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The wonders of the human body
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have you tried putting that ankle in a uterus for most of a year
This is the best description of stem cell therapy I've ever seen.
I've tried, the cops keep stopping me.
Human body from birth to age 29: I am invincible!
Human body once you hit 30: Hey, remember that time your knee was sore for an hour when you were 12? Well now it's gonna be sore for the rest of your life
Well... if a ship left the dock, there is only that much that can be repaired while its swimming.
Hmm sounds like they got old. Getting old is widely known to adversely affect your health.
One is a requirement to be an organism. The other is a nice to have. A great many creatures simply die after reproducing, for example, which we can interpret to mean the minimum requirement has been met and anything beyond that isn't as important, if we like to view it that way.
Forming that small person is also a bit of a chaotic and messy process involving chance errors of various kinds and variations in the way parts grew. In a sense, the person formed would never be exactly the same if you tried again with the same inputs either.
That this system works as well as it does is a miracle.
EDIT: Missing words.
So if I don't have kids I can be immortal. I can be the midlander. THERE CAN BE MORE THAN ONE!
You die and whatever factors that lead you to not reproduce will become less common in the future.
That's the theory anyway!
Woohoo. Income inequality and pollution will become less common.
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I feel like once you hit your 40s, you really start to understand that concept of your body only being evolved enough to ensure that you can reproduce and the next generation survives.
In your 40s and you hurt your knee? Fuck you, your knee now hurts for the rest of your life - why aren't you dead already?
I'm 40 and and haven't reproduced. Get your shit together body.
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A great many creatures simply die after reproducing, for example, which we can interpret to mean the minimum requirement has been met and anything beyond that isn’t as important
Octopi are these incredibly intelligent and exceptionally resilient, but they kick it inside 3-5 years, typically right after reproducing.
Sounds like they should have made their kids' survival dependent on their survival. That's the ticket, right there. Now we just need to make our great-grandkids' survival dependent on our survival, and we'll all be healthy right into the next century!
Boomers slowly doing that by making sure their offspring can't afford houses.
Something the OOP also forgets to take into account is that a LOT of pregnancies fail. Especially in the early stages, before the pregnant person even knows that they're having a miscarriage.
Forming that small person is also a bit of a chaotic and messy process
That describes perfectly the state of my bedroom after.
Nature is messy and incredible.
It's because it's not worth it to save your life, evolutionary speaking.
tail bone fracture enters the chat
What's special about tailbone fractures?
It's highly innervated (sensitive) and it's cartilaginous. Cartilage is mostly nonvascular, meaning that it doesn't have blood flow to it, and which also means healing takes forever.
Because it tends to hurt for a while due to the actual physical trauma, our nervous systems also tend to send the pain messaging well after the actual trauma, even if healing has taken place. This specific pain presentation is a form of chronic pain (mostly a nervous system disorder) that is usually onset by some sort of physical trauma.
I have met 35+ plus people who fractured their tailbones when they were kids and it still hurts once in a while
Not my tailbone, but my hip, specifically where it joints with my leg. Fell while ice skating once as a teenager and every couple of years since I've gotten sharp pain in that joint that makes me almost immobile for a couple of weeks. Best I've ever gotten from a doc is a steroid shot to "hopefully" boost the healing.
Hasn't happened in a while... knocks on wood.
I used to crack my thumb a lot when I was I jr high.
Now that in 40, it's perpetually sore
That most likely is due to you being fixated on your thumb. We can and do consistently wire our nervous systems, and in this case you've probably wired yours to produce a pain sensation in your thumb.
In a nutshell, this is how chronic pain works. There most likely is nothing physically wrong with your thumb.
Physical therapy will rapidly accelerate your recovery time and results.
this is why we always want to refactor
Past time to Stem the tide
Have you tried jizzing on the ankle? That's the secret sauce.
I just call my stem cell dealer and spackle that shit on
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Behold the power of stem cells
Oh good. 4 more years to go.
Does anyone else just want those bacta tanks that they had Luke floating in after his hand was cut off or is that just me?
I bet you could do some serious shit to a person if you had something like that. Just crawl back into this cyber womb and we'll get you fixed up in a week.
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If you’re over thirty and your joint injury isn’t healing, take collagen.
The efficacy of taking collagen specifically is very much in question. It seems to be about as effective (but much more expensive) than just increasing protein consumption.
There are things you can do, like apply heat and to an extent certain supplements can help (glucosamine and turmeric are the notable ones that have evidence to support them). That said the main thing that really helps is doing dedicated and systematic strength and mobily training for your ankle.
What people tend to forget about infants and small children is that they are constantly exercising, eating a ton of calories, and then getting tons of sleep.
Adults, by contrast, tend to be very sedentary with slower metabolism and a ton of anxiety from stimulants/stress that prevent long, regular rest cycles.
Also, incidentally, if you really want to fuck up a child early in life... Malnutrition, immobility, anxiety, irregular sleep cycles, and lots of stimulants (particularly cigarettes) will have your teenagers looking geriatric.
The primary difference isn't the exercise but the level of human growth hormone, which starts to drop after age 30
Unless you're in the early-'00s MLB.
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Human body: I can grow a fully formed human baby OR regrow your big toe nail in like 9 months.
If you would like a brand new big toe nail, simply get pregnant and produce a baby.
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