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[–] 46 points 4 months ago (6 children)

Apart from specific non-proliferating cells, statistically all of your entire body's cells will have been completely replaced every 7 years*.

So we're all exactly like that... just over such a long period of time we don't notice it.

*For the quickest proliferating cells in your body, like your skin cells, this is a matter of just weeks.

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  • [–] 25 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    iirc nerve cells basically live forever. So I'm the end, you'll completely regenerate, except for your nerve cells

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah but those cells still have proteins making new parts.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    And new neurons are being made all the time, just more slowly and in specific places that then migrate to where they're needed, so as not to disrupt too much of the neural mesh (and thus completely derail memories or other models).

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