Just imagine that as soon as a baby is born, maybe even while the baby is developing in the womb, doctors take all of the blood and bone marrow out and replace it with a superior substitute - like a serum the generates oxygen all on it's own. Do you think that it would be the first stepping stone towards immortality?
2007-01-28 12:20:00 · 3 answers · asked by Jerse 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Medicine
If there was something superior to the blood we have, we would have evolved to have it.
2007-01-28 12:43:48 · answer #1 · answered by sankayak 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Um, no. There is a lot more to blood than just blood cells. There are platelets and white blood cells and MILLIONS of different kinds of antibodies and lots of different hormones and they are all at diffferent levels in different people. There would be no way to duplicate that. If we replaced everyone's blood with the same "serum" type stuff, some people could reject the serum and go into multiple system failure. We also wouldn't eliminate any diseases by doing this because bacteria, viruses, fungi etc. live everywhere and they will find a way to live in this new serum just as in blood. There are so many other things that wouldn't work as far as the human physiology in this but it would make this message way too long. I really don't think it would help us out because blood is the way it is for a reason.
2007-01-28 21:18:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
JERSE,
UNTIL YOU LEARN ABOUT ANATOMY YOU WON'T UNDERSTAND WHY WE NEED BLOOD TO EXIST.
2007-01-28 20:29:19 · answer #3 · answered by Dr. Albert, DDS, (USA) 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