs and using their skin
to, it somehow, there were electrical charges building up on the frog skin.
And I don't know why that's how he got to that, but there you go.
So he was skinning frogs in his kitchen or lab or let's hope lab.
And he accidentally picked up, well he picked up his scalpel unbeknownst to him that it was
electrically charged from all of the ions from the stack electricity that he was you know studying
And as he placed it on the the exposed frog muscle
He touched the sciatic nerve of the frog and when he did that it made the leg jump out
Can you imagine
Back before we understood like nerves and the electrical signals that our body sends
how scared, just the worst thing that could happen to you, right then.
You have to think the frogs coming back for vengeance.
You have to. No, it's like skidding around on the ground, looking for the rest of its body to
reattach, do you like T2? Don't talk about T2 before bed, that scares me.
Yeah, okay. I'm terrified of the second terminator. I had the liquid one. Don't talk about T2 before bed, that scares me. Okay.
I'm terrified of the second terminator, the liquid one.
I don't know.
I'll protect you.
That's even more frightening.
So he noticed this frog leg jump and he thought, okay, there's some kind of inherent
like animal electricity that causes, you know, our muscles to work. And obviously we can stimulate it with some,
with other electricity, with external electricity.
You know, we can kind of create a circuit.
So he came up with the idea of using external electrical currents,
you know, electrodes, sticking them on dead things and making them move.
This was another inspiration for Mary Shelley.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, all this was going on, as you'll see,
as we move forward, his nephew kind of picks up his work,
and all this was going on in the time of Mary Shelley.
So she was, you know, there is no one person
who probably inspired Frankenstein,
but all of this scientific research was being done
and publicized and everybody was talking about it right before she wrote, you know, Frankenstein.
So, like I said, he starts this work and it became known as galvanism. You may have heard that term.
Her galvanized. That's the same. all these different terms for different things and you know
Electric electricity. I don't know. We're going into physics. That's not my area. All right, but they all come from Luigi Galvani
He also has a crater of the moon named after him
What's it called?
Like the crater of galvani. What do you think? Well, you left a lull in there. I thought it might be something interesting
No, he don't you think it Well, you left a lull in there. I thought it might be something interesting. No, what do you think?
It was, it's called Joe.
Joe the crater.
Joe the crater, name for Luigi Galvani.
Joe the crater, Luigi Galvani joint.
It's called Frog Leg.
Frog leg, the crater.
The crater.
So, kind of, like I said, this work was picked up
because Luigi Galvani fell on hard times.
A lot of his work was criticized because other people kind of picked up what he was doing,
investigated it further and said, I don't think these animals have electricity in them.
I think these kind of tubes that run through their bodies, nerves, they didn't know what
they were at the time, maybe transmit some kind of, you know, can transmit like an electrical
impulse, but there's not inherent electric activity in the muscles and kind of, you know, can transmit like an electrical impulse, but there's not
inherent electric activity in the muscles and kind of took the theory to the more in the correct
direction. But his and anyway, then he went through some bad times and ended up dying to press
an impoverty, which is too bad, but he got a crater of the moon named back to him. It's better than
I'm probably going to do. Why would you say something like that?
I don't know.
I'd just be like, want a crater.
I'm hoping it's going to be a little bad for me.
I'll name a moon crater.
I'll buy you a star.
That'll do.
Okay.
So his nephew picked up his work.
His nephew Giovanni Aldini was the one who really went on to kind of, I don't want to
say fame, maybe notoriety, for his experiments with electricity and dead things.
He started off with stimulating dead animals,
same way that his uncle did.
But that wasn't enough for a Giovanni.
He craved more.
He craved more.
I mean, if these techniques could be applied to animals,
one in particular, a baboon,
he would make its eyes open and its mouth grimace in front of crowds and that terrified people after it was dead, obviously.
Yeah, right.
So he decided to start experimenting on humans.
Ah, yeah.
Now, it's, you know.
Now it's gonna spooky.
It's the late 1700s, early 1800s,
you want to do human experimentation.
There's a group of people you're allowed to experiment on at this time.
Criminals.
Exactly.
Yes.
So it was totally okay for you to experiment on the bodies of criminals who died
either through execution or natural causes.
