🍑 'Butt-Breathing' Could Help People With Lung Conditions

Have you heard of 'butt-breathing'? 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jersey and Amanda jam Nation scientists a one step close
to answering a critical question. I know everyone is asking,
can you breathe through your bottom? In nature? Butt breathing,
as the Americans like to call it, isn't new. Animals
like turtles, some fish species can breathe through their bot
scientists have earned the Ignoble Prize. That's sort of. It's

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a satirical prize, but still for proper science. Research are
found that mammal botbots, like the ones from rodents and pigs,
can absorb oxygen through the rectum in emergency situations. I
don't know what that emergency situation would be, so if
it works the same way in humans as it does
in animals, the researchers suggest that terial ventilation could be

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a last resort to keep people with severe respiratory failure alive. Interesting,
isn't it? So listen to the study They did. A
clinical trial included twenty seven healthy men who volunteered to
hold between twenty five and fifteen hundred miller liters. How
much is that cup of tea? I'm guessing yeap of
not only twenty five mills twenty five Between twenty five

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and fifteen hundred milli liters. Oh my god, that's a lot.
Is it miller liters? Yeah, that's twenty five mills. So
if you look at it, that's half of this two
hundred and fifty meals is a cup, and then then
you've got a and a half that's subsequent your big
chocolate milk. It's like those drinks that the young girl's
cart around those water holders. That's a lot. So they
offered to hold that this of a certain non oxygenated

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liquid in their rectum for an hour. Directum didn't do
much good. Do you want to hear the results? Sure?
I came this far. There were noses. There were no
serious harmful effects, but people who took the highest volume
of the liquid surprisingly complained about abdominal bloating. Imagine discomfort
in some pain. Out of the twenty seven, only seven

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couldn't make it to the hour mark. They flew around
the room like a deflated balloon. The highest tolerable dose
was one thousand mill So at least we know that.
So breathing through your bottom, terrible breath, butt breath, butt breath,
you know the expression blows smoke up your ears? What? Sorry,

(02:15):
but you know the expression it means someone is I
get a lot around here smoke. Yeah. A lot of
people go, mate, you're just as good as a man,
and don't worry about that. Yeah, And they don't mean
it because they're blowing exactly well. The expression comes from
the seventeen hundreds. If they if you're unlucky enough to
fall into a river and drown, one way to try

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and resuscitate you is they grab some bellows and pump
smoke up your bottom. And that where with thinking that
new way of vaping, thinking that that would inflate your
lungs somehow. So maybe they're onto something. Maybe they are
on to watch this space. I'll show you what space
do you need to watch? Well, I think you've been
talking out of your butt, So well done you, thank you.

(03:00):
I'll take it as a compliment.