As soon as you read these lines, you’ll get excited “Not really!” We can swear you said that. Well, years ago What if we told you that a surgeon seriously considered this?

Bride, Is such a thing possible? Let’s investigate.

So far, no doctor has been able to put a severed spinal cord back where it belongs, and therefore paralysis is inevitable in this transplant process.

But paralysis is not the only problem. Brain cells always need oxygen-rich blood supply to survive due to their high energy demands. Moreover, this transplant operation is likely It will cut off the oxygen supply to the brain for hours.

But a neurosurgeon Robert White has an idea. When the brain is cold, metabolism slows down and less oxygen is needed.

White, who experimented with this idea on dogs and monkeys, found that blood flow in the brain was selectively cooled and stopped, but He realizes that the remaining blood in the body is warm and continues to circulate.

Then in 1964, White cooled the brain of a person with a fatal brain tumor to 11°C.

Under normal circumstances, the surgical team only has 3 to 5 minutes to remove the tumor, but with this new technique the operation takes more than 1 hour. In other words, brain cooling revolutionizes brain surgery and allows the surgeon to do so It brings the body closer to the transplant goal.

The idea of ​​transplanting a head to another body using the brain cooling method, considered unethical by many critics and the scientific community. In fact, the idea is considered quite cruel.

So onto people Such an attempt never happens.

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