X-Message-Number: 5523
From:  (Brian Wowk)
Newsgroups: sci.cryonics
Subject: Re: Radiation preservation
Date: 1 Jan 96 21:29:58 GMT
Message-ID: <>
References: <> <4c85da$>

In <4c85da$>
    (NetMan) writes:

>I wonder- would you say the primary preservation effect of Cyronics is
>the stopping of this enzymatic type of destruction or the
>microbiological destruction?

	Microbial decay takes days to really get going in the brain,
whereas nasty chemistry starts to happen within minutes of cardiac
arrest.  Certainly the most important benefit of cooling and freezing
someone whose heart is stopped is the inhibition of chemistry.
   
 **************************************************************************
 Brian Wowk          CryoCare Foundation              1-800-TOP-CARE
 President           Your Gateway to the Future       
    http://www.cryocare.org/cryocare/
 --------------------------------------------------------------------------


Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=5523