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Rectal oxygen delivery might soon be a real medical treatment

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> The team recruited 27 healthy adult men in Japan, each of whom received a dose of non-oxygenated perfluorodecalin via the anus. They were asked to retain the liquid for a full hour as the dosage slowly increased from 25 to 1,500 mL. Twenty of the men successfully completed the experiment.

7 of them went home and never spoke of it again.

That's a lot of liquid to retain, it would feel very weird

But it would feel amazing upon release

I've you've ever had to drink 1 gallon of that salty stuff before a colonoscopy, this sounds similar.

That sounds like an amazing sh*t.

How did they advertise this experiment?

Please, quiet down. Thank you all, for accepting my personal invitation and coming tonight.

As you can see, there is only a carrot in front of you, but that is not to say that this dinner will be uneventfull or unfulfilling. On the contrary, I believe. In fact, I hope you will accept my humble request that we let our mouths be free for candid conversation, and the colon for breathing. It will be an evening like none you have ever seen, I assure you, my dear medical students.

So "blowing smoke up one's arse" isn't a completely baseless resuscitation technique after all.

Haha I said the same

Excuse me, I just gotta go unblock my airway.

> it did provide a handy plot point for the 1989 film The Abyss, in which a rat is able to “breathe” in a similar liquid

Yes.. a rat..

(The statute of spoiler limitations is definitely over, so rather than being coy I'll say that a person undergoes the same procedure, under duress, in an particularly dramatic scene. It's a great movie but I fear its effects won't feel like they've held up well for anybody watching it for the first time.)

"Are you a nose or mouth breather?"

"...I'm a butt breather."

Fix sleep apnea with this one weird trick!

Why are new CPAP machines so uncomfortable?

I think we can now finally spell it as we've always been tempted to. Continuous R.. A.. P

Here comes the next anally focused franchise opportunity for Southern California

To think I've been doing breathing wrong all these years...

that means we can now smoke two cigarettes at once?

>Yes, they gave the animals enemas.

I am relieved for them.

This is like the intro to the Squdbillies episode where Dan Halen makes the octowing chicken, but instead of that is ass lungs.

Welcome to the future, we have ass lungs now.

So blowing smoke up someone's xxxx is actually beneficial

Another great post from Arse Technica

"We were promised flying cars, instead we got butt breathing."

I dunno, if this means we can swim underwater and live in undersea cities, I'd consider it an okay tradeoff!

I think that Thiel would actually like this. Both because it's progress in the "world of atoms," as he says, but also because it's "blood boy" adjacent.

> ...they gave the animals enemas. They then induced respiratory failure...

Wow, so cool! And the results are such valuable science!

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