outside the lab the theory goes like this. slowing things down would lengthen the window of survival. think about that. for soldiers who get shot and they are losing their blood, they die before they can get to definitive care. so, it s the same thing, right? you don t have enough oxygen. not so different than the mice we spoke about. where we could extend their survival limit. today we revived this rat after less than an hour. how is our rat doing? he s okay. he s starting to move around and stuff and he s started to get over the whole deal and behave. so, he s back? yes, he s back. but in the original experiment, roth kept that dimmer switch down for six hours, then brought the mice back to normal. it s not like they died. we stopped the experiment because we felt we made our point. it worked well enough to land roth in the pages of ripley s believe it or not. is there any reason why it wouldn t work in people? i m not aware of them, but
the princess bride. he is almost dead or a little dead. right. i love that. i ve seen worse. well it just so happens that your friend here is only mostly dead. what ends up happening is creatures don t move. they actually appear dead, only they re not. with backing from the military, roth decided to try his experiment on mice. take a look here. here s the mouse getting a dose of toxic hydrogen sulfide. now, a normal mouse would just be a ball of activity. not this one. he isn t sleeping. he isn t dead. it s just that every process in his body, even death, is in slow-motion. when i came to visit, roth showed me how he did it. what you re doing here is you re just dimming the metabolism. just dimming the light a bit. outside the lab the theory goes like this. slowing things down would lengthen the window of survival. think about that.
ironically eliminating it altogether can put you in a state of suspended animation. and to do that, roth gave the creatures a dose of toxic gas, hydrogen sulfide, truth as strange as fiction. what s your favorite movie? the princess bride. he is almost dead or a little dead. right. i love that. i ve seen worse. well, it just so happens that your friend here is only mostly dead. what ends up happening is creatures don t move. they actually appear dead, only they re not. with backing from the military, roth decided to try his experiment on mice. take a look here. here s the mouse getting a dose of toxic hydrogen sulfide. now, a normal mouse would just be a ball of activity. not this one. he isn t sleeping. he isn t dead. it s just that every process in his body, even death, is in slow-motion. when i came to visit, roth showed me how he did it. what you re doing here is you re just dimming the metabolism. just dimming the light a bit.
for soldiers who get shot and they are losing their blood, they die before they can get to definitive care. so, it s the same thing, right? you don t have enough oxygen. not so different than the mice we spoke about. where we could extend their survival limit. today we revived this rat after less than an hour. how is our rat doing? he s okay. he s starting to move around and stuff and he s started to get over the whole deal and behave. so, he s back? yes, he s back. but in the original experiment, roth kept that dimmer switch down for six hours, then brought the mice back to normal. it s not like they died. we stopped the experiment because we felt we made our point. it worked well enough to land roth in the pages of ripley s believe it or not. is there any reason why it wouldn t work in people? i m not aware of them but i m sure they could exist. what you want to do is have the patient s time be slowed down, while everyone around them moves
interested in is the fact that some people given certain circumstances don t actually die. the 29-year-old skier in norway is trapped in waterfall. her core temperature falls to 13 degrees c. she has no capacity to sustain a heart rate for nine hours. she reanimates. the key is changing metabolism. but the question is how? hibernation is one trigger. cold is another. roth found other clues in very simple animals, insects, tiny fish. is there a formula amongst all this for suspended animation? yes. there is a formula for it. and the way you turn them off is to simply reduce the oxygen concentration. of course, everyone knows reducing oxygen is bad, but ironically eliminating altogether can put you in a state of suspended animation. and to do that, roth gave the creatures a dose of toxic gas, hydrogen sulfide, truth as strange as fiction. what s your favorite movie?