Your Gut Has Taste Receptors

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070820175426.htm ^ | 8-21-2007 | Mouny Sinai School Of Medicine

[Jaysun]

This is very interesting. I saw an infomercial recently in which they claimed that the colon or intestines performed many of the functions that we’ve always associated with the brain. I thought that was nonsense. I still do.

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

Let me the first to say that we are fortunate that our butts don’t have taste receptors...

[SIDENET]

Your Gut Has Taste Receptors

And in my case, they have a taste for BEER.

[SIDENET]

Let me the first to say that we are fortunate that our butts don’t have taste receptors...

Very true!

[SampleMan]

Is this why everything has been tasting like crap lately?

[martin_fierro]

[expatguy]

I'm not sure why, but that photo weirds me the hell out.

An American Expat in Southeast Asia

[Publius]

So that explains homosexuality!

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

Can’t you leave the butt pirates out of it!? :)

[TASMANIANRED]

That is a gem...

[Kevmo]

BMFLR

[null and void]

I saw an infomercial recently in which they claimed that the colon or intestines performed many of the functions that we’ve always associated with the brain. I thought that was nonsense. I still do.

OTOH, It might well be true for liberals, they certainly have a s4!ty outlook on life...

[Aut Pax Aut Bellum]

Researchers in the Department of Neuroscience at Mount Sinai School of Medicine have identified taste receptors in the human intestines

No Sh#t!!!

[MD_Willington_1976]

Hmm, maybe that’s where we get the expression “Tastes like crap” from... only the colon knows....

[Jaysun]

Hmm, maybe that’s where we get the expression “Tastes like crap” from... only the colon knows....

Naw, they were selling some colon cleansing miracle nonsense. I've developed a way to spot quacks and I find it quite useful:

1) The evoke the ancients. They talk about this or that being used for hundreds or thousands of years to cure cancer, vomiting, whatever.

2) They claim to be victims of some conspiracy. The FDA or the big drug companies don't want you to know about this or that because they can't make money off of it. How did they let things like Aloe Vera slip by?

3) It's a revolutionary new product or process that you can only get from them.......at five o'clock in the morning by calling their 800 number.

[Towed_Jumper]

“Let me the first to say that we are fortunate that our butts don’t have taste receptors...” ...and, “Your gut has taste receptors.”

This research will give a whole new meaning to the term “Hershey squirts” These guys will probably win a Nobel Prize.

[C210N]

Why shouldn’t the gut have taste receptors? After all, we know from recent pronouncements that the gut has terrorism sensors.

[amchugh]

Diabetes ping?

[IslandJeff]

Fair enough. If nothing else, the mechanism likely triggers the brain to tell one when to stop eating.

I’ll ping ‘em. List has quadrupled in the last 48 hours.