Stuff You Should Know - How Enemas Work

Episode Date: August 18, 2022

If you think about it, enemas are kind of gross. And if you don’t now you definitely will by the end of this wild ride of an episode. All who make it through the whole way earn SYSK bragging rights. We now wonder why we ever chose to record it.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Yeah, everybody about my new podcast and make sure to listen So we'll never ever have to say bye. Bye. Bye. Listen to frosted tips with Lance Bass on the I heart radio app Apple podcast or wherever you listen to podcasts Welcome to stuff you should know a production of I heart radio Hey and welcome to the podcast, I'm Josh Clark. There's Charles W. Chuck Brian over there Jerry's here. So bend over and let's get started everyone trigger warning body horror Yeah, this is about enemas trigger warning. Obviously if you see the title, you're gonna know what's going on Sure, but you know, there's gonna be some gross stuff and there's also a small section that does

You may not want your kids to hear. Yeah, I Would just say if this is probably not family road trip material. Yeah, just skip to the next one Yeah, unless that next one. No, it's probably safe lately. Oh, yeah Yeah, and it's really just that one part to tell you the truth and even then it's not like we're being like, you know Lecivius or body. No, it's nothing to be ashamed of but like you just just tread carefully with kids around Everybody's like, oh, what are they talking about? I've never been more intrigued to buy a stuff You should know episode and oh, you'll know when we get there. So keep your pants on Yeah

That was terrible, but great also at the same time. That's right So we're talking enemas and yeah, they were probably about seven eight times Researching this where I was like, I'm gonna faint really. Yeah, and I'm really surprised that I've actually gotten High colonics before like I've done this stuff. I think I remember that and you were into this, right? Yes, I actually yeah, that's a good way to put it. I was into it for a while And because there were times where I would get one and be like I've never felt more positive and energetic than I've ever felt in my life And then other times I would get them and I would feel like gray and couldn't look anybody in the eye afterward

Like it's a really strange how it can affect you But you know when it does make you feel good, you can understand why people do it. The thing is as we'll see The reason that I was doing high colonics and why most people do high colonics Especially outside of a formal medical setting. Mm-hmm. It's just basically bunk That's true. I remember now you talked about this in our live dr. Kellogg episode Yeah, because I remember you when you said you felt gray. That's how he described it on stage There's no other way to put it. It always got a laugh Yeah, yeah, that's true. That's also got a laugh. It's one of those true jokes. No for sure

So I'll talk a little pepper this episode with with my memories of that. How about that? Great, but instead I've never done it You've never had an anima even no no nothing like that. Okay. All right exit only so far I got you and so I'm not rolling anything out But that's the thing so like Ed helped us with this one and he specifically spells out There's no reason for you to do this. That's true. And just let me correct myself real quick I did have my colonoscopy So I'm officially not exit only. Oh

Congratulations, man. That's a good thing to do No one told me two things going into this One of which is that the people coming in there to do it walk in like wearing rubber smocks basically And when you see it, you're like, oh, sure. I Would do and the other thing no one ever told me and I think people don't tell people this maybe just because it's a fun surprise Is that all you do afterward for 30 minutes is fart? I Don't remember that I Was sitting there, but pre-op they brought a guy out next to me behind the curtain and he was just

Blowing gas every 15 seconds big ones and I was dying And the guy came I was it was so funny to me I mean I'm still five years old the guy came in to wheel me in the anesthesiologist and I was like is that It him and he went that's everybody Well, and I went so all day long and he went a Cacophony of farts Wow, and I was like what a job and he just kind of laughed and he said it'll be you too And I came out and I was in that beautiful propofol haze Mm-hmm, and I told the lady I said I got to go to the bathroom right now

And she went you just have to pass honey. Mm-hmm. Just go go ahead and start doing it and sure enough. I just started Just started blowing heat Well for how long cuz I really about 30 minutes doing that I must have been like just basically out while I was doing it now. I'm embarrassed Well Emily didn't remember either, but she I was in there with her and she I think was pretty farty. So gotcha Anyway, all that to say I did have the camera You know going inside of my body

