If the human body didn't heal itself, how'd you be doing rn?
Your body doesn’t heal itself. Cuts need stitches that must be permanent. Bones need to be screwed together even if just cracked. How you doing?
Your body doesn’t heal itself. Cuts need stitches that must be permanent. Bones need to be screwed together even if just cracked. How you doing?
toiletobserver, D-E-D, dead.
HowManyNimons, We’ve all bled out.
LemmyKnowsBest, (edited ) Yep. RIP 13-year-old me getting my first menstrual period. But probably died long before that after first needle prick.
xantoxis, (edited ) If you’ve ever broken a bone, just assume you’d be dead of infection.
Actually let’s take this further: multicellular life wouldn’t exist. Life wouldn’t exist. Cell division requires both cells to heal themselves. This is a silly question.
DBT, You went too deep.
Yes it is a silly question. Just trying to have some fun.
Skotimusj, People think that the immune system is like this pinpoint accurate machine that kills invaders. In reality, it is more like a carpet bomber that functions under the principle that we can heal and viruses/bacteria cannot. Inflammation is basically your body carpet bombing and healing.
We would also not be able to build muscle mass as the repair of microtears is what leads to hypertrophy.
So we would all be dead. Healing if fundamental to life.
DBT, (edited ) I was thinking of purely physical injuries, so nothing immune system related. But the muscle building part… Damn. Yea we’d all be a bunch of wet noodles. Hadn’t thought of that.
Tolookah, I’m not the first born child, I likely would not be alive
crystalmerchant, Everyone in the world is dead next question
DBT, I wouldn’t be dead, but I’d probably prefer to die in this scenario.
MrJameGumb, Probably everyone would die from common illnesses in childhood
intensely_human, Sounds like the sort of question someone under 30 asks
DBT, Most decent people tend to learn to keep their rude comments to themselves as they age, so the same could be said about your comment.
intensely_human, How does that strike you as rude?
DBT, It kinda came off like you were calling me young and dumb.
But I think I see where you were coming from. I wasn’t really thinking about old age pains and injuries, even though I’m currently dealing with one.
This was a shower thought where I was mostly thinking about cuts and broken bones. Not meant to be super serious or deep.
Darthjaffacake, Sorry grandad
rikudou, I’d be very dead.
jol, This is just too unrealistic. I mean, some people actually suffer from conditions where they have a really hard time healing wounds, like lack of plackettes. And some people bruse extremely easily. But if you were unable to heal at all, you would be long gone. Kids get scratches all the time, and even one scratch would lead to an infection that would overwhelm you immune system.
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jol, Haha sorry. I mistranslated it. Yes, platelets.
klemptor, My new favorite mistranslation 💙
Feathercrown, Stop bleeding… by healing the hole
jacktherippah, Very dead.
BradleyUffner, Add immortality and you’ve got Elantris.
feedum_sneedson, I give Brandon Sanderson a hard time for being a bit shit, but I enjoyed the premise of this book.
Travesty, Always felt like the immortality was extraneous. Everyone gonna choose the fire after a couple months of no healing.
cabhan, Have you ever read the book Elantris? It sounds very not fun.
RememberTheApollo, Absurd.
Every one of us a) wouldn’t have come into existence, because birth is a trauma with plenty of bleeding and potential for infection on both sides, and b) you’d die from your first infection or bleed out from your first cut.
monsterpiece42, 100% dead
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