Breathing With Your Hips Successful Human Experiment...Lung Disease Patients' New Hope
Oct 23, 2025
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According to foreign media such as the New York Post, joint researchers from the United States and Japan have successfully completed human experiments with the technology 'enteral ventilation' that supplies oxygen through the rectum (直腸).
This breathing method applies the natural principle of absorbing oxygen through the anus when some animals, such as fish, turtles, and pigs, lack oxygen, and won the Ig Nobel Prize last year to scientists who show off their wrong techniques.
After receiving positive results from early animal experiments, the researchers conducted the first human experiment on 27 healthy men in Japan.
Participants participated in an experiment in which oxygen-free 'perfluorodecalin' liquid was injected into the rectum and held for 60 minutes.
Perfluorodecalin is a special liquid that can carry oxygen and is a perfluorinated carbon (PFC) compound used in the medical and cosmetic fields. Recently, it has attracted attention as an alternative means of supplying oxygen to patients with decreased lung function.
As a result of the experiment, 20 of them completed the experiment with up to 1.5 liters of liquid, and some complained of abdominal bloating and discomfort, but there were no serious side effects.
Dr. Takanori Takebe, who led the study, said "This experiment is to verify safety and durability, and the effectiveness has not yet been evaluated", he explained. He added "The next step is to use a liquid containing oxygen to see if the actual blood oxygen level rises."
If further studies confirm the effectiveness of this respiration method, it is expected to be of great help to patients whose airways are blocked by injury or inflammation or whose lung function is severely limited by infectious diseases.
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This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
