auto canabalism

[topogigo]

If you were stranded and starving, and if it was actually feasible, if you cut off your arm and ate it would you survive longer?

[rojash]

I imagine you'd bleed to death before you could finish eating it!

[heathfield]

Your body would actually undertake this process of 'autophagy' within itself, without your having to cut your arm off.

[john91]

If you did survive, you would have problems cutting the other arm off if you were still hungry.

[Lovinit]

wouldn't enjoy being stranded with you topogigo :P

[knobbynonuts]

oi topogigo you nicked my idea I have always had this theory and finnaly got round to trying to post it on here last night but for some reason it did not get on here so well p**ded of now.
Your names not jenny from chadwell heath by any chance are you as she first got me into this theory many years ago and my apologies if you are male......

[mibn2cweus]

laughfing tho harth I juth bih my thongue, thammih!

[themanwhowas]

if youre wondering what heathfield is talking about, i believe your body begins to break down its not so vital organs in order to keep the vital organs alive for longer.
if you was to cut your arm off in anticipation of starvation, then i would assume that the nutrients that are currently being pumped around your body would ommit feeding the muscles in the missing arm, thus allowing the nutrients to feed other parts of the body for longer. eating said arm would provide extra nutrients which in turn would feed the rest of you.
so yes. if you cut off your arm and ate it, without bleeding, or at least drinking the blood, then you would live longer. the less vital organs your body is feeding the longer the vital organs can be sustained. so in times of starvation you should eat both arms, both legs, your bum cheeks etc