Posted on 08/08/2024 1:31:14 AM PDT by Libloather
Olympic swimmers may have found a possible cure to beating the E. coli-riddled Seine River that has been one of the huge storylines at the 2024 Paris Olympics — a can of Coca-Cola.
Several world-class athletes swear that the sugary soda has helped them stave off bacteria and any infection they could get from competing in the open waters.
“There’s no harm in drinking a Coke after a race,” New Zealand’s Ainsley Thorpe told the Wall Street Journal after the Women’s Triathlon last week. “If you Google it, it says it can help.”
Doctors say there is no medical backing to Coke being a gastroenterological cure-all, but many athletes are still taking advice from the professionals around them in Paris.
“The myth of Coca-Cola is true,” Australian marathon swimmer Moesha Johnson said. “We will often have a Coca-Cola afterwards just to try to flush out anything inside of us.”
The Olympians have also been taking cocktails of probiotics before and after their races to combat the polluted river in Paris.
“I took pro-biotics, I drank my Yakult, I couldn’t do more,” Beligium triathlete Jolien Vermeylen said after her race on July 31. “I had the idea of not drinking water, but yes, it failed.”
Ironically enough, Vermeylen said the Seine “doesn’t taste like Coca-Cola or Sprite, of course.”
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Rum should work great then
As a child, my parents would give me coke anytime I had stomach issues. Worked like a champ.
When I was in the military we would use coke to clean certain electronics that couldn’t handle ethanol. After that I stopped drinking the ‘cleaning fluids’ that are sold for humans.
I wonder how discerning it is...
what happens to the good gut bacteria??
Invest in Probiotic Cola futures.
Coca-Cola. It removes rust from chrome, it kills e-coli.
Is there anything this miracle fluid cannot do?
“I’m from the Coca-Cola company and I have 2 things to say to you:
1) We genuinely believe that our product can help your stomach. This is a traditional use of coke.
2) We’ll pay you to drink it.”
OMG. I took a boat tour on the Seine in ‘76. It stunk then, can’t imagine what it’s like now. Wouldn’t swim in it for all of the gold medals.
I remember as a teen we drove on a road that was freshly tarred, got black good all over the place on the bodywork. Coke and a rag took it off quite nicely!
/good/goop/
I think I got autocowrecked.
My Dad showed me how Coke would clean the corroded battery connections in my 1970 Maverick. I was 16, but I realized I did not need that in my stomach.
“If you Google it, it says it can help.”
There’s a scary statement.
I always go buy a coke when I have a bit of stomach or intestinal discomfort. It works.
My parents gave me 7 Up.
I bet Deep State’s, plural, are really getting off convincing world class athletes to swim in a sewer...
Antimicrobial Effect of Cola on Several Microorganisms
Now I still wouldn't go swimming in a sewer...
But if I fell in, and I couldn't get a prophylactic dose of antibiotics from a doc (it's easier to get opioids in my neck of the woods), I'd quaff cola. Not a Coke. I gave up Coke after it went woke. Drank it for decades. Now I haven't for years.
Note to said swimmers, if you’re on proton pump inhibitors for GERD and you’re swimming in that sewer while still on them, you need your heads examined.
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