So you have been a any now not just I guess so I was looking for the right word and any sure sure so Um, well, let's just let's get to the nitty gritty here. Okay. Yeah, what's an enema? It's when you have fluid injected through your anus into the rectum Mm-hmm Sometimes depending on the amount of fluid introduced and how long you can hold it it can make its way up to the large intestine Which is five feet or one and a half meters long. So It can be a lot of fluid almost two liters from what I saw And then you try to hold it and then after a while you pass it

And you're basically pooping a bunch of water out and hopefully if you're doing this for basically a non-medical reason You're you're clearing out any remaining poop material in there Yeah, which is when you go in for a colonic they have you instead of doing a colonic or a enema They give you the stuff to drink where you do nothing but poop for you know 12 to 18 hours or whatever for a colonoscopy. Yeah, cuz they don't want they don't want anything in there either No, and because they it can they can like not make it past whatever chunks are in there or they can They can you kind of block there the data that they're getting from it block their view. Who knows but yeah

Well and the rubber smocks Right like when I had to go one more time and I actually stopped the guy Right as we were going in I said, I think I have to go one more time. Is that a problem? He went no, please do So I was like, oh, right, of course It's like you want all of it out. Yeah So let's talk about where you're actually holding this water when you get an enema. Yeah to the five people still listening You think No, I don't know I think there are some people that are I mean that listen to the poop episode if they're into that

They're into this sure for sure. So in your guts, you've got your digestive tract Which basically is your guts you get your mouth you're faring to your esophagus That's where the food goes into the stomach and from the stomach it goes into the small intestine and the small intestine is long It's really long. It's like 22 feet long all bunched up And it's longer than the large intestine But it's much narrower and that is where we suck all the nutrients out of food, right? And then once we suck all the nutrients out of food it goes ploop Into the large intestine

That's right. All right. So from this point You're at the end of the small intestine, right? Am I in the right part of the body for sure? I feel like you shrunk me down and I'm listening to you on like You got the liquid food material at this point and it's gonna pass through The iliocecal valve into the cecum and we talked about all this in the poop and the digestive episodes But it's a nice refresher and I think appendix too. Yeah, probably it's always fun to talk about it Because it's such a weird system that that like the answer is 22 feet of intestines Yeah, but it's just such a beautiful idea or such a great system. It's pretty cool

so the cecum is on the right side of the body and the lower abdomen and Then it's gonna move into this the colon which is that big larger segmented tube That goes up the right side and takes a little turn actually not a little turn a very sharp turn across the body in the upper abdomen and Is kind of curved and tucked underneath the stomach? Yeah, and then it goes down the other side and makes kind of a J at the bottom And that's where it connects with the rectum and the colon by the way is just another word for the large intestine There's different types of colon depending on what section you're talking about

But the point is as it's going through this wild ride in your large intestine Although the nutrients have been removed now the water is being removed a lot of the liquid So that you don't get dehydrated every time you poop and that makes your poop not dry But less moist than it would have been when it entered the large intestine the point is this when it gets So your rectum and goes out of your anus what you're doing is pooping and the whole point behind enema as it stands And they've been around for a really long time is the idea that maybe there's something stuck in there And if there's something stuck in there and it's gross we should probably try to get rid of it And we'll probably be healthier as a result

Yeah, and I think even beyond stuck I think some people like the idea of just cleaning the pipes out really really well, right? You know what I'm saying sure. I know you're saying like if they could get a one of those like test tube brushes a But you can't brush yeah, yeah like a pipe cleaner But you can't and so the enema has come along and and I think a lot of people still do it for that reason They just like maybe that's why you were doing it. It's like let me clean myself out. Yeah I was doing it for the idea of like toxins being removed that kind of stuff, right?

