REAL-LIFE Frankenstein? The Unsettling Science of HEAD Transplants

Would you swap your body to save your life? Even if it meant losing your mind? 🧠✂️

It sounds like the plot of a horror movie or a Mary Shelley novel, but for Dr. Sergio Canavero, the world’s first human Head Transplant isn't fiction—it’s the next step in human evolution.

In this episode, we dissect the unsettling science behind the HEAVEN and GEMINI procedures, the audacious plan to sever a human head and fuse it onto a donor body using "biological glue" (Polyethylene Glycol). We dive deep into the story of Valery Spiridonov, the Russian computer scientist who volunteered to be the first test subject, only to back out for a very human reason: love.

But is this medical genius, or just "rotten science"?

We explore the terrifying hurdles that Canavero ignores: the impossible task of reconnecting a spinal cord, the nightmare of immune rejection, and the psychological horror of waking up in a stranger's skin. We also look back at the gruesome history of Robert J. White’s monkey head transplants to see why the medical community is screaming "STOP."

We’re cutting into the controversy:
The Procedure: How do you keep a severed head alive?
The Ethics: If we can do it, should we?
The Reality: Why experts say the result would be a fate worse than death.

Prepare yourself. This is the story of the ultimate identity crisis.

🎧 Press PLAY to enter the operating room of the impossible.


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