Showerthoughts @lemmy.world irelephant @lemmy.world 2mo ago

Almost all of you was food at one point.

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What do you mean "almost"?
- Part of you is oxygen you inhaled.
  
  Most of that oxygen has been around I would think, but I guess some atoms would've come from recent micrometeorites or whatever.
- I guess, some bacteria might have made it into your body in other ways, but might still be considered part of you in the wider sense...?
  
  Plus there's all those microplastics mixed in there.
  
  There’s more life in your gut than cells in your whole body
- Bacteria, air inside you, implants/prostetics. Essentially just a smartass shield.
You hear it as a joke when you're young, but it's not til you're old that you realize "you are what you eat" is literal.
All of us are food all the time.
Literally all of you was either food/drink or oxygen from the air at some point—whether it was consumed by you or by your mother.
- Unless you have dental fillings or other implants.
  
  Theseus' ship wants to know if those fillings are really part of you
  
  Or if you worked an asbestos mine
Jokes on you, I'm technically food right now!
- Indeed I’m food for bears!
My sweat is just seasoning.
No, most of me was water I drank!
- You were water that YOU drank???
  
  Oh......oh this is hurting my brain trying to work this out.
Oh like all of the material of your body was food, at first I thought you just had really bad grammar and meant "all of you" meaning allb of us readers or something and all the comments were just keeping up the bit
I don't get it. Is this a joke about "swallowing" ?
- I don't think so, more like you are built of nutrients you get from food you eat so technically you are the food you ate.
  
  Thanks, maybe I should sometimes get my mind out of the gutter
*were
- Its you, singular.

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