Hypoxia and Medicine

Is there a medical condition that dictates a person to feed purely on human flesh?

I need this information for a book I'm writing. Is there a medical condition that makes the patient eat only human flesh and all other foods would no longer be so beneficial to him? Thanks.

Public Comments

1. Yes.....f***in' nutter!!
2. You're on drugs right?
3. I saw something about this on an episode of CSI, Google it....
4. No, no such condition. That doesn't mean that you can't make one up, and name it too
5. No. Purely living from any meat would be a horribly unbalanced diet. Why not settle for a deluded genius character?
6. no, but there is an ancient disease that causes people to desire human blood. This is what caused people to believe in vampires
7. Oh goody.. another Zombie novel.. the world needs that like a kind of disease that gives you a medical condition that makes you eat only human fle... oh cripes..
8. Have you done any research in the area of "eating disorders" or "vitamin & mineral deficiencies"? I would think that it could also be linked in with mental or nervous disorders too. That's where I would look to get into some of the things that might fuel a human to feel the need to eat another human! Good luck. Let me know when your book is ready...I'd love to read this!
9. I am not sure There is an iron disorder that I beleive was linked to ancient vampire legends called Porphyria other than that - my only thought was to attribute the desire to a psychological condition rather than a physical one interestingly - i remember someone saying to me that the only meat that a human cannot live off of is rabbit - it causes a build up of a certain chemical that will kill you within a few days if you only eat rabbit
10. not really BUT there is something known as PICA, when you have pica, you crave to eat some strange things- that's what drives poor kids to eat paint chips... also I guess starvation would make you look at your spouse very differently
11. Cannibalism...lmao
12. in the Arabic culture there is a written with copy writes for condition like this (not a medical condition ). when Human body infested by Genny some times he eats only row meet & in very rare conditions he eats only human flesh. any way i am arabic & i am a doctor i have seen humen bodies infested by genny ( which is obviosly diferentiated from psyciatric cases ) i belive in the presence of this case as it is mentioned in Qura'an (i mean Human body infested by genny but not what he eats ) the treatment needed is only to read Qur'ran in front of the patient but the time depends on the power of the genny & the level of belive in the reader . now i'll till you this ; i've never sow a man eating man , i wish to die before i see this . i hope this helps in writing your book. oh i rememberd other thing ; in hill some pepol will eat only others ( those are who talk badly about thier friends in thier back) that is what we belive as writen in Qur'ran ( the speach of the god Allah )
13. There's a story like this in one of the John Douglas books; can't remember which cos I've read them all. The guy isn't physically dependent on eating human flesh (or on drinking human blood) he just believes he is. He killed a few people before he got caught.
14. ?Are you looking for an excuse?