What would you do if you were stranded on a deserted island and your only option was to eat human flesh?
We define cannibalism as a backward situation peculiar to some African tribes, but there are different examples of cannibalism that we encounter in nature.
First, cannibalism is a common phenomenon in insects, snails, and amphibians.
For example, some types of spiders eat their young. But when it comes to mammals, cannibalism is a rare occurrence. It usually occurs due to environmental stressors. To give another example, rabbits can react to the stressors around them by eating their cubs (How cute they look).
In humans, the situation is similar to other mammals, but differs in many respects.
French paleontologists have found traces of cannibalism in 100,000-year-old Neanderthal bones. It was found that a group of people ate other people by removing their brain and bone marrow.
Even in the 20th century, a person’s medical belief that he can get rid of some diseases by drinking the blood of another person; that is, “medical cannibalism” existed.
This paved the way for diseases that could be transmitted through blood. But beyond that, the danger posed by the protein called prion in the human body is beyond all these diseases.
The human body is literally a storehouse of red meat. Our knees alone are worth 10,000 calories. This goes up to 81,000 calories in the entire human body.
Human flesh contains a type of protein called prion. This protein interacts with other proteins, transforming them into itself, and disrupts the structure of the other protein with a series of chain reactions.
Prion disease causes holes in the brain, just like in a sponge.
Scientists who observed the laughing disease “Kuru” in a tribe in Africa in the 1950s that ate human flesh revealed that the cause was a prion disease caused by cannibalism.
This disease resulted in tribesmen laughing out of the blue and eventually dying vomitably. Although this disease is seen regularly in cannibalists, be you, do not even think about eating human flesh!
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