That was completely acceptable at the time.
Why not?
And you could actually pay kind of sponsor criminals who were dying, say like you
would pay one of the beetles, you know, one of them, whatever they were, the officials.
Oh, okay. Yes. I was super confused for a second.
Not like the bug.
Well, I was thinking like, Ringo, why would I pay on the carton for a body?
I'm gonna be like, little nom-fuck,
fact, John Lennon, Dalton bodies.
So, yeah.
And Pepsi's made out of corpses.
Yeah.
This is what you're learning today.
So you could pay one of the Beatles,
one of the judicial officials, whatever,
to get the body after it was dead.
No.
I'm sure it was a reasonably priced.
And you could pay them to kind of rush things along.
So one of the most famous cases was George Forster.
Have you ever heard of him?
No.
I'm sorry.
You always disappoint me.
So he was put to death by hanging
for the murder of his wife and child.
It's actually interesting, the history channel
in one of their fake histories does a whole special on this,
where they questioned whether or not
he really was a murderer.
Oh great, good job humanity.
And that maybe it was all a setup.
And then they talk about how it was a real life Frankenstein
because he was brought back to life, except he wasn't.
He may or may not have been a murderer, he died by hanging,
and then he was handed
over to Giovanni who stuck a bunch of electrodes in him and made him do all kind, made his
body do all kinds of things. He made his face contort and terrible ways. He made his legs
move up and down. His arm raised up at one point and clenched its fist and he did this
in front of people and wrote big reports around about it and everybody freaked out and
thought, oh my gosh. Giovanni found a way to bring the dead back to life.
Because they're close.
I mean, to someone in that time period, it had to seem like we were, you know, had almost
nailed it.
Right.
I mean, you know, it seemed like that made sense.
Like, here's somebody who clearly is dead.
We watched him die.
I mean, his, you know, we watched his neck snap and now his eyes are open and his arm just moved.
He also did a lot of experiments on the heads of criminals just using human heads
Which again, I just think it all sounds very gruesome at some point
He had to have realized he wasn't bringing these people back to life
And then I don't know what he was doing
But I'm sure it was a great side show. Yeah. And like I said,
it's a pain for the research somehow. All of this was going on in the time of Mary Shelley.
And I think this is really interesting. So she was hearing all of this stuff and she ended
up writing Frankenstein in the year 1816. A series of events probably led to this book being written that I think are really cool.
So in 1815 Mount Tambora, which was a volcano in Indonesia, erupted, and it caused these like
worldwide temperature shifts. So all over the world got colder for a solid year following this
eruption. And 1816 is known as the year without a Summer. That is so strange that you mentioned the Year Without a Summer
because that is a small plot point in the new book by Elizabeth Gilbert
then reading the signature of all things.
I didn't know that.
Yeah, that she talks about that.
So I have recently thought about the Year Without a Summer.
By the way, great book, if you haven't read it,
she's a great fund, a max fund that work
and an overall cool lady, so read her book.
So check out her book.
Anyway, 1816, year without a summer, Mary Shelley.
So Mary Shelley and her lover, Percy Bish,
later husband, before her husband,
at he was her lover, and they went to the...
She's gandiness. Oh my And they went to the... Oh my.
They went to their lake house to spend the summer,
but it was very cold and wet,
and it wasn't a lot of fun to be outside.
So instead, they decided to hang out inside all the time
and have a story writing contest.
I'd say she won.
She probably won.
Because she wrote Frankenstein.
Yeah.
Well, I wrote something good to sort of a adventure of a king
and there's dragon. It's a cool book. Hey, check this out. Frankenstein.
Mm, Frankenstein. That's good. Lots of people have heard of that book. But mine.
Well, nobody had heard of it then. Then they time traveled into the future.
Realized how popular it would be.
Time traveled back to 1816.
To be fair, you would go to those links to win an argument with me.
So that makes sense.
Yeah, that's totally fair.
So a lot of these should be noted that these experiments continued.
Professor A. Hosh continued them on criminals.
And this really, if there was any science of reanimation
throughout the 17, 1800s, this is all that was being done.
Just shock people.
We thought electricity had something to do with life.
