Can one survive on one's faeces alone?

Question

Can one survive on one's faeces alone?

Answer 1

Simply, NO. Faeces has no nutritional value what so ever.

Answer 2

Here's another one for the new, long awaited 'Defecation' category.

Answer 3

why would you want to

Answer 4

I sure hope that day never happens

Answer 5

no the first meal would be nice and warm but the second course would be sh t ....iwould rather starve.like the guiness add blurgggg

Answer 6

No, you would have to drink your urine, as there is not enough fluid content in #2. you would eventually extract all of the usable content . and have to procure other nutrition

Answer 7

Im not sure if this is a serious question or not.

By definition, our digestive system extracts nearly everything out of the food before it vecomes fecal material, unless you are dealing with someone who is overeating.  Since you are talking about a survival situation, it is most probable that the body has begun digesting the fat stores on the body and suplementing it with muscle tissue digestion as well for protein.

This would make the fecies highly toxic, as most of the seriously destructive toxins are stored in our fat tissues by the body, especially if the ingested concentrations are more than the kidneys, spleen, and liver can deal with at any one time.  This is why people who go on a diet experience dark circles under their eyes, an indication of an unhealthy condition caused by the presence of toxins.

So to eat one's fecies might make the belly full, you would most certainly become sick almost immediately.

The short answer to your question is NO.  Dont eat your fecies.  Yuck!

Answer 8

I've come to the conclusion that very few people give factual answers on this site. Anyway, we actually use about 25-30% of the nutritive value of the food we eat before it is expelled. Therefore, you could live a while on f***s, but not an indefinite amount of time.

Answer 9

no -you'd die of hepatitis