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This document reviews mammalian hibernation and explores similarities between natural hibernation and human obesity/metabolic syndrome. [1] Mammalian hibernators such as ground squirrels store massive fat deposits in autumn which fuel multi-month hibernation periods over winter, emerging lean in spring. [2] During hibernation, body temperatures and metabolic rates plummet but animals actively control this and can rewarm, unlike passive hypothermia. [3] Hibernation follows a circannual rhythm cued to photo

Author

Carlos Manuel Aboitiz Rivera

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