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Only back then, the steam included vaporized mercury to coax more saliva from the patient. No one realized that excessive salivation is a symptom of acute mercury poisoning.
Kids grow incisors before they have molars; for a brief span of time they can bite off pieces of food but cannot chew them.
The crunch of a chip is a tiny sonic boom inside your mouth.
“People eat physics. You eat physical properties with a little bit of taste and aroma.
A healthy adult has a new stomach lining every three days.
Penguins can shut down digestion by lowering the temperature inside their stomach to the point where the gastric juices are
no longer active. The stomach becomes a kind of cooler to carry home the fish they’ve caught for their young.
The newer smartphones contain enough metal to set off the Avenal metal detectors, so they are hooped mainly by one inmate, a man with a hip replacement. His hip gains him a pass from the metal detector.
Inner Hygiene, James Whorton’s excellent and scholarly* history of constipation,
In a more perfect world, Whitehead would be a dermatologist, just as my gastroenterologist is Dr. Terdiman, and the author of the journal article “Gastrointestinal Gas” is J. Fardy, and the headquarters of the International Academy of Proctology was Flushing, New York.
A study done five years later found potentially explosive concentrations of hydrogen or methane, or both, in six out of ten patients prepped with mannitol.
In the early days of the space program, NASA fretted about flammable astronaut flatus building up
online University of Gas.
Daily doses of Pepto-Bismol can irritate the gut, but not bismuth subgallate, the active ingredient in Devrom “internal deodorant” pills.
Aspirin and ibuprofen combat inflammation everywhere but the stomach and bowel; there they create inflammation.
cancer-fighter du jour: the polyphenol family, found in coffee, tea, fruits, and vegetables.
Changing people’s bacteria is turning out to be a more effective strategy for treatment and prevention of disease than changing their diet.
no U.S. insurance company formally recognizes the procedure.
“self-administered home fecal transplantation.”
I asked Khoruts what exactly is in the “probiotic” products seen in stores now. “Marketing,” he replied.
It’s called the FATLOSE trial. FATLOSE stands for “Fecal Administration To LOSE weight,” an example of PLEASE—Pretty Lame Excuse for an Acronym, Scientists and Experimenters.
