Rectal oxygen delivery might soon be a real medical treatment
33 comments
·October 21, 2025themafia
> The team recruited 27 healthy adult men in Japan, each of whom received a dose of non-oxygenated perfluorodecalin via the anus. They were asked to retain the liquid for a full hour as the dosage slowly increased from 25 to 1,500 mL. Twenty of the men successfully completed the experiment.
7 of them went home and never spoke of it again.
weird-eye-issue
That's a lot of liquid to retain, it would feel very weird
highfrequencyy
How did they advertise this experiment?
flowerthoughts
Please, quiet down. Thank you all, for accepting my personal invitation and coming tonight.
As you can see, there is only a carrot in front of you, but that is not to say that this dinner will be uneventfull or unfulfilling. On the contrary, I believe. In fact, I hope you will accept my humble request that we let our mouths be free for candid conversation, and the colon for breathing. It will be an evening like none you have ever seen, I assure you, my dear medical students.
qgin
[flagged]
brk
They were simultaneously filming for a TV game show.
0cf8612b2e1e
Only half knew it was a game show. The others did not want to rock the boat.
weird-eye-issue
Because the researchers are Japanese? Sorry but what kind of question is this?
fishmicrowaver
[flagged]
null
Electricniko
Excuse me, I just gotta go unblock my airway.
Aspos
So "blowing smoke up one's arse" isn't a completely baseless resuscitation technique after all.
NoPicklez
Haha I said the same
philsnow
> it did provide a handy plot point for the 1989 film The Abyss, in which a rat is able to “breathe” in a similar liquid
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.)
craigmcnamara
This is like the intro to the Squdbillies episode where Dan Halen makes the octowing chicken, but instead of that is ass lungs.
Welcome to the future, we have ass lungs now.
grim_io
To think I've been doing breathing wrong all these years...
AtlasBarfed
Here comes the next anally focused franchise opportunity for Southern California
sentrysapper
>Yes, they gave the animals enemas.
I am relieved for them.
NoPicklez
So blowing smoke up someone's xxxx is actually beneficial
outoftheb0x
that means we can now smoke two cigarettes at once?
diogenescynic
"Are you a nose or mouth breather?"
"...I'm a butt breather."
Fix sleep apnea with this one weird trick!
Why are new CPAP machines so uncomfortable?
eth0up
I think we can now finally spell it as we've always been tempted to. Continuous R.. A.. P
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45659883.