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How does digestion and nutrition work exactly? 2016-07-24 17:36:39 Post No. 2174417
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How does digestion and nutrition work exactly?
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You ever notice that it doesn't matter whether it's a plant you're eating originated from South America or a bird from Asia, we're able to digest and get nutrition from them all? I mean, can we literally eat almost anything living on Earth? Short of poisonous things of course.
Is there an explanation as to why we are able to consume such a wide variety of flora and fauna? If we literally just discovered a new species for the first time in human history, chances are,we'd be able to eat them. Heck, if we cloned dinosaurs, we'd be able to eat them too.
Am I the only one who's weirded out by this? Can our cells recognize other Earth based lifeforms somehow?
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>>2174417
1. you can't digest most plants.
2. animals are all made out of the same thing.
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The DNA structure of the thing you're eating doesn't matter to your digestive system, as its function is to break down the thing you're eating and extract the building blocks from which it's made (nutrients, minerals, vitamins, etc).
Think of it as taking apart an old brick castle and reusing the materials to build something else entirely, like a school. Sure there'll be leftover material that was only useful in the context of the original building, but that can be thrown away.
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