Mark Roth on suspended animation

John30_30

This is some sci-fi nerd-science.

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engtaz

Cool

cnh

Interesting but somewhat hard to believe? In any case this Hydrogen Sulfide idea seems to be only a stop gap for prolonging life until it can be cured or saved. So by itself it is a bandaid at best. Without further advances in medicine it is only of limited use.

cnh

John30_30

cnh wrote: »

Interesting but somewhat hard to believe? In any case this Hydrogen Sulfide idea seems to be only a stop gap for prolonging life until it can be cured or saved. So by itself it is a bandaid at best. Without further advances in medicine it is only of limited use.

cnh

Oh yeah, definitely a slippery slope.

hearingimpared

cnh wrote: »

Interesting but somewhat hard to believe? In any case this Hydrogen Sulfide idea seems to be only a stop gap for prolonging life until it can be cured or saved. So by itself it is a bandaid at best. Without further advances in medicine it is only of limited use.

cnh

Many, many medical procedures or treatments are "bandaids" so if this advances at the rate he claims it could be a possible way to slow the rate of disease and treat cancer patients or chronic kidney dialysis patients or conjestive heart failure patients, no?