Can you eat your own flesh to survive?!
Question: You are on a desert island, no food anywhere. You have a knife. You are hungry. Would it be beneficial in the long-run to say; cut off portions of your own body/flesh to eat for nourishment?
Maybe just a chunk from your leg, or even a whole limb.
Thanks.
Answers: You are on a desert island, no food anywhere. You have a knife. You are hungry. Would it be beneficial in the long-run to say; cut off portions of your own body/flesh to eat for nourishment?
Maybe just a chunk from your leg, or even a whole limb.
Thanks.
When you're starving, your body starts to digest itself anyway (doing damage to your muscles and organs). If it gets this desperate, the digestion should be slower since the body will be in survival mode, and I imagine your body would do this efficiently breaking down tissue to get just the minimal amount of energy it needs. Putting something in your stomach however would require energy to digest it, some of it would go to waste and it would probably give the body a false sense of hope throwing off the slowed metabolism (not to mention you'd be adding a major flesh wound when your body already has too much stress placed on it, and not enough resources to be able to handle such things correctly).
no cause u would prob bleed to death
no but if there was someone else around that would work better! i dont think i'll have the guts to that to myself, i'd rather starve to death....
Theoretically you could do this. However, you would have to be able to cut off the flesh without the benefit of anesthesia, cauterize the wound before you bled so much you passed out (of course if you passed out you would die), cook the flesh yourself, under this tremendous strain and pain, and somehow not get an infection from the whole thing. Its a pretty long shot to survive all those odds....oh and don't forget the wild animals that would be drawn by the scent, and you wouldn't be able to fight off in your condition!
ewwww!
why do people sit around and think of things like this???
possibly, it would depend on how much flesh you eat, you wouldnt want to eat your entire arm or anything, because you would risk infection and bleeding to death. also you might need it later. but like maybe if you just cut off a little bit....but it probably wouldnt be enough to sustain you. so its probably not a good idea.
Also your muscel tissue is protein, and you would eventually get ketone acidosis (b/c your body can't survive on protein alone, and it would start to eat its self from the inside out anyways) and you would die ....