Stocks passed my e-mail along to Model Gut senior scientist Richard Faulks. Faulks was dismissive not only of extreme chewing, but also of the related fad for blenderizing to increase the accessibilit...
Sometimes courage is nothing more than a willingness to think differently than those around you.
Rawson has an idea of what it is like to eat without perceiving tastes, because she has talked to cancer patients whose taste receptors have been destroyed by radiation treatments. The situation is we...
Rawson has a colleague who studies crayfish and lobsters, which taste with their antennae. I was always jealous of people who study lobsters. They examine the antennae, and then they have a lobster di...
One young woman's tribute describes unwrapping her cadaver's hands and being brought up short by the realization that the nails were painted pink. The pictures in the anatomy atlas did not show nail p...
Not that there's anything wrong with just lying around on your back. In it's way, rotting is interesting too, as we will see. It's just that there are other ways to spend your time as a cadaver.
Most of us pass our lives never once laying eyes on our organs, the most precious and amazing things we own. Until something goes wrong, we barely give them thought. This seems strange to me. How is i...
Men and women . . . do not ingest nutrients, they consume food. More than that, they . . . eat meals. Although to the single-minded biochemist or physiologist, this aspect of human behavior may appear...
I’m short, I’m thin, I’m not rich. I would say my career choice is in fourth place in limiting my effectiveness as a single adult. (It’s possible that it helped. Within a year, he would be married.)
It’s one thing to get enough evidence to convince yourself, but it’s a whole other matter to produce a demonstration that would be acceptable to a community of scientists,
It would be especially comforting to believe that I have the answer to the question, What happens when we die? Does the light just go out and that’s that—the million-year nap? Or will some part of my...
It takes a certain kind of mind to interpret smidgens of fecal matter found in underwear as an ectoplasmic calling card rather than an ordinary by-product of a minor lapse in hygiene. It takes, I woul...
If you don’t have a pair of cadaver shoes, you’re not doing enough research. In
If there were ever a cadaver eligible for sainthood, it would not be our Spalding Gray upon the cross, it would be these guys: the brain-dead, beating-heart organ donors that come and go in our hospit...
I guess I feel the same way about being a corpse. Why lie around on your back when you can do something interesting and new, something useful?
I find the dead easier to be around than the dying. They are not in pain, not afraid of death. There are no awkward silences and conversations that dance around the obvious. They aren't scary...Cadave...
Eating organs, in 1943, could degrade one’s social standing. Americans preferred bland preparations of muscle meat partly because for as long as they could recall, that’s what the upper class ate. So...
Borman much later admitted that he was, as Cernan wrote in his memoir, sick as a dog* all the way to the moon.
Aspirin and ibuprofen combat inflammation everywhere but the stomach and bowel; there they create inflammation.
Any discussion of the sexuality of the digestive tract must inevitably touch on the anus. Anal tissue is among the most densely innervated on the human body. It has to be. It requires a lot of informa...