Yes, you can. As long as you get the elements that you're meant to get and you nom on some fat occasionally, you should survive.

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Back up your claims with evidence and you'll look like a pro.

Damn right, but the point was that someone on this thread suggested the nutrients being transferred into your system, intestines, straight through your body's layers of skin, fat, muscle and other tissue. And what is to discuss about this is that I don't see any sense in this, after all, the discussion really was about the mere question of can we survive on pure nutrients? This is really not related to any sci-fi matrix growing-of-humans-in-capsules-with-all-kinds-of-tubes-going-inside-of-them.

Taking the question in the first post of the thread, the op is asking if we could survive on pure nutrients. Well uh.. Here's some info to you guys what is a nutrient: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutrient (good ol' wikipedia, diss me if you want)

In my honest opinion I think it's more likely for you to be healthy eating 100% carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins and minerals than eating 50% of the former and 50% of glass, eh? I just answered the question of the first post.

Moreover, what we enjoy in food is its taste and texture. I suppose in the faaaar future it will become common to have personally designed packages of all nutrients you need to keep in prime shape, and these will be available in different tastes, shapes, textures and colours, so far and so forth. I don't see the matter relevant today, we can't force everyone to live a perfectly balanced lifestyle when it comes to nutrition.

Those are absolutely disgusting. While suffering from Anaplastic Thyroid cancer and being unable to eat, my grandfather had one of those. It was disgusting, and it caused him a great deal of pain. The substances that were injected into him periodically(as he was unable to eat food/drink water) were basically what you describe. He survived off of those for almost 4 months. He dreaded being injected with it, as it was apparently painful and felt weird.

I prefer manually ingesting stuff.

I heard that people can survive off of beer and water. Would this be possible? And if the alcohol was bothering, they take it out, then would this work?

Vox Moderated Message:

Who did you hear this from? If you provide your source we can scrutinise it with you so that you can learn the proper critical thinking to know weather a source is telling the truth or not.

Yes, we can do this.

For example people in comas obviously do not eat, they are injected with nutrients though an IV.

I don't really like injections, so if it was able to be taken orally I would go with that instead.



@vox: 'whether' not 'weather'

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it bad to take injections everday?
It'd ruin your skin(infections?), people would litter, druggies would take advantage of this idea and millions of dollars would be wasted just for another way to absorb energy.

Just put on shoes and go for a run, it'd save the environment, the economy and people's time.

Injections as in straight to blood stream? No, we need proteins, fats and carbohydrates, many nutrients can't be transferred straight into your blood, obviously. The most logical thing is to produce compact packs containing all nutrients in balance, which would be regularly eaten.

Vox, it was my brother. So I searched it online, but I didn't find any normal sources.

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The edit button is your friend, look down and right :3

We could insert feeding tubes during the night as we sleep then we wouldn't have to eat during the day.

Also Water, Air and Sun for 3 months? I would be puking, I think he's feeling like shit and if he doesn't he's a decent actor like I am when I have migrains.

Don't get me started on this.. You can't concentrate your eating period to one even 8-hour period of the day. You would feel very well, if not too well, fed during the morning and throughout the day your energy level would rapidly lower from very high to very low- no, that is why you can't just eat one massive meal and not eat during the rest of the day at all, it just doesn't work.