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[โ€“] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Healing factor - always-on healing.

Don't we already have that?

[โ€“] deranger@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago

Sometimes the always on healing works so good cells start doing things like reactivating telomerase and ignoring the signals for programmed cell death and become cancer, sometimes turning effectively immortal.

Not for everything and not good enough though.

Especially for something as complex as mental illnesses/trauma your body has hardly any ability to heal by itself.

Though then we can get pedantic: How long should you feel down when someone you love died? Because I don't consider it a bad thing for something like this to take a while before healing. It'd suck to attend their funeral having completely healed already.