Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5808856-20141104173641/@comment-26010249-20141110195601

Brandon Storm9 wrote: A very good point my friend, the most likely explanation is that Skurd is feeding off of Ben himself, but at the same time can be altered by the Omnitrix since he's attached to the Omnitrix. Plus I don't know if you notice this but the little guy is tiny, I can't imagine he eats much. Well no matter how he eats or if he is eating Ben's DNA, the DNA exit within the cells and in cellular division, the cell divides into 2 with both having DNA. So it explains why the former hosts seemed like they were not affected and Ben too even though Skurd has been with him for a while now.

Skurd probably accesses the Data in the omnitrix since the omnitrix became is the host. I don't know what he uses the data for but it's probably to for food.

There are some organisms that creates their own food. So he probably use the Data to transform some of his own part into something with a different DNA then consumes it in a microcellular level. Skurd can increase or expand his body so he might have been producing his own food using the DNA structures he obtains, but in a microcellular level so we can't really see it. If it's so then the host will never be affected.