And so maybe if we just keep applying it to dead people,
they'll come back to life.
Eventually.
It wasn't until the 1950s that we actually had
like any other ideas on how to reanimate people when James Lovelock started dropping rats in freezing
cold water. Which sounds like something you'd like to do. Yeah, as long as I didn't have to touch
them or see them. Perfect.
But you'd just like the idea that somebody's doing it somewhere.
Someone is drowning rats.
Somebody is eliminating rats for you.
Yeah.
And then he would try to bring them back to life.
He knew that for some reason, if somebody was not just dead, but really cold and dead,
that maybe you could like preserve their cells and then bring them back to life.
And what's the obvious way? If somebody's cold, how would you want to warm them up? Blanket. Nope.
Hug.
Try again. Hugs.
It is your rat.
Hug the rat.
Hug the rat.
Breathe on it.
How about a warm spoon?
Perfect. Good job.
So he would warm up a spoon and hold it to their little rat chest.
That is, man,
it is always hard to explain in-depth scientific research. But if your kid walks in on that,
that's got to be a tough one to sort of walk with it. No, well, I thought if I heated up
the spoon, you know, saying it out loud now, I feel a little silly. You're right. This
is kind of a goofy idea. It inspired a lot of research and to be fair the idea that
Frozen tissues are better preserved is true. I
Don't know about the whole morme spoon
No me neither but neither did James Lovelock that didn't stop him. Oh
It should be noted. We kind of jumped ahead to the 50s
But in the 40s the Soviet Union they did not make any
Progress in reanimation, but they definitely wanted us to think they did 50s, but in the 40s, the Soviet Union, they did not make any progress in reanimation,
but they definitely wanted us to think they did. So they came up with a great video. It's on YouTube,
you can check it out called Experiments in the Revival of Organisms. And as, when Justin and I
watch this, he pointed out that it is entirely in English that is easy to understand, which tells you exactly who they wanted to hear
this video.
Yes, us.
Yes.
So, in this video, Soviet scientists have like a heart, a dog's heart that's hooked up to
tubes and they show it beating.
Then they have some lungs that are hooked up to some other tubes and they show them, you
know, insufflating and closing and, you know, they're working basically as the idea.
And then the culmination of the video is a dog's head that, again, hooked up to some tubes for blood flow,
that then responds to various stimuli.
Kind of moves its head and looks around and they put some citric acid on its face
and it licks it off and it gets startled by a hammer falling near it. They also
at the end, I think they're attempting to re-animate the dog completely but
Justin has a weak stomach so we had to stop it at this point.
Well, I was also eating. I was having a nice boha salad from Wendy's. I couldn't handle that. It's hot chili on it, which I know, yes, no longer makes it a salad.
It's just an idea of a salad is very.
Chili and a tiny green bed.
I get it.
So the dog's head is pretty stupid comments in your pocket.
The dog's head is fairly adorable, I should note.
Yeah, it is a really cute dead dog said. But it's probably not dead.
This is why it's okay for me to say that this was all fake.
Clearly, the Soviets were not reanimating dead dogs in the 1940s.
But they definitely wanted us to think they were.
And I imagine that would have been pretty intimidating.
If you watched that video and thought, holy crap, the The Soviets gonna make armies of dead dogs to come get us.
Forget it.
And that way I'm out.
Me surrender.
Give up.
That's it, we're out.
And you know, although if all dogs go to heaven, that's gotta be sort of disconcerting
for the dog, right?
Up there in the race of the Lord, then suck back down in the Soviet
Russia. All dogs go to heaven when Soviet Russia says they go to heaven. So, you know, we've
kind of outlined the different ideas people had for reanimation and today we don't have
a lot of new ones, but the freezing idea is still going on. Oh, really?
Yeah.
As recently as 2007, we were bringing dogs back to life in labs.
We were basically, you can question the ethics of this, but killing them by replacing their
blood with this hypothermic oxygenated saline.
So it's cold and it's got oxygen in it.
And then three hours later, so put the blood back in and shock them and they come back
to life.
That is unpleasant.
Yes, that is unpleasant.
I wouldn't recommend it.
This has been tried before.
