• garbagebagel@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I got curious. Apparently they are from cow bones and are processed at high temps to avoid immune rejection.

    Xenogenic bone is derived from non-living bone of another species, usually a cow. The bone is processed at very high temperatures to avoid the potential for immune rejection and contamination. Like allogenic grafts, xenogenic grafts serve as a framework for bone from the surrounding area to grow and fill the void. Source

    There are different kinds of grafts though that do include cadaver or auto-grafting, but I am 99% sure my doctor said mine was cow bone.

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      2 days ago

      Yeah right. I guess if you process it so it’s just calcium or something rather than living tissue.