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?
D-E-D, dead.
We’ve all bled out.
Yep. RIP 13-year-old me getting my first menstrual period. But probably died long before that after first needle prick.
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.
You went too deep.
Yes it is a silly question. Just trying to have some fun.
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.
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.
I’m not the first born child, I likely would not be alive
Very very very dead. The first cut you get would cause you to bleed out and die. It would be a miracle to survive to one year old
Stitch that bad boy up to stop the bleeding. You’re just stuck with the stitches for life.
Unfortunately most stitching doesn’t work by itself, you still need natural clotting. The stitching can help hold the wound together so the clotting is more effective and blood losses lessened. But without clotting factor you’re going to need to glue it closed
Everyone in the world is dead next question
I wouldn’t be dead, but I’d probably prefer to die in this scenario.
Probably everyone would die from common illnesses in childhood
Sounds like the sort of question someone under 30 asks
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.
How does that strike you as rude?
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.
Sorry grandad
Very dead.
Does “heal itself” include immune responses? Like, could you recover from a cold on your own or would you need anti virals?
No. Purely physical. I should’ve clarified that.
I’d be very dead.
HVAC tech. My hands would be banana peels.
Add immortality and you’ve got Elantris.
I give Brandon Sanderson a hard time for being a bit shit, but I enjoyed the premise of this book.
Always felt like the immortality was extraneous. Everyone gonna choose the fire after a couple months of no healing.
In the last year alone I pulled a siatic nerve… Burned my stomach (small scar) and broke the left most bone in my left foot in 3 places and barely dodged surgery as it is… So not great?
