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Weird Thought - Could You Survive Longer If You Ate Your Own Blood & Flesh If You Were Starving?
Just a random weird thought i had.
Just wondered if it could in anyway keep you alive a bit longer?
or would it just be equal & do nothing?
or would it make you worse?
I know the loss of blood would make you a little bit weaker, but would your blood 'replenish' quicker?
Are the nutrients in blood better in our veins or in other parts of us & being used for digestion?
I also wondered about actually eating bits of ourselves, just thin slivers of skin, some fat etc, bits that should easily heal & maybe just leave a scar, & being sure not to let it get infected.
Could you even eat the scar tissue if it was thick & raised like serious keloid scarring?
assuming infection was not a problem at all - how much of ourselves could we eat before we died of the injuries, not starvation?
Or would the starvation stop you healing properly?
because flesh will grow until its healed enough - my ex had a large abcess & left a big hole - but doctors padded the hole with a sort of gel/fibre stuff to keep it open until the flesh grew out to fill the hole, so if you could do that perhaps?
Im thinking about how some anorexic people seem like skeletons & can live a long time
I recall the film about the rugby team in the andes who ate bits of their dead teammates to survive, but i got the impression they didnt eat much, but it was just enough to keep them going.
Any thoughts? (other than telling me im a weirdo, lol)
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Tora - thats literally what im doing.
The replenishments is from the flesh you consume.
thats the weird cycle. how long could that last.
instead of using up the energy & losing the fat to nothing, you are cutting it off & putting it back in again.
The point is could it create a sort of cycle of replenishment, even for a little while?
instead of the body using up the energy into nothing, we are consuming it to make more energy.
starving uses up fat mainly, but there are other things on us - a lot of skin, lots of muscle, cartilage, bone marrow,
but going further with things you could chop off & survive - ears, fingers, toes, lips, penis, balls, boobs, vulva, uvula, part of tongue, maybe even bits of liver etc if it could be done a certain way safely.
& as above - every little helps - snot, scabs, scar tissue, pee, hard foot skin, even earwax
if theres even a little bit of nutrition in any of it, in it goes.
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