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| Jun 3, 2021 at 5:55 | comment | added | Anon | "Extracting energy from food is paradoxically an energy intensive task." Much of that is in the chemical reactor which has to handle everything edible and a few things which aren't. Ruminants have multiple stomachs to handle cellulose, humans only have one. This thing can use something as simple as bloodsucking parasites do - its nutrients are provided in accessible, consistent, purified form. | |
| Jun 2, 2021 at 20:33 | history | answered | Trioxidane | CC BY-SA 4.0 |