I apologize, I'm new and not very attentive. I do remember the logic however was unable to find the source. Your body heals approximately 10x slower than your tongue. The claim is that without naturally evolving to the state that both healed equally as fast as you've outlined. It's if by some miracle your body started to heal at the same rate, your body in it's current state would not be able to convert food to energy fast enough to maintain the level and speed of healing. And your caloric intake would need to (I can only assume) 10x what it currently is, and that's a lot of food. I'm sorry to hear of your ED, I trust you recognize I'm not attempting to be pedantic or triggering, I intended this to be as the title stated, a fun fact that people don't believe is true.
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I did not realize there were inquiries: Please excuse me, I'm new.
Your tongue is the fastest healing organ in your entire body, it uses an excessive amount of energy in order to heal your tongue 10x faster than the rest of your body. If your entire body were to heal at this rate, with the amount that your skin naturally replaces itself, compimented with the increased demand, you would starve to death.
I was also not able to find a source for this. There was a source outlining and comparing the healing speed of the tongue by comparison to the body.
If your body healed as fast as your tongue you would starve to death.
My last one was a bit confusing. Here's one
the word Helicopter is not as you'd think. Heli-copter.
The word is Helico, to mean spinning
and pter, as in feather, like pterodactyl
so the pronounciation is helico-ter.
P.S. I'm so sorry.