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Interesting research tidbit

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longer life and heat tolerance, interesting.

here's one on longer life and fat burning heat production
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Protein found to turn up metabolism in mice - Yahoo! News

Protein found to turn up metabolism in mice

- Tricking muscle tissue to burn rather than store fat has succeeded in increasing the average life span of mice and staved off some age-related diseases, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday. Mice bred to make too much of a protein known as uncoupling protein 1 released food energy as heat instead of storing it as fat. "What we're uncoupling is the process of burning energy from storing energy," said Dr. Clay Semenkovich of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri whose research appears in the journal Cell Metabolism.
 
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I thought the link between hydrogen sulfide and "hybernation" abilty was interesting and relevant to breath holding performance.
 
ah, I was thinking in terms of heat and energy.
Here's another version, mentions ADP, mitochondria, fat burning
Waste Energy, Fight Disease -- Mitchell 2007 (1204): 3 -- ScienceNOW


I wonder if hibernators have sleep apnea, holding their breaths while asleep. I know that some seals asleep on shore have sleep apnea, breath holding much longer during sleep than when awake on shore. (from a study of seal pups.)
 
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