In Zombie time for Halloween: what happens if you eat brains?

If you are a zombie movie fan, you may have seen this a thousand times already: a human-like creature walking aimlessly and craving brains. Human brains. But what does this actually mean, is the brain even tasty?

Why movie makers and comic writers chose the brain as the zombies’ target is easy to understand. The brain is the core of our neurological functions and a vital organ: they could have chosen the liver as a target, but the effect wouldn’t be as dramatic.

 


In this cool video by Youtube channel Life Noggin, you can learn some facts in an animated video that they have made about: what would happen if a human eats a brain? One of the most dangerous things is developing an very scary infectious disease called Kuru, which a tribe in Papua New Guinea contracted after eating human brain tissue…

If you want to learn more, you can visit their Youtube channel here.