Which is it dates back to John Harvey Kellogg, but even further as we'll see but yeah I think some people do just want to be cleaner and I saw that there's a shower extension or attachment that is Chrome and you can basically just give yourself an enema every day in the shower Whether you should do that or not is highly debatable and if you ask a doctor, they'll say no Don't even do it once but some do anyway Interesting. All right. So if you want to go back through history You it's one of the earliest sort of medical procedures that you could get

It is an ancient ancient medical texts. We always talk about Pliny and Herodotus they both wrote about enemas the Egyptians were using enemas There was apparently a bird called the ibis that they thought gave itself enemas with its beak When in fact it was just expressing oil glands near the anus with its beak But they looked at this bird and said I guess well, hey, if it's doing it then maybe we should do But a lot of times with the Egyptians it was sort of a post She's almost said postpartum post Involvement die post posthumous. Yeah. Oh geez posthumous

Posthumous I was gonna cut all that out, but I should just own it, right? It's up to you No, I'm gonna own it. Okay. I was I could not think of the word posthumous. It was something they did after you died Yeah, they would put a bunch of cedar oil up your poop chute and let you let your innards Just basically dissolve that way, but they were also using it while they were alive not using cedar oil Obviously because that would have been horrible, but using other stuff like typically water sometimes oils To basically clean themselves out again, that's long been and still is the basic idea of an enema for thousands of years That's right. So as far as equipment goes, uh, you know over the years, it's definitely Things have come and gone and what was available to them

Um, syringes have been around a lot longer than I thought actually before I researched this stuff But depending on where you were and how much money you had you might not have access to something like a medical syringe But one thing they would use is in certain parts of the world where bamboo tubes And you would you know stick this up someone's butt And you would be very careful not to inhale with your mouth on the tube and you would blow Blow in and you would force liquid in through there And this was something that they used I think bellows came along Because people actually would occasionally inhale and that would lead to very poor results, right?

Yeah, because a lot of times you were getting enemas for things like cholera And if you accidentally like coughed and inhaled while you're what you're supposed to be blowing You could inhale cholera infested stool and you were in big big trouble Uh, or even if it wasn't cholera infested. It's just a very poor day It really is and they were like, yeah, and like this is a it's a really basic idea But over, you know the centuries people added things to it. Like you said the syringe when it started to become more widespread There was a a dutch physician named Regnier de Graaf Who in the 1600s realized that a lot of people could probably benefit from you know an enema

But they were too modest or embarrassed or something like that. So he really started to try to figure out how to make Enema self-administered also to free the poor person who had to blow The the water through the bamboo tube as well It was way better if you could just do it yourself without that kind of thing sure You know things like water bottles are that used these days in certain applications back then they would use like animal bladders And things like that because they again, like you said, they they tried to make it early on I think even way back then they were they said this is probably something we should try and get people to do themselves

No matter what tools they're using Like we got to think of something to get everyone else out of the room so just like everything else um, there was an age of the enema and this actually happened during the um Uh, the court of louis the 14th who I believe reigned during the 18th century, correct? Yeah, I mean, I think it was Yeah, like early 1630s to early 1700s. Okay. All right crap. So I was half right So during this time like it was it was just Just as fashionable as it could be to get enemas self-administered or otherwise and being the king louis the 14th

It was like, um, I don't have to administer these myself I'll have somebody administer them to me and also being the king. I will just I'll take visitors during these sessions as well Yes, and he loved these things reports say that he had over 2000 enemas during his reign And uh, why this hasn't been like at least a movie scene at some point I have no idea where he's just kind of holding court or taking a meeting while he's getting an enema, but um, you know high society peresians

They would show off their uh, they were called clister Uh syringes and they had several different ones somewhere like mother of pearl and very fancy and they would they would You know say, oh look at mine. I have several different, you know enema syringes And it was just a thing people did a lot Yes, until the around the 18th 19th century when they started figuring out that that they could make laxatives in pill form And it was way easier And they started prescribing those instead

Um, and it fell out of favor until john harvey kelog came along and for much much greater detail on his experience with enemas you could go listen to our live kelog brothers episode But uh, he he brought it back with a bang and since then his ideas that you're cleaning out toxins that otherwise Will cause disease in you is still just the premise of enemas outside of the medical setting That's right. Uh another couple of things that I know I know one of what we mentioned and I couldn't remember But I guess it was the drowning episode Was they used to in england perform tobacco smoke enemas? To revive people after drowning right or if you lose consciousness and I knew that sounded familiar

And then when it hit on the drowning part that had to have been the episode Yeah, but they would blow tobacco smoke up your butt. Yeah With a rubber hose and that will wake you right up. I guess Yeah, well, actually, I think they found that it didn't actually work very much Oh, okay, so you want to take a break and come back and talk more about enemas Hey, let's Hey friends when you're staying at an airbnb You might be like me wondering could my place be an airbnb and if it could what could it earn?

