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.
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.
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.
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
Probably everyone would die from common illnesses in childhood
Everyone in the world is dead next question
I wouldn’t be dead, but I’d probably prefer to die in this scenario.
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.
Very dead.
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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Haha sorry. I mistranslated it. Yes, platelets.
My new favorite mistranslation ❤️
Stop bleeding… by healing the hole
I have spent time lifting weights in the gym, every muscle in my body would be soup.
Same. Hadn’t thought of that. It wouldn’t be possible to get swole.
HVAC tech. My hands would be banana peels.
Add immortality and you’ve got Elantris.
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?
