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Bed under a cooling blanket and took the temperature down to 58 degrees and what did they find? shivering is our defense mechanism that raises our temperature when we are hypothermic. what they found his shivering, the muscles are activated, they need calories to burn and it releases a hormone that then ask on the fat. the special kind of fat, brown fat, when it burns energy it releases heat. what is interesting about this is they found it can convert, this hormone can convert the white fat, the terrible fact lying around your body looking bad, too brown fat. brown fat has applications because people with more brown fat have a higher metabolic rate, mitochondria in it, they burn more energy. so there is implications for diabetes and for obesity. jon: you learn something new every day. i did not realize there was good fat you carry around in your body. ....
But what we know is it does a lot of good things in the setting of an acute injury, so your cells don t need as much oxygen. that s good at a time when you re deprived of oxygen. so, doctors wrap up chris in this special cooling blanket. but they also realize something else. he needed to be even colder, and they needed a more experienced team to do that. the absolute best place for him and the best chance he had for a full recovery was to be at university of pennsylvania. we accepted the transfer and we got him here by helicopter as quickly as we could. chris had been down for quite a while. in these sort of situations people often have crippling brain injury. you know, i would have thought chris brooks would have had a terrible brain injury as well. but a balanced team was fighting back. how? by cooling his body temperature below 90 degrees. now, on top of the extra minutes that chris got from the cpr, it was this cold that might buy a few hours. would it be enough? ....
Scientists love to argue about because we re not exactly sure. but what we know is it does a lot of good things in the setting of an acute injury, so your cells don t need as much oxygen. that s good at a time when you re deprived of oxygen. so, doctors wrap up chris in this special cooling blanket. but they also realize something else. he needed to be even colder, and they needed a more experienced team to do that. the absolute best place for him and the best chance he had for a full recovery was to be at university of pennsylvania. we accepted the transfer and we got him here by helicopter as quickly as we could. chris had been down for quite a while. in these sort of situations people often have crippling brain injury. you know, i would have thought chris brooks would have had a terrible brain injury as well. but a balanced team was fighting back. how? by cooling his body temperature below 90 degrees. now, on top of the extra minutes that chris got from the cpr, it ....
this is one of the things scientists love to argue about because we re not exactly sure. but what we know is it does a lot of good things in the setting of an acute injury, so your cells don t need as much oxygen. that s good at a time when you re deprived of oxygen. so, doctors wrap up chris in this special cooling blanket. but they also realize something else. he needed to be even colder, and they needed a more experienced team to do that. the absolute best place for him and the best chance he had for a full recovery was to be at university of pennsylvania. we accepted the transfer, and we got him here by helicopter as quickly as we could. chris had been down for quite a while. in these sort of situations people often have crippling brain injury. you know, i would have thought chris brooks would have had a terrible brain injury as well. but a balanced team was fighting back. how? by cooling his body temperature below 90 degrees. ....