So I was pretty surprised to hear about lisa in manitoba who got the idea to airbnb the backyard guesthouse of her childhood home Now the extra income helps pay her mortgage So, yeah, you might not realize it, but you might have an airbnb too Find out what your place could be earning at airbnb.ca Slash host Hey, I'm lance bass host of the new i hard podcast frosted tips with lance bass The hardest thing can be knowing who to turn to when questions arise or times get tough or you're at the end of the road Uh, okay. I see what you're doing. Do you ever think to yourself?

What advice would lance bass and my favorite boy bands give me in this situation? If you do you've come to the right place because I'm here to help this. I promise you. Oh god Seriously, I swear and you won't have to send an sos because I'll be there for you Oh, man, and so my husband Michael. Um, hey, that's me. Yep We know that Michael and a different hot sexy teen crush boy bander each week to guide you through life step by step Oh, not another one Kids relationships life in general can get messy. You may be thinking this is the story of my life Oh, just stop now. If so, tell everybody you everybody

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Stuxnet Stuxnet, I don't know. You know it's stuxnet. Is that in this? Stuxnet. Stuxnet. It's a great name. That's the name of it. It's a great name. All right. Stuxnet with an x. All right, so let's talk like the actual medical anima right and how it actually works okay, uh The first thing you want to figure out is how much liquid to put in Right, um, and it varies there can be Situations where they're basically kind of flushing you in and out where there are gallons of liquid that are used

Yeah, uh, sometimes you might get a CT scan to actually determine a real volume to use like how much space do you have to hold this, uh, liquid? and uh Usually though it's about a liter or so roughly Yeah, um, I saw that the volume of the average colon large intestine is about one and a half liters to maybe three I think all right. So you're on the side of down But if you think about it, if you're using a liter or say two liters, you're filling up your entire large intestine with water

Yeah, lucky for you. There's that, um illio seco valve Um that prevents backflow from going from the large intestine back into the small intestine Um, but that's actually like a big a big risk with Self-administered or non medical enemas or colonics is there's a concern that that could actually Breach that and you would be in big trouble because you'd be infecting yourself with stuff that you shouldn't be infecting yourself with Yeah, I mean that's one good reason not to do it yourself. Exactly. So you're gonna probably be on your side There's a doctor a nurse who's going to be you know administering it and um, it's exactly what you think They put a tube up your butt. They put the water or whatever it is into your

uh anus which goes up to your rectum and then possibly into your um large intestine and while you're while you're sitting there you are Overcome by the urge to poop and it's not just that you're full or distended um, it's that the the liquid Actually can trigger the mucosa lining them the rectum to to poop It's basically like there's two ways. It's making you want to poop and brother. Do you want to poop? Right, so one is your full and the other is that mucosa is to start spasming because it's triggered, right? And that's why I use apparently why they use soapy water

Um, or not always, but there is such a thing as a soapy water enema And that soap is is a lubricant which helps obviously for obvious reasons, but it also can be extra irritating to the colon and Guess make you want to poop even more But I'm sure there's people out there who presume that soapy soap water enemas are used to clean you out extra good Yeah, which is not the case, right? No, it's not. It's just for making you your colon spasm So um while you're holding this like sometimes you have to hold it because there might be a bunch of um Like impacted poop in there or something like that that they want to kind of soften up over time

So they may make you hold it for a while and you're going to cramp because you're not used to being this full And also don't forget that your um your colon is spasming wanting to poop and you just have to hold it for as long as you can And then finally you get to poop it out and you go home and cry for a couple of days So I guess we should talk about some of the valid reasons before we get to like the Uh reasons why you probably shouldn't just do one at home yourself to clean yourself out Uh, there are plenty of valid medical reasons why you want to go to a doctor Or if you're in a hospital or something to get an enema One is if you have

And we're not talking about just your garden variety constipation that happens to people We're talking about constipation that has not responded to any other treatments Right, um or possibly if it gets so bad something called fecal impactation Can happen which is just really long term. I mean, it's what you think It's really long term constipation where your feces are just so hard and compact And dehydrated that it's probably not even possible to get them out other than with an enema, right? Um And that's where you just sit there and hold it in for a while and just kind of let it loosen up probably with like some warm water

