Can You Freeze Your Body And Live Forever?

let's face it there aren't enough years in a lifetime to accomplish everything take Brainard's bucket list he wants to skydive win the Nobel Prize run a marathon set foot on all seven continents and that's just grazing the top of his list take it from us buddy it's best to keep your list short and sweet so you aren't lying in your deathbed completely disappointed by all the things you didn't get to do but what if we told you that science may have discovered a hack for you to freeze your brain and your body so you can wake up one day in a future with advanced medical technology to get you running again enticed brainerd well listen up because this will require all of your attention not bad if you ask us considering that you may find a way to live forever after this video so we agree there is no way you can risk ticking off just half of your bucket list brainerd had the same idea so in the interest of living forever you too will need to sign your name on the dotted line here here and here now that that's done you're on your way to living forever but exactly how is that meant to go down in a single word the answer is cryonics moments after you die antifreeze compounds are injected into your corpse in order to preserve the state of your body ideally this would begin anywhere between 2 to 15 minutes of the heart stopping in order to prevent cells from dying the body is then kept well frozen at temperatures below zero while blood is replaced with a chemical solution to preserve vital organs companies such as Al Khor and the cryonic Institute both based in the United States hoped that by freezing the bodies of their elite clientele now medical science and technology will advance enough in the future to bring them back to life if you think this all sounds an awful lot like Futurama that show you're bingeing Brainerd you're right it's just without the egg timer but how does this freezing process work exactly according to the research damage to the human body can be avoided by carefully modulating and regulating temperatures and various types of cryoprotectants it's important for scientists to inhibit ice from forming in the body which can destroy cells and tissues for that reason a smooth transition to what scientists refer to as the glassy stage is the aim this is achieved by rapidly cooling the body so that ice does not have the time or conditions to form but protection of the body and these below zero temperatures is half of the problem as you can imagine reviving whole bodies possess its own challenges as organs need to get back up and running again but it's a good sign that our bodies are familiar with the process of cooling itself take people who've drowned for example despite being submerged in cold water most people are revived not to mention modern medical practices such as egg stem cell and skin transplants are largely successful despite being frozen and then thawed so it doesn't look all bad but as you can imagine this process is extremely controversial for many reasons for one thing this process has only been able to revive living embryos researchers hypothesize that the ordinary person would not survive let alone revive from these deep freeze conditions at least according to present-day medicine not to mention there is always the question of these cryonic companies and their intentions are they making these claims to exhaust high paying customers and their wallets or can they really follow through on their promise of medical miracles but the uncertainty of cryonics future is not deterring customers from this future savvy service around 350 people worldwide have had their corpses preserved immediately after death in the hopes that they can be revived in the future Dennis Kowalski the president of the Michigan based cryonics Institute claims that his scientists could reanimate any one of these frozen corpses within the next 10 years if Kowalski can live up to his promises around 2000 people are hoping to sign up for his cryonics services but we know what you're thinking Brainerd are there any real-life cases of once-frozen patients walking amongst us is in Walt Disney frozen somewhere the short answer is no there are currently no successful non-embryonic cryonic patients try saying that sentence five times fast as for good old Walt Disney awaiting for a medical miracle it's an urban legend the rumor has been repeatedly denied by various sources including Disney's own daughter Diane runner 1972 biography that she doubted her father even had heard of cryonics the good news is there are many people curious enough to try it out yes including you Brainerd English man Mike Carter for example has paid a pretty penny to be frozen the minute he's declared dead until science can wake the dead Carter will remain in a cylinder of liquid nitrogen at a whopping temperature of negative 196 degrees Celsius I hope it works out for him considering he paid about a hundred and sixty thousand British pounds which amounts to roughly two hundred and six thousand seven hundred and forty-nine US dollars he hikes better start budgeting Brainard oh what's that you don't have hundreds of thousands of dollars to spare on a risky future investments well can't blame you there Brainard but don't worry we have some cheaper alternatives ready to go for you here are a few ways to live forever without breaking the bank it seems as though the science community agrees that the only reasonable and tangible method of living forever at least for right now is by living in the cloud more specifically your unique consciousness would be uploaded to a computer and through this all of your thoughts could be preserved until medicine finds a way to revive a dead body the first step towards digital immortality is to create brain simulation technology with enough capacity to store human consciousness to date experts using IBM's bluejeans supercomputers have created a digital brain with 1.6 billion neurons sounds like a lot right you must be thinking brain here that this supercomputer must match the capabilities of the human brain well not exactly in fact IBM's computer and its 1.6 billion neurons is similar to more of a cat's brain than a human brain there is currently no computer powerful or big enough to support the human brains 86 billion neurons you might not think that your brain has a lot going on up there especially since some of the biggest decisions you have to make every day is what to watch on Netflix but you'd be surprised on how complex your brain actually is so it seems that a six billion neurons is proving to be a difficult task so we may have to search for an alternative to living forever so let's look at anti-aging products and treatments in the beauty industry eternal life is a big business there's a huge market for age-defying products treatments and services recent figures from Orbis research state that 20-18 559 million dollars was invested by venture capitalists and a variety of anti-aging companies one of the controversial investment opportunities within the anti-aging arena is vitrification this is the process of embalming chemicals to preserve the brains neuronal structure by turning it temporarily into glass this has been successfully trialed in 2016 on a rabbit's brain and then later in 2018 on a pig's but whether or not it would work on a human is still a mystery allegedly this procedure is enticing enough for 25 people to pay a deposit of $25,000 to wait for the process to be perfected but of course the vitrification is highly controversial mostly because the process includes ending life of a patient in order to successfully preserve the brain yeah that's right not only do you have to pay a pretty penny for vitrification but they also need to terminate you Plus not to mention that there is currently no method of successfully reviving a once-frozen brain but once it is discovered then all it is is the simple task of copying and pasting that brain into a robot so maybe all the technology isn't right where it's meant to be but medicine is making advances every single day but we know you brainerd here and impatient are you really gonna be able to wait until 2050 it's 30 years from now but we're medicine lags technology and social media are making strides every minute even if your cell phone can't mirror your consciousness much of you and all that you are is on that little device from your banking information to your credit card numbers to the sequences of your passwords there is a lot of you already floating around as data on the internet if you ask me it's just a matter of time before you're uploaded to the Internet so it looks like you might live after Albright neared but to stay safe you may want to delete this this this and this off your browser history if you're gonna live forever on the internet do we really want people knowing that you've watched the Christmas prints 30 times here's an idea instead watch some of our new Brainiac videos they're way more entertaining anyway [Music]

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Keywords: Can we Live Forever, Technology of Cryonics, Alcar, Cryonic Institute, eternal youth, eternal life, vitrification, immortal

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Length: 8min 40sec (520 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 17 2020