Please, people of the internet, don’t pour coffee into your butt.
To pull a “back in my day” real quick, growing up, the only reason I’d ever heard for people pouring things into their asses was to get drunk faster. Yes, “butt chugging” isn’t a great idea, but neither is crushing a pack of tall boys and going on a roller coaster, and I did the latter with vomit-filled ease in my teenage years.
In short, you’d hope people would grow up a bit and learn that there is generally no medical necessity to put any liquid into your bottom (except as a last ditch effort to fix another issue).
Unfortunately, that hasn’t stopped this group of people from gathering together to top up on coffee from the bottom — and post about it online for all the world to see.
In the description, a woman named Carly Shankman suggests that coffee enemas have a host of benefits for those who do them. “Coffee enemas focus on liver detoxification, enhancing our body’s ability to fight and flush out toxins. They increase the production of glutathione, a potent antioxidant, by 500 percent, making them an amazing and easy way to support your body’s natural detoxing capabilities,” she writes.
Plus, she says they have the added benefit of improving your mood, relieving headaches, and “increas[ing] glow and vitality of skin.”
Sounds pretty great if you can ignore the tube in your rectum!
Sadly for Shankman and the many other people online engaging in this bizarre practice, there’s no scientific evidence to suggest that coffee enemas do what she says they do — and a helluva lot of evidence that shoving a cup of Joe up your ass is a recipe for a bad time.
“The [Canadian Society of Intestinal Research] states that there are no benefits to coffee enemas. There are no quality studies to suggest otherwise, and people risk rectal burns and caffeine overdose, alongside other complications of enemas,” reads a piece in Medical News Today.
And if you were wondering if you could die from this, the answer is… maybe.
“According to the National Cancer Institute, three deaths reported in literature appear to be related to coffee enemas,” writes Annette McDermott for Healthline. “One may have