That's just breaking it up. Maybe saline water too Um you also pop rocks Right You also want might want to do it like you said for you if you're going to go get a colonoscopy They might have given you an enema back in the day Um, although I wonder how long they've been doing colonoscopies at some point enemas and colonoscopies cross paths But now since they figured out they can give you like that that magic drink that just makes you poop poop poop They don't really need to do enemas any longer, but I think that was a that was a point at some time

They met in a bar one night. Yeah said we seem to have a lot in common. Yeah Uh, I've got a camera joke. I really wanted to that was great chuck. There it is. All right. Thank you very nice Um, here's another reason uh before Having a baby uh a lot of times uh when when someone has a baby they can they can poop And for a long time they said well, that's not a good idea because there could be bacteria in the feces This is called cause infections. So you get an enema before you have a baby Uh, but since the early 1980s that has uh kind of gone the way of the dodo because it was a paper Meta study in 1981

That found that it did not reduce uh infection and it basically just added another stressful procedure To you know pre birth that they didn't want people to go through. Yeah That yeah, you just why make it even even more stressful. You know exactly Um, also if there's something wrong with your colon, they might give you an enema of barium sulfate Which um shows up as opaque on x-ray. So if you have a A colon full of barium sulfate when they x-ray you they're going to be able to see every nook and cranny of your colon It really helps quite a bit and you just get to poop out some barium. It's the bonus of that one Uh, this one is something I never considered but it makes a lot of sense

Uh, if you have to have a certain kind of medication Uh, like for your colon Getting it there that way may be a really good idea because if you think about it If you take it like maybe if it's ulcerative colitis or something Uh, and you take something orally like a steroid you're going to maybe metabolize a lot of that on the way down And your body is also going to have uh probably more of a risk of side effects because It is being uh metabolized in your whole body Whereas if you just go right to the spot and get that steroid in there, it's sort of a one-stop shop

Yeah, and also if the steroids just meant for the treatment of ulcerative colitis say You don't want to like move steroids across your entire body, which will happen if you get it through IV or orally This is like it's just super laser focused medication, which is great That's right And also if it's the same it's the same thing with suppositories too Sometimes they'll use a suppository if you can't keep something down Or if they're trying to target that area because there's so many Blood vessels in your anus and rectum. I think particularly in your anus that um,

They'll just take that medicine and shoot it right through that area Uh, and this is where ed the grabster points out. He helped us put this one together is uh, He said you'll notice that none of the medical reasons were, you know, just to clean yourself out Uh, that that is something that has you know, uh Come on. I was about to say more recently, but Kellogg was doing it Obviously a long time ago and so were the Egyptians. So never mind. There's also there was one other um reason for it that I thought was pretty cool if you end up like, uh Needing our desert survival episode one day and you're overheated

Oh, right and you show up at the hospital. They might give you a cool water enema And that will help reduce your core body temperature real quick inside out method. It's pretty cool. I'll bet that is awful But I'll bet it's I'll bet afterward. You're like that was amazing. I can't believe that worked, but it did Yeah, maybe so. All right. Chuck. How about our second break? We're we're making it man. I haven't felt faint once yet I haven't either. Okay. Good. Um, so we're gonna take a break and uh, come back and finish up animals Hey friends, when you're staying at an air bnb, you might be like me wondering could my place be an air bnb? And if it could what could it earn? So I was pretty surprised to hear about Lisa in manitoba who got the idea to air bnb the backyard guest house over childhood home

Now the extra income helps pay her mortgage. So, yeah, you might not realize it But you might have an air bnb too find out what your place could be earning at air bnb.ca Slash host hey, I'm lance bass host of the new iHeart podcast frosted tips with lance bass The hardest thing can be knowing who to turn to when questions arise or times get tough or you're at the end of the road Ah, okay. I see what you're doing. Do you ever think to yourself? What advice would lance bass and my favorite boy bands give me in this situation? If you do you've come to the right place because I'm here to help this. I promise you. Oh god Seriously, I swear and you won't have to send an sos because I'll be there for you

