Human Trials Bring Us Closer to Breathing Through Our Butts

Butt Breathing Could Be a Life Saver for People With Lung Disease

Back in September 2024, I wrote about a team of Japanese researchers who were using their brilliance to answer the most pressing question of the modern age: Can we breathe through our butts? While I don’t believe there is such a thing as bad scientific research that isn’t worth investing in, this one did sound much dumber than most, so much so that it won the Ig Nobel Prize in physiology. Luckily, my personal belief that legitimate scientific re…

Breathing Through Our Butts Declared Safe After First Human Trial

The first application of enteral ventilation—aka breathing through the bum—to humans proved the technique is safe.

Scientists Say We Might Be One Step Away from Breathing Through Our Butts

It sounds like a joke but butt-breathing could be the future of emergency medicine.

Human Trials Bring Us Closer to Breathing Through Our Butts

We may be a step closer to being able to breathe through our butts.

Ig Nobel-winning ‘butt breathing’ technique may actually help people, scientists say

Technique may enable doctors to rescue patients whose airways are blocked by injury or inflammation or whose lung function is severely limited by infectious diseases

Soon, We Might Be Able To Breathe Through Our Butts

[Image: Pixabay] Based on the success of recent human clinical trials, we could be one step closer to being able to breathe through our butts. The study was undertaken by a team led by Takanori Takebe, a biomedical scientist at the University of Osaka, and proved that it is safe to deliver oxygen rectally. Sounds like a joke, but in fact, the team responsible for this research were awarded an Ig Nobel Prize for physiology last year. There is, ho…