Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26153610-20150305125025

Unlike what my name suggest, I am not a medical doctor - rather a scientist - but I do have some basic knowledge is this area. As such, I would be grateful if others, especially those with medical training answer/comment on this (which is a moot point now):

Couldn't Mount Weather have used Grounder bonemarrow?!

OK, with a blood transfusion, Grounder blood allows one to recover from radiation and isn't as good as Sky People blood at filtering radiation when outside - but even so, with 1 treatment sky people blood only survives for 4-5 minutes. With that, Tsing had a sudden epiphany of using bonemarrow - why, after using Grounder blood for decades, did they never think - "Hey!! Lets use Grounder bonemarrow!"?

Granted, it would take a while for it to kick in, but once the body has adjusted and only preduces "Grounder blood", Mountain Men should have had no difficulties surviving on the ground!

Or is there something I am missing here?

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