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The Food Patch

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LordRaiden

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It seems that the US military has invented a transdermal food patch that allows the wearer to get all the vitamins and nutrients they need on the go without eating. It works very similar to a nicotine patch, only this delivers vitamins and nutrients to your body via a wearable patch. Sounds like something I could really use on those coding marathons of mine. I wonder if they'll be making a Caffein patch? 😀 😉
 
Well, I agree. I like to eat too much to give up eating for some stupid patch. However, the benefits do tend to lend themselves to some promising uses. Think about it? Long distance runner tends to burn out almost all their energy by the end of the race thus risking death in some cases. Or with some victims of accidents where they're unable to eat. I think this would be a good thing as you could slap it on their arm and it could distribute both the needed nutrients and maybe even some medicins that they would need to keep going after the injury.

But I agree more with the military's take on this about endurance uses. People who regularly push themselves to the limit would find this very useful in that it could be like a slap on power bar, but without the needed digestive wait. Plus if it delivered its product over a period of time, the added energy and nutrients could actually be a plus for the runner or athlete in general.
 
But I agree more with the military's take on this about endurance uses. People who regularly push themselves to the limit would find this very useful in that it could be like a slap on power bar, but without the needed digestive wait. Plus if it delivered its product over a period of time, the added energy and nutrients could actually be a plus for the runner or athlete in general.

I'll give you a little lesson in Nutrition. When you exercise, you need sugar that is turned into Glucose then in turn burned for fuel. When you run out of Glucose, you burn Glycogen in your muscles. When your Glycogen is gone, you stop.

This patch will give you nothing more than some added electrolytes to use. And applying it to the skin will do nothing, since anything outside of the lining of the mouth absorbs too slow to get anything into your bloodstream.
 
Well that looks at once interesting and useless. It omits one very important thing. Calories. Think I will stay with my multivite.
 
Medications such as nicotine patches and transderm scop are the same way. I doubt it's meant as a replacement for food, that would just suck.
 
Originally posted by: LordRaiden
It seems that the US military has invented a transdermal food patch that allows the wearer to get all the vitamins and nutrients they need on the go without eating. It works very similar to a nicotine patch, only this delivers vitamins and nutrients to your body via a wearable patch. Sounds like something I could really use on those coding marathons of mine. I wonder if they'll be making a Caffein patch? 😀 😉
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There is only one problem, macronutriens cannot penetrate the skin unless they are dissolved before...

Therefore, instead of taking pills, they can use patches, but they will still need food...
 
Originally posted by: Hayabusarider
Well that looks at once interesting and useless. It omits one very important thing. Calories. Think I will stay with my multivite.
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True, calories (energy) is needed and is taking a pill to get the nutrients the patch can apply really that much harder than applying a patch?
 
What I could see this as good for is like....

In the areas of Africa and Asia that have mal nutrition, but not due to a lack of calories. You know.. like only eating rice or grain or corn or something like that. These people need vitamins and minerals but not necesecescarily calories. This could help malnutrition alot.

Espically in those areas in China surviving on almost all rice, or those areas in Africa where people don't get enough nutrients from their diet.

It'd also make things like keeping astronauts alive much easier, since they wouldn't have to worry about getting all of their vitamins and minerals. They could just bring the most calorie rich thing they had at the time and survive offa patches for their vitamins/minerals.

 
Originally posted by: FishTankX
What I could see this as good for is like....

In the areas of Africa and Asia that have mal nutrition, but not due to a lack of calories. You know.. like only eating rice or grain or corn or something like that. These people need vitamins and minerals but not necesecescarily calories. This could help malnutrition alot.

Espically in those areas in China surviving on almost all rice, or those areas in Africa where people don't get enough nutrients from their diet.

It'd also make things like keeping astronauts alive much easier, since they wouldn't have to worry about getting all of their vitamins and minerals. They could just bring the most calorie rich thing they had at the time and survive offa patches for their vitamins/minerals.
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But vitamins and minerals are not enough, you also need the essential amino and fatty acids, and is applying a patch really that much easier to do than swallowing a pill?
 
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