I was recently watching a documentary
about people who proclaim themselves
vampires and drink human blood. I remember
reading somewhere that consuming human
blood is actually bad for your system, but
I cannot remember if this is true or not.
Does anyone know? Also, these people claim
to gain some positive nourishment from
drinking the blood. Do they actually gain
anything?
*note: I personally do not condone this
practice
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Tylanas
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Posted: 09-06-07 09:28am
I have also heard of people who drink
human blood and gain nourishment from it.
CSI even did and episode on it.
The thing is, drinking blood will make
most people nauseous. It's not because
it's harmful in any way (aside from
diseases, but we're assuming a clean blood
supply), but it's the taste and
consistency that does it. Soured milk
won't hurt you at all either (again, as
long as it went sour in the refridgerator
and doesn't have diseases) but the taste,
texture and smell causes most people to
vomit.
Obviously, consuming your own blood is of
no benefit since you had to make it in the
first place.
You can't say blood isn't a good source of
nutrients, because it is! It's just
normally not enough to sustain a human.
Some tribes in africa actually make
milkshakes with milk and cow blood and
drink them, so blood consumption is
nothing new.
The medical world is still debating the
issue of people who need to consume blood
to survive. I doubt there will be any
serious consensus on it any time soon.
