Why do bodies not rot when we’re alive?

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I was at the beach today thinking I’m basically just a slab of meat in the sun. How come I don’t rot? What prevents living things from decomposing and how does that change when we die?

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The immune system. The job of the immune system is to stop microorganisms from causing you to rot while you’re alive. It hunts down invaders and kills them. When it fails you get things like flesh eating bacteria, gangrene………….

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