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?
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.
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
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
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.
The fuck is a plackette? Do you mean platelets? That’s not so much a healing issue as a “stop bleeding” issue
Haha sorry. I mistranslated it. Yes, platelets.
My new favorite mistranslation ❤️
Stop bleeding… by healing the hole
I’d be alright
100% 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.
Have you read Elantris?
Covers this pretty well.
I have not, but I will. Thanks.
Beadridden
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.
Well, given I have a bunch of injuries that never healed, I’d say I’m doing alright considering.
Being a young person who hasn’t had one of these yet, you should be aware that older people don’t heal as well as younger people.
Oh I’m aware. I’m over 40 and am currently dealing with an injury that doesn’t seem to want to ever heal.
Died as an infant from anything
Have you ever read the book Elantris? It sounds very not fun.
I’m not the first born child, I likely would not be alive
Ded. I’d be nothing but a mass of stitches and have been burned enough times, if that didn’t heal id be dead.
Slow healing is the one thing I notice the most about getting older. I’m in good shape and all, well nourished, it’s not lifestyle. I broke my finger and it took two years to heal completely. As a kid that would have been 6 weeks, at 50 something it took 104 weeks.