Oh, man, and so my husband Michael. Um, hey, that's me Yep, we know that michael and a different hot sexy teen crush boy bander each week to guide you through life Step by step not another one kids relationships life in general can get messy You may be thinking this is the story of my life. Just stop now. If so, tell everybody Yeah, everybody about my new podcast and make sure to listen So we'll never ever have to say bye. Bye. Bye. Bye Listen to frosted tips with lance bass on the iHeart radio app apple podcast or wherever you listen to podcasts I'm mangesha tequila and to be honest, I don't believe in astrology

But from the moment I was born it's been a part of my life in india It's like smoking you might not smoke But you're gonna get secondhand astrology and lately I've been wondering if the universe has been trying to tell me to stop running and pay attention Because maybe there is magic in the stars if you're willing to look for it So I rounded up some friends and we dove in and let me tell you It got weird fast Tantric curses, Major League Baseball teams, cancelled marriages, K-pop

But just when I thought I had to handle on this sweet and curious show about astrology My whole world can crash down The situation doesn't look good. There is risk to father And my whole view on astrology It changed Whether you're a skeptic or a believer, I think your ideas are going to change too Listen to skyline drive and the iHeart radio app, apple podcast or wherever you get your podcasts Stuxnet, who's Stuxnet?

Stuxnet, I don't know You know it's Stuxnet, is that in this? Stuxnet, it's a great name That's the name of it It's a great name Stuxnet with an X Alright, so it's been a pretty wild ride so far We described the process medically speaking

Some of the liquids that you can use medically speaking Regular old tap water Soapy water, which we talked about Sometimes it will be saline water Saltwater enemas different concentrations of salt Depending on what you want to do whether or not you want to draw water into the intestines or draw water out You're going to use different concentration levels of salt makes sense What else? We mentioned barium sulfite, but also oil, right?

Yeah, I think if you're if you've got the your poop is just not coming out You they might give you some sort of oil to really kind of break it up a little more I wonder what kind of oil I would guess mineral oil probably 10 to be 30 That would be my guess Okay, sure that makes sense. I think so too. So you talked about How there's reasons that some people would want to be clean

Um And there are times where you might want to be clean There are sexual activities that you might want to be clear for and one of them is anal sex, right? That's right. You just passed that right along to me pretty quickly, didn't you? Yeah, apparently in the porn industry It is very common practice if you have an anal sex scene on camera To get really cleaned out beforehand. Yeah, never really thought about that, but apparently that's a thing I didn't either. I also saw um that it's fairly common at least according to vice magazine

Among bottoms in the gay community Um that they will they'll basically give themselves enemas before sex and in this article The the whole premise of it was like Essentially that this doctor was saying like you don't need to do that first of all like Most of like any remnant poop that's in there like here's the other thing This is why you shouldn't do this in the first place no matter what the reason outside of a medical setting You don't need to because most people whose like Works are functioning properly are expelling

Almost all of the poop that ever goes through their body. There's so little left over Um that this is really unnecessary and then also it's um with with anal sex In particular, you're rarely reaching the rectum. It's almost all anus And there's not really any leftover poop in the anus. It would be in the rectum Yeah, plus if you get that uh bidet Right, it's crossing over with all kinds of episodes. You're clean up there. Anyway, exactly. You're yes for sure Uh and along these same lines the sexual pleasure is another reason somebody might Uh want to do this like and we're not just talking about um anal sex. We're talking about bds and practices

Uh it is the thing in that community where some people might be into Uh like a humiliation fetish where you are first to hold in an enema as as part of control Uh or maybe a medical fetish and this happens in the bdsm community and that's another reason you might get an enema Yeah, it's not it's like a diy enema. It's not preparing for a sex act. It is in itself the sex act, right? That's right part of the sex act So I was reading about that too. Yeah, and I saw it was like humiliation like you had to ask permission to to go Finally um that that was part of it, but I also saw um it can also be treated as like a loving gift Or something like that. It just all depends on how it's approached basically

