Have you tried using lobster blood to moisturize your human flesh?

[thomdunn]

Originally published at: Have you tried using lobster blood to moisturize your human flesh? | Boing Boing

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[theophrastus]

(part of “compound chem”'s typically excellent poster series … just updated with Nobel prize for “click chemistry”)

by the bye…

The protein, hemocyanin, is a key ingredient in the skin cream that Patrick Breeding, 27, and Amber Boutiette, 29, distribute from a bare-bones, former steel factory on the outskirts of Portland. Breeding said the protein helps lobsters fight off diseases, boosts their immune system,

as a blood protein whose function is ‘only’ associated with oxygen transport (like hemoglobin does for humans) i’ll cock an eye of nerdly skepticism at “helps lobsters fight off diseases, boosts their immune system” …by dint of keeping them alive, perhaps?

[ChuckV]

How does it compare to brining?

[Otherbrother]

I’m reminded of the movie The Lobster, where people who fail to find love are transformed into an animal of their choosing:

Hotel Manager: Now have you thought of what animal you’d like to be if you end up alone?

David: Yes. A lobster.

Hotel Manager: Why a lobster?

David: Because lobsters live for over one hundred years, are blue-blooded like aristocrats, and stay fertile all their lives. I also like the sea very much.

Heck, they could probably sell the blood as a fertility treatment as well.

[Mister44]

Do you want crab (lobster) people, because that is how you get crab (lobster) people!

[Surprise_Puma]

I always assumed lobster blood was just butter.

[Papasan]

It cures “bong lung” too. Proven science.

[FGD135]

Is this supposed to be a drinking game?

[Jabberwocky]

[Brainspore]

Perhaps the Lars homestead was actually a moisturizer farm?

[Tamsin_Bailey]

Aunt Beru tried it but eventually her skin dried out.

[Brainspore]

[Mindysan33]

[iknownuurthing]

No, but I have found that human blood moisturizes a lobster to perfection (Gas Mark 3, 20 mins).
Scrummy.

[Scientist]

@thomdunn

the protein helps lobsters fight off diseases, boosts their immune system, and plays an important role in regenerating their claws and other limbs.

So if it works for lobsters, they speculated, why not for humans?

In the exact same way that hemoglobin helps me write this post, so if I inject some hemoglobin into lobsters why wouldn’t they be able to write

I’m all for making the most out of food waste, but this is just another snake lobster oil salesman

[fuzzyfungus]

I wonder if selecting an oxygen transport protein taps into that intuitively appealing well of the-blood-is-the-life crypto-vitalism; or if it just happened to be the scientific-sounding component that’s relatively easy to separate from economically priced food waste?

[BakaNeko]