"Using the whole oxygen tank, Doc?"
Posted on 05/14/2021 11:09:13 AM PDT by BenLurkin
When pressed for oxygen, some fish and sea cucumbers will use their lower intestines to get a little extra out of their environment. Now, a team of Japanese researchers say that mammals are also capable of respirating through their rectal cavity, at least in a lab setting.
The team’s research is published today in the journal Med and describes the capacity for mice, rats, and pigs to survive longer and have more strength in low-oxygen circumstances when given oxygen gas or an oxygen-rich liquid through their rectums, in a process similar to an enema. While fish like loaches and catfish use a similar method to gain additional oxygen in the natural world, this doesn’t appear to be an evolutionary adaptation for mammals. In other words, mammalian bodies can’t naturally do this, but with a little push from modern science, it becomes possible. Previous research has seen oxygen injected directly into mammalian bloodstreams, prolonging the lives of rabbits, but the rectal approach to the low-oxygen problem is novel.
The experiment, while disturbing, was designed to find new ways to save the lives of people whose lungs are failing.
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Of course democommies usually talk out of their.........
“At least, in a lab setting”
You put on that white lab coat and you can do a lot of things.
The new insult....cleaned up.....somewhat.....
Up your donkey with a tube of gas!
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Babies can breath exclusively through their belly buttons.
“The experiment, while disturbing”
WANTED: Subjects to participate in scientific experiment. We stick your head in water while shoving a plastic tube up your rectum. Survivors receive $50.
“Guess I’ll go. The fraternity initiation was worse.”
Well heck, I knew that without the expensive experimentation...
Woke fascists talk out of their ass so must be able to breathe as well.
Wouldn’t it be cool if some kind of oxygenated compound could be fed intestionally or intravenously, instead of respired?
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“Mammals are also capable of respirating through their anal cavity”
The Red Cross has not approved this new form of artificial respiration.
Didn’t know about intake but knew about outgo of air.
There’s lots of mammals in Congress who talk out their arse. No word on whether they have a functional thinker.
So what? Democrats talk out of their azz holes...
How much did this study cost the taxpayers and WHY?
“Previous research has seen oxygen injected directly into mammalian bloodstreams, prolonging the lives of rabbits”
They do it with Humans already(not the butt thing). It is called a “heart/lung machine”. Also another process for when lungs are too diseased even for a ventilator is called “ECMO” or “extracorporeal machine oxygenation. The blood supply going to the lungs is bypassed via a tube thru the neck through a special machine oxygenator to allow time for stressed lungs to heal and regain function.
Pretty sure I can exhale.
“Mammals can breathe through their intestines..”
Another excuse for bad breath.
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