Gotcha, and that parents was the aforementioned section. Yeah And now it's over. Did we talk about anything kids can't know about? Well, it depends on how open-minded you are and how old your kids are. I think I was teasing. I know uh, so I talked a little bit about it being a fad, but then I walked it back But it is a fad and it has been for a while now. Um the notion like we've kind of harped on that Um, you know, it's not super expensive It's you can usually get like an enema kit for not a whole lot of money Like it doesn't take a lot of high-priced equipment and it's something that you can do in the privacy of your own home

and I think along with like Fasting and juice cleanses it's it's sort of in that same category as As this stuff where you're where you at least you're intending to clean toxins out of your body And plus also it has a real goop vibe too, you know And Gwyneth Paltrow's goop not just Well well said. Yes. Yeah. Yes. So um, again, yes, if you're if you're doing this and you're You're fine medically if you don't have digestive issues Then there's no reason for you to do this. It's superfluous and it can also be potentially dangerous

That's the point. I don't think like the doctors who are saying like don't do this If you don't need any help with your digestive tract or are just trying to like, you know poo poo anyone's fun But um, what they're saying is is like there's there's actual risks with this kind of stuff that you could injure yourself And in some really horrific ways. I think this is where the fainting for me really kind of stepped up Yeah, um All right. Well, I guess we'll just start with uh Perforations

Sure, uh, if you are inserting something, uh, you know into your anus up into your rectum There is a chance that you could perforate something Uh, you could have one of those nozzles go through the wall of the rectum You could make a even the tiniest hole in the wall of your colon Because of the pressure of that fluid Um, none of this is a good thing at all. It could lead to sepsis Uh, it is uh, all of a sudden you have, um Things that aren't sterile where they shouldn't be and it's just not a good idea

Right. Um, you can you can, um, infect your parietal peritoneum which holds your abdomen or your abdominal organs in place And doesn't want any poop water in there at all. It'd be a bad jam You can also even just do more minor damage too where you just kind of scrape it or dent it or something like that And it's not going to feel very good And the reason why you're at risk of perforating or denting or scraping your rectum Is because it's not like a straight shot from your anus up to your rectum up to your, um, your large intestine It's your anus goes one way and then all of a sudden it starts to double back and that's your rectum So you really have to have some finesse here and if you go too far you can really be in some big trouble

Yeah, absolutely. Um, we talked about drawing water out that could obviously lead to some pretty severe Dehydration if you lose a significant amount of water um sodium phosphate If you use an enema that contains sodium phosphate that can really lead to severe Dehydration and we're talking like you know where your kidneys and your heart could be damaged Yeah, because I mean we're talking electrolytes here So the electrical conductivity of your heart depends on that kind of stuff

So yes, if you have a heart condition you should probably not be doing enemas Especially saline enemas for sure But also even if it's not saline if you introduce too much water into your body you can suffer from water toxicity Which is basically like the opposite of an that kind of imbalance of too much salt You have too little salt and that can cause problems too Yeah, and aside from heart conditions and high blood pressure, which they don't recommend you get self-administer enemas in those cases if you have any kind of complications with your coals, uh, your colon Uh, any kind of underlying condition there. You don't want to be giving yourself an enema just to clean yourself out. Okay. Got it

You got anything else? I got nothing else. I feel like this is a pretty short one. We sped through this one somehow Well, I was gonna say we have a few minutes. I could share my experience with it Yeah, because we didn't really touch on any of it. So if you go and get a um, a colonic Um, or colon hydrotherapy is what it's often called at like a med spa. They often have them They're not going to like administer an enema to you. They actually have a machine That allows you to self-administer a continuous enema that they basically leave on for about 30 minutes and it's a really kind of weird ingenious contraption, but essentially it's like a

The the kind of table that you would um Give birth on so your legs are kind of spread apart. Okay, but then in the middle of the table is a hole with a tube coming up from it And that tube is what you have to like lower yourself onto That's where you put the umbrella the sun umbrella. That's right And then around the tube is where everything comes back out, right? So Um in front of you is like a little shower nozzle and it's invariably um the cheap Home depot 10 dollar like fake cut crystal plastic shower nozzle, you know I'm talking about

Oh, sure So you turn it on and it and you're in control so you control how much is going in at any point in time because you can feel it immediately start to fill up in your in your colon and your guts and You'll probably try to hold it as long as you can and you might think that that's going to be a minute or 10 minutes If you're really optimistic, but it ends up being like eight to 10 seconds Oh really most you could possibly hold it for me at least it was

