7 of them went home and never spoke of it again.
And yeah, it turns out that mammals can absorb oxygen through their butts. Weird
Which sounds like a fake urban legend, but I would never discount want an addict is capable of doing.
most of this was just done because drinks were too expensive or hard to get for high schoolers and they had to optimise their alcohol supplies
Wow. TIL...
In this case it's high schoolers, half of whom most likely have no sexual experience but are fully willing to explore their anal cavity, having access to alcohol but not that much access.
They can get drunk off small amounts of alcohol, but it's such a small ration that they are freezing and destroying their limited amount of beer (which most high schoolers hate) to shove up their butts, to get drunk slightly faster? How much frozen beer can one butt fit? Is it really that much better than holding your nose and pounding it in front of your friends? Are high schoolers really going to parties with beer in their butts to maybe get a buzz of two beers from one butt beer because they only have access to one twelve pack, instead of just telling everyone how they are so wasted instead?
I see what you did there.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/the-secret-to-turtle-hi...
My vague understanding is that oxygen intake is a big limiting factor in aerobic activities hence measurement of things like vo2max in sports science. ‘Blood doping’ has similar benefits though it’s also about having more blood period.
It seems unlikely that one could take a big enough suppository to help in a meaningful way in a marathon, but in a middle distance race lasting only a few minutes…
Different story for apnea sports like freediving where a little bit of extra oxygen goes a long way.
But oxygen dissolved or otherwise absorbed in a material is fair game. Even without anything fancy, water can contain about 1% free oxygen, which is 8x what you could do with gaseous oxygen (which is in turn 5x what atmospheric mixture has).
And there are a lot of chemical reactions that can produce oxygen much better than 1%. The trick is going to be avoiding heat changes.
You could probably do it once..
This is being talked about in the ballpark of partial assistance during severe respiratory failure so more like delaying organ damage during a crisis than boosting peak athletic performance.
Edit: goodells explained it better!
Now I'm wondering if I should get certified to dive with an anal rebreather too.
I am relieved for them.
"...I'm a butt breather."
Fix sleep apnea with this one weird trick!
Why are new CPAP machines so uncomfortable?
Anecdatally, I have encountered multiple people with congenital capabilities re enteral locution via anus.
Wishfully, training astronauts for enteral ventilation via anus during extravehicular activities that involve writing an ongoing Prince song would be called “EVA EVA 4EVA.”
DOI: 10.1016/j.medj.2025.100887
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.)
Wow, so cool! And the results are such valuable science!
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Much better in every way.
> “This is the first human data and the results are limited solely to demonstrating the safety of the procedure and not its effectiveness,” said co-author Takanori Takebe of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and the University of Osaka in Japan. “But now that we have established tolerance, the next step will be to evaluate how effective the process is for delivering oxygen to the bloodstream.”
If it’s proven to be effective and can help avoid ventilators for (at least some) people, it would be a huge breakthrough and improvement in the quality of life for the patient and for their close ones.
So this is about oxygen delivery specifically, but I can't help but wonder if whoever came up with the old idea was onto something...
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