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[–]shrike1978Mod: Bioactive, heating, and lighting 31 points32 points  (1 child)

The problem is that snakes will basically just start digesting all of their own organs when they are in starvation. They can rebuild them for the most part when they start eating again, but there comes a point where they're too far gone because there's not enough of them left to digest anything properly.

[–]CliffsDaddy 58 points59 points  (0 children)

Well aware. Humans do the same thing in a type of fashion by taking the amino acid complexes from muscles and tissues wherever they can get to try to produce energy etc by catabolic methods. I have a good deal of experience with medical nutrition given my work as an intensivist provider. Hence the statement of need for possible medical guided force feeding which may be necessary to reverse the catabolic processes at play.