Comment by free_energy_min

1 month ago

curious where you learned this. can’t seem to find anything in a quick google and LLM search about ingesting plant tar for tukdam

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krackers  1 month ago

There are references to it in https://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1dzrho6/til_... but I cannot trace to a more authoritative source

There is also an interesting comment

>I'm in the seafood business and work with dead fish all the time... I see varying length of shelf life depending on how the fish was harvested. Whatever the metabolic state is when we die is what will be in the system when you die. High stress, metabolism running full speed, and high external/internal temperature leads to short shelf life. Fish harvested when their metabolism is less excited or in a state close to homeostasis will last much longer. So why any different with humans? If you died in the Sahara running a marathon vs. froze in Antarctica while meditating you would for sure see a difference lol.

So I guess that the diet and low metabolic activity seem to be the most plausible explanation. Also supposedly in some (mythical?) very-deep meditative states the body's oxygen requirement is low enough that passive exchange suffices to keep the cells on the verge of aliveness.