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by misthop
1299 days ago
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Most of our organs don't/can't self repair, so it is very surprising. Excepting skin which you may want to qualify as an organ, only the liver can regenerate. All of our other organs "repair" via scarring which may replace lesions but does not perform the function of the scarred organ. |
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That is not true. Bones heal, muscles heal, nerves grow back under some circumstances, the central nervous system compensates, every tissue fights infections and works hard to get rid of toxins where it can. These are all cases of self-repair.
Yeah some of these processes result in scarring, some of the time. That doesn’t mean it is not self repairing. In fact it is the result of the self repair!
Sorry that I jump on this, but it is incredible that we are all these advanced, beatifull, self-repairing “meat robots” and the processes work so smooth that someone doesn’t even notice all the self repairing which goes on inside their own body.
If you are wondering how an organ which stops self repairing looks like buy some meat, any meat, from a butcher and put it on your kitchen counter. It will within days start to smell bad, grow mould, liquify and eventually insects and magots will carry it away bite by tiny bite. It happens with the meat because it stopped self-repairing. It doesn’t happen with your flesh because it is constantly self-repairing.