The research seems to show that mild hypothermia slows down neural activity in the brain but does not damage it. Mild hypothermia is sometimes medically induced after stroke or TBI or protect the brain.
For those people with Alzheimers or dementia and hypothermia, I think their brain has other problems, and hypothermia is downstream of those other problems.
Nonetheless, certainly one needs to be able to say how much cooling is too much, or otherwise characterize the point at which cooling introduces its own form of cognitive degradation...
Preventing heat throttling makes sense, but the brain does not tolerate hypothermia well: see for example https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39884656/. The brain is likely alreA
You cut your comment at ‘already’.
The research seems to show that mild hypothermia slows down neural activity in the brain but does not damage it. Mild hypothermia is sometimes medically induced after stroke or TBI or protect the brain.
For those people with Alzheimers or dementia and hypothermia, I think their brain has other problems, and hypothermia is downstream of those other problems.
Nonetheless, certainly one needs to be able to say how much cooling is too much, or otherwise characterize the point at which cooling introduces its own form of cognitive degradation...