#shit machine

First of all is eating feces harmful?  

Sooo I thought eating shit will result in infection, sepsis and death… but not really.

Eating your own shit is called autocoprophagia which isn’t that bad since you are transmitting only your own bacteria, but consuming other’s shit (allocoprophagia) might not be that good of an idea. Mostly because of possible diseases.

Gut colonizes various microbes. These may be useful, harmless or harmful. The harm may be person specific; gut region specific or time specific. Co -speciation is a dynamic process. Hence, in a given situation, whether a practice is harmful or otherwise will be decided by multiple factors.

Accidental ingestion of feces is the main route of transmission of cholera and typhoid fever, among many other diseases.

Some animals ingest feces (sometimes dogs have a desire to consume either their own or other dogs’ faeces)

Intestinal microorganisms are necessary as symbiants so that we can digest and absorb nutrients from food. By the time food gets to the exit, it is extremely dangerous to put it in our mouths again. Hence the instinctive repulsion to the sight and smell of feces. It is amazing that something so deadly as the germ cocktail found in feces exists inside our bodies in kilogram quantities.

Coprophagia has been observed in some people with schizophrenia and pica. 

People have been known to drink their own urine to survive (but urine is sterile).

But since shit is essentially a waste maybe I should research starvation too?  

What’s with head down position that Zackley has chosen?

HEAD DOWN position (ie Trendelenburg) will cause increases MAP (mean arterial pressure), PCW (pulmonary capillary wedge pressure), SVR (systemic vascular resistance). Furthermore, there was no change in oxygen delivery, CI, O2 consumption.

The data suggest that the head-down, three-fourths supine, and three-fourths prone positions have a greater chance of increasing the intracranial pressure in patients with severe head injury having prolonged comas.

Wellp it’s all about relatively short period of time, but I don’t think Zackley will be happy to unbuckle his experiments from his piece of art.

Also joints and muscles of the victim will remain for extended period of time in the same position and that scenario can take place:

Without the proper stimulation or regular movement of the muscles, irritating pain messages are able to enter the spinal cord and brain unimpeded. If this scenario is reinforced daily and continues unabated, it will create a destructive cycle of chronic pain.