#body functions

What I found from a few different sources was that yes on average the body takes 7-10 years to regenerate, but that’s not a great way to measure it in my opinion because of the wide range of time different areas of the body take to regenerate individually.

For a few examples, the lining in our stomach regenerates every ten days, while cells in our skeleton can take the full 10 years for a complete renewal process. And parts of our brain stay the same our entire lives.

Do you guys pee?

*runs away*

Hahaha! Yeah. We're living beings, so of course we do.

Ew. Why even ask a question like that? And why answer it? You could have pretended we never got it.

... Why not? If I didn't know humans who are happy to tell me when they need to go, I'd probably have asked the same question. And "pretending we never got" an uncomfortable ask is just mean!

You're disgusting.

Why? What's wrong with a bit of interspecies curiosity?

For once, Starscream, we agree. I dislike such subjects, myself. It is... crude.

Bumblebee is a youngling. I guess, sometimes, younglings will be younglings.

You want to know about this sort of thing as well, I take it?

Well... I guess I'm a little curious about how they manage...

Autobots! Ugh. You disgust me.

I'm going to my room! Frag lunch.

Starscream! Language!

... I am going to my room, too.

Miserable pair. I guess you'll want me to leave your food outside your doors...

Hhhh...

Touchy, aren't they?

... Yeah.

Here is a comic about bodily functions. Thanks as ever to the beautiful humans who are supporting the comics. Pay tree on dot com slash tomor judy ... if you like the comics please consider joining and helping me pay for my hormones and stuff.

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Everything is Somewhat Repaired: Body Functions of the Studio System cw: dysphoria, bodily functions

Corona virus* left me with a desperate hacking cough. It's at the crossroads between uncontrollable body function, voice dysphoria... as well as just being plain gross.

How would Joan Crawford cough up a lung? She would initially seem mortally wounded and then regain composure with an intimidating authority.

What would Jean Harlow's hiccups be like? She would be playfully frustrated, drink a glass of water backwards and then somehow, in curing herself, pass them on to you.

Imagine holding back Marilyn Monroes's hair while she vomited? Afterwards, she would take a deep breath, a small relieved laugh and then would give you the most sincere thank you you ever heard.

Most foods we eat are an explosion of flavor. But the tongue itself only detects a few major tastes — sweet, salt, sour, bitter and umami (that’s savory). Notice anything missing? Where is the taste for fat? It’s much of what makes butter, cream and bacon so delicious. A new study now confirms that yes, the brain knows when fat enters the mouth.

Explainer: Taste and flavor are not the same

Taste buds sit on the tongue. So researchers dripped different concentrations of fat right onto people’s tongue. The brain at once sparked with activity. And it happened as quickly as the brain registers other tastes, such as sweet and salty. This could mean that fat itself is truly one of the basic tastes, joining the ranks of sweet and sour.  

To be an official basic taste, this sense should fulfill certain criteria. For instance, the tongue should have a receptor for it — a specific molecule that serves as a docking station for qualifying molecules. There also should be specific distinctions, different types of fat that we can taste.