Many animal species in the world go into hibernation when the winter season comes. Animals that reduce their metabolic rate sleep during the winter, survive the winter and return to their lives in the summer. Bears are one of those animals. So how is it that bears sleep during the winter without dying and losing weight, and open their eyes when the weather gets warmer?
Scientists conducted a study on bears. The study revealed that there is a “superpower” in the blood of these animals that only works during the winter season. According to experts, who cannot fully explain this superpower, the hibernating blood of bears has a very interesting effect. This effect can even be used in humans.
The blood of the hibernating bear increases the amount of protein in the body
Taking blood samples from 7 hibernating bears, Japanese scientists looked at what blood does in human tissue. As a result of the studies, it was understood that the blood of a hibernating bear makes protein synthesis to protect the body. In other words, the bear’s body, which reached gigantic dimensions, was producing proteins on its own in order not to die. Moreover, this was only true when hibernating. Experts who took blood from non-hibernating bears and injected it into human tissue were unable to reach any conclusions. In other words, blood could only produce protein during hibernation. How this happened is still a mystery.
Scientists working at Hiroshima University are trying to deepen their results. However, there has been an important development here. So much so that the blood of hibernating bears can be used to prevent muscle wasting in humans. Japanese scientists also began to investigate what effects this would have.
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