Timeline for If accelerated natural healing were to occur, what would happen to the human body?
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| Apr 4, 2018 at 1:14 | comment | added | Headcrab | Why would you need a 10,000x increase in blood flow? Under normal circumstances (e. g. ordinary, non-accelerated healing speed), are all the local blood, oxygen and other "resources" used for healing the wound? I'm no biologist, but I think not: most of that stuff just flow by, only a tiny fraction of it being used for actual healing. | |
| Nov 5, 2017 at 16:25 | comment | added | SPavel | @TobyY. Since muscle mass gets built up by micro-tears healing, would this infinitely regenerating person get extremely swole? | |
| May 4, 2016 at 15:48 | comment | added | Wayne Werner | @DanielParejoMuñoz what if...? ;) | |
| May 4, 2016 at 15:25 | comment | added | xDaizu | @WayneWerner exactly my thoughts. Are we sure this exchange site wasn't opened at Randall's petition? Haha | |
| Dec 23, 2015 at 22:15 | comment | added | Wayne Werner | I love how many of these WB questions end out like xkcd's what-if's. | |
| Aug 5, 2015 at 15:05 | comment | added | anaximander | Without the secondary powers, the cause of death would probably be anoxia. Brain cells can survive around 10-12 seconds once your blood deoxygenates, so with your injury taking oxygen out of your blood, neighbouring cells would start dying, triggering healing, pulling more oxygen, and 12 seconds after that chain reaction reaches your head it's game over. | |
| Dec 17, 2014 at 2:47 | comment | added | Toby Y. | @CreationEdge It depends on the details of the injury/infection - both are plausible. In general, though, hunger is likely to be the bigger problem - the body can recycle raw materials to a greater extent than fuel, so I'd expect energy to be the bottleneck most of the time. (Essentially, you'd be very hungry, but only sort-of malnourished.) | |
| Dec 16, 2014 at 5:57 | comment | added | user3195 | What happens if you don't increase food consumption? Malnutrition or just hunger? Does healing become a new fad weight loss trick? | |
| Nov 22, 2014 at 1:51 | vote | accept | Crabgor | ||
| Nov 20, 2014 at 23:52 | comment | added | Crabgor | Completely forgot about telomeres! Nice catch. | |
| Nov 20, 2014 at 23:24 | history | answered | Toby Y. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |