Timeline for Why would vampires require human blood?
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| May 15, 2021 at 21:12 | comment | added | MolbOrg | Just another one - blood not necessarly has to have something exclusive as material proteine antibody etc, but it may have specific property in specific cinditions, like stick and stimukate certain cell tissue in their body, which may be population feedback loop - not enough blood means not enough prey, so time to die for a weaker part of population. Okay whatever idea comes next won't bother to write it down, lol, there is no end for it. | |
| May 15, 2021 at 21:06 | comment | added | MolbOrg | I'll answer to that comment under your answer. " human blood would need to have, at least, a fairly large number of exclusive traits to it," - that is indeed a good and correct statement, and human blood indeed has plenty of own traits, because if u think about if, if it would not to then we would have 0 problem/difficulties with donor blood. And there is more, not only unique traits can be important, but typical proportions of more common traits can be important, but it even harder to explain why so. I just answer u q, and not so much interested in topic, u get it or not, but i said enough. | |
| May 15, 2021 at 15:20 | history | edited | ProjectApex | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 15, 2021 at 14:55 | comment | added | ProjectApex | @AlexP as would be the white blood cells. Either way the vampire needs a method to prevent the components they need in the human blood to be separated so that they're not digested, such as a pre-stomach chamber. Also the answer does say they supplement their diet, but is written in a way that emphasizes that the consumption of blood is still important to their diet, which leads me to believe human food is secondary when compared to blood, and that their digestive track and kidneys do have adaptations for a diet a tad more centered about digesting blood, like those found in vampire bats. | |
| May 15, 2021 at 14:33 | comment | added | AlexP | The antibodies in @DWKraus's answer are dissolved in the plasma. His answer has nothing to do with the white blood cells. Plus, it is known that (freshly born) humans and do take antibodies by mouth. Moreover, the question explicitly says that the vamp pyres eat other stuff too, and therefore they must have a pretty normal digestive system. | |
| May 15, 2021 at 14:15 | comment | added | ProjectApex | @AlexP they'd probably have processes to prevent that from happening and separating the white blood cells before initiating digestion, which funny enough is an internal mechanism whose existence is necessary for both answers to work, except DWKraus thought about using the white blood cells themselves while I thought to use only the human DNA within | |
| May 15, 2021 at 14:06 | comment | added | AlexP | Wouldn't the human DNA be instantly degraded / denatured by the acid in the stomach? | |
| May 15, 2021 at 13:23 | history | answered | ProjectApex | CC BY-SA 4.0 |