Elijah's Hope

Elijah thought Alice would be excited but instead, she looked gloomy. He frowned.

“It can’t be that simple,” Ben interjected. “This is the spinal cord we’re dealing with. Most of the nerve cells in the central nervous system can’t undergo mitosis. If the health potion works by accelerating cell division, it can’t work on those nerve cells.”

Nerve cell division and regeneration were two different things. Mitosis is when a parent cell splits into two daughter cells which grow into their original size. It's essentially cloning. When a nerve cell regenerates, it attempts to grow its ‘arm’ from its stump.

These arms are called axons, and they connect to other neurons. It is through these axons that they transmitted nerve impulses across the body. The same signals that tell muscle fibers to contract or sensory neurons like the ones on the skin letting the brain know that it detected heat, cold, pain, or pressure.