Everything has a chemical compound, I just don’t get why it would be impossible to make real blood at home using chemicals.
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Because blood is not just simple chemicals.
Blood has 4 main components, Red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets, and plasma.
Red Blood cells are the cells that move oxygen around the body, and they are full blow, complex cells, not simple chemical compounds.
White blood cells are the cells of your immune system that fight off infections, again, they’re foul blow complex cells with DNA and proteins and organelles etc etc.
Now platelets are much much simple and much smaller, they’re essentially little protein bundles that for blood clots to stop bleeding. Maybe you could generate these synthetically, but it’s probably be difficult.
Now plasma, plasma is the one that you might be able to generate at home. Plasma is essentially just “everything else” in the blood. Plasma is 92% water, and then 8% other sugars, fats, proteins, and nutrients floating around in the water.
Getting all those individual things might be a pain, but if you just needed to raise blood pressure/rehydrate a person, you could use saline (salt water) to replace plasma for the most part.
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