What Happened To The First Human Head Transplant? (Feat. Medlife Crisis)

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In 2015, Italian neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero announced that he intended to perform a human head transplant within a few years, and even more shockingly, he had a volunteer for the almost guaranteed-to-be-lethal procedure: a Russian man named Valery Spiridonov. What happened to this crazy plan? And what would it actually take to perform a human head transplant?

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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 - Intro
1:57 - Luigi Galvani
3:30 - Transplant History
6:48 - Sergio Canavaro
12:27 - HEAVEN Protocol
17:18 - Polyethelyne Glycol
22:18 - Sponsor - Factor