What hibernating animals can teach us about human sleep with Vladyslav Vyazovskiy

关于人类睡眠,我们可以从冬眠动物中学到什么——与弗拉基斯拉夫·维亚佐夫斯基(Vladyslav Vyazovskiy)的对话

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2025-03-18

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Do you ever wish you could hibernate like a bear during the winter? Vladyslav Vyazovskiy thinks it might be possible. As a sleep physiologist at Oxford, Vladyslav studies why humans sleep and the sleep patterns of other species. He and Adam discuss the possibility of unlocking a hibernation ability in humans and its potential benefits – from curing cancer to enabling interplanetary travel. They also debunk some popular sleep misconceptions, debate the value of napping, and uncover just how little we really know about the science of sleep. For the full text transcript, visit go.ted.com/RWAGscripts Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  • So it's very likely that rather than animals evolved to hibernate,

  • probably most of our ancestors actually hibernated in some forms and some of them lost in the course of evolution.

  • Because it's such a clever strategy, actually think almost like a default state of being.

  • Maybe we forgot how to do it because we learned how to build houses right and have central heating.

  • Hey everyone, it's Adam Grant.

  • Welcome back to Rethinking my podcast on the science of what makes us tick with the TED Audio Collective.

  • I'm an organizational psychologist and I'm taking you inside the minds of fascinating people to explore new thoughts and new ways of thinking.

  • My guest today is Vladislav Vasovsky.

  • He's a sleep physiologist at Oxford where he studies why we sleep and how animals hibernate.

  • His work has made me question many of my basic assumptions about slumber.

  • And I bet it's gonna have the same effect on you.

  • We love metaphors when we talk about sleep, and this is exactly because we don't understand it.

  • That's why we talk about this sleep depth.

  • And nobody knows what deep sleep is.

  • Today,

  • Vladislav and I are wide awake to discuss the science of sleep and an idea that I find fascinating.

  • Human hibernation.

  • Vladislav, great to meet you.

  • Great to meet you too, Andam, thank you.

  • Thank you for the invite.