And then when it comes back out it goes through that tube or through that hole around the tube Through a plastic tube That goes to the that takes it out as waste it drains away And like I said, this contraption is really ingenious. They set a mirror up so you can see it coming Through the tube so you can see what's coming out of you And it's really something they leave you in there for about half an hour and like I said You can either walk away feeling like wow, I really feel like a million bucks Which I still to this day don't understand

But it was not placebo effect because I'd had it before and that hadn't happened This wasn't like the first time like it was I don't understand what the mechanism could have been Um, and then other times you can feel like really Just just violated is the only way to put it like you violated yourself somehow So it's either walking on sunshine or a smith song pretty much Wow, so is there a human in there with you? That's what I didn't gather the human

Explains it to you and then leaves and then Runs and you see a little dust cloud basically Yeah, the only time that the human will come back in While you're doing this is when you haven't inserted the tube far enough into your anus Because water starts spraying out And they'll they'll you'll basically be like I think something's wrong and they'll come in really like here You don't have this far enough up and you're like no, I really do. I really do and they're like you don't you have to put it further up And you have to put it further up and then once you get it up there correctly

The water stops spraying out and you can get down to business One thing I didn't look up was the coffee enema. Do you know what the deal is with that? Is that just a variation of the liquid? I yeah as far as I know I don't understand what it's used for but I know that like because there's so many blood vessels there You would be pretty hyped up on caffeine if you use like fully caffeinated coffee. Oh, well, that's probably the purpose, right? Well, yes, and then we should also say tangential of that People have used alcohol in enemas before and that is Potentially deadly. Yeah, actually probably deadly depending on what kind of alcohol you put in there and how often you do it

Um, because you're just absorbing alcohol way faster than you would if you would drink it So your blood alcohol volume can get really high really fast and you can give yourself alcohol poisoning So under no circumstances do that Oh my lord. Yeah, what is wrong with people? I don't know I have nothing else. I'm just I'm in a fugue state. Okay. All right. I don't have anything else either Um, well, that's it for enemas everybody chucks in a fugue state, which means of course it's time for listener mail Uh, we got a couple of replies and this is um in lieu of you Your assertion that there would be no cocaine

In small town, michigan in the 19 in 1975 one person really schooled me Yeah, I don't think this was it. Okay Uh, this is from a west virginian. No, this is the guy. Oh really? Yeah, not in a hostile manner. I'm saying what you took me to school I got you Um, I thought you meant in a you know get in there and take your enema like a big boy way, right? I have to ask permission to let go Greetings from a long time listener in west virginia. I'm writing in regards to death from astral projection Uh, where the autopsy report determined that robert's death was due to a cocaine overdose

Uh, josh expressed skepticism about cocaine being in an arbor in 75 because of the high roller image I can't speak to that directly if you know what I mean But I can tell you that cocaine was absolutely in morgenton Is it morgenton or morgentown morgentown? It just sounds like it'd be one of those places. It says no, it's morgenton. Well, I said it was morgentown So that means of course it's morgenton Uh, and we sure have never been the epicenter of financial markets or a hangout of the rich and famous But I was a college sophomore then and was in more than one room where it happened

A lot of the illegal drugs that make it to morgenton morgenton town Come from detroit and to this day drug arrests here often involve people from there if cocaine made it to Uh, the m-town home of west virginia university in 1975. I think it's pretty much a certainty That also made it to an arbor. Okay I love the podcast. Of course, this is anecdotal still I love the podcast I'm happy to chance to write in and shed a little more light on an interesting mystery

Should you read this on the podcast? Please don't use my name If my 93 year old mom got wind of this she'd still ground me So that is from uh, Jeffrey Charles. That's awesome. That's uh, anonymous. That's great. Thanks anonymous. That was a fantastic email I I really feel like yes, it is anecdotal, but They make just about as good a point as you possibly could so I rescind it I still don't understand why this this yogi would have suddenly gotten into cocaine I agree with that when everybody in his life says no including friends not just his mom His friends too, but but I mean this guy makes a pretty good point. It's possible

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