There was a Japanese researcher before who had frozen cat brains and then warmed them
two and a half years later and they still showed electrical activity. And this is a lot of the basis for now. It's
really cool you can do research on Dr. Sam Parnia who wrote a book called Eracing Death.
And that's he's currently trying to perfect the idea of resuscitation. So we're talking about
people who have died very recently. So several hours ago
that aren't all the way dead, maybe we could say they're mostly dead. Did you get my reference?
It's from the Princess bride. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, mostly dead, mostly dead.
Yeah, remember, remember. So his hospital's rates of revival after CPR
and resuscitation are actually really high.
They're like 33%.
Wow, that's pretty amazing.
It's really good when you consider
that overall statistically it's like less than,
it's like 15% or so.
And he's doing much better than that.
And a lot of it has to do with him cooling people down,
lowering the body temperature to stop any damage
that's done immediately after death
and then being able to bring them back later.
And this was supported by,
there was an Australian woman who fell in the ice
while she was skiing in 1999.
She found an air pocket that allowed her to breathe longer than you would expect,
but she went into cardiovascular death.
I mean, she died for like 80 solid minutes under the ice.
They brought her back to the hospital, warmed her up, and shocked her and her heart restarted,
and she recovered, which is pretty amazing.
Yeah.
I'm preoccupied with a question.
Okay.
And I'm hoping you can help me.
And I know that I'm going to sound a little silly when I ask this,
but it's our Halloween episode.
So I hope you'll forgive a little,
a detour into the macabre.
I'll forgive it this once.
Why doesn't it work?
Like, why doesn't it work? Like, why doesn't it work? I mean, why wouldn't it work? What's the difference between a person who is alive and then what? I don't know what you want
to say. They die for some reason, whatever. Nothing like brutal, not like decapitation or whatever, but like why
doesn't it work? Well there are a couple things that were up against and there
things that actually if you read this book because I've been reading a lot about
this doctor online that he is addressing there are a couple hurdles. One
damage to the brain. So you know after, after a certain amount of time, hypoxic or lack of oxygen
damage to the brain isn't reversible. He argues the point that right now we kind of put
that cut off at like 20 minutes and he says that no, no, no, it's probably much longer.
And so, you know, that's one hurdle that we're trying to overcome is that after a while,
if the brain's dead, the brain's dead, and it doesn't matter what you do to the heart.
The brain gets damaged when it's not getting oxygen.
When it's deprived of oxygen.
A lot of this just has to do with, so, your cells have walls, and it's important for them,
that they have these membranes around them, that protect them from all the stuff that's
kind of floating out around them.
They're like baptists, basically.
They need protected from the world around them.
Got it.
I'm not saying that.
I can say that.
I was raised wrapped as I can say it.
Yeah, I was raised Catholic.
I know better than didn't salt anybody else.
But so that's one thing is that once these walls kind of get permeated,
once these membranes get permeated by external enzymes,
that can be very dangerous to the cell,
and that kind of damage isn't reversible.
Especially if the nucleus of the cell, a little center part, the control center where the DNA is,
you don't want enzymes that can break down that DNA to get in there and mess it up.
And once that happens, it's pretty much irreversible.
So if that happens on a large
scale in the brain, no go. It doesn't matter what you do. So that's one big wall that we're
up against. And the other one is reprefusion injury, which is still only, is not completely
understood, but the idea that even after blood flow has been stopped. So you're not getting
blood to your brain or to whatever organ at this point. Damages being done, you start blood flow back,
so you get the heart pumping again,
you get blood flow back there.
We see a lot of damage to those cells.
They get hit by a lot of toxins
and they can't deal with them well.
And we think it's because the cells
probably wanted to some kind of like
emergency hibernation mode.
And then when they're flooded
with a new oxygen blood supply again, they can't cope.
And so that reperfusion injury is a big problem because you got to get blood flow going again.
So how do you do it in a way that doesn't damage the cells?
And the hypothermic, like the possibility of cooling people down is the best bet we've
got right now.
Okay, well that actually makes a lot of sense.
Thank you, Sydney.
I feel like I learned something.
Oh, no problem, Justin. Hmm. Okay, well that actually makes a lot of sense. Thank you Sidney. I feel like I learned something.
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