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[Elder Scrolls] Can a person live solely off of healing potions?

I'm guessing different races have different dietary requirements (bosmer are physically able to live without any plant material, beast races probably *couldn't* live off of a plant-only diet, but human races have more human-like diets). Would a healing potion bypass the need to take in nutrition? If so, would it work just as effectively for all races?
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Healing potions wouldn't bypass basic nutritional needs. They contain certain chemicals and plants, usually augmented by magic, in order to provoke a specific reaction - usually an increased metabolic process to heal wounds in the body, or restore a body to a previous state by undoing damage. However, everything that potions heal are external - things like physical wounds or poisons, rather than effecting the "base" needs or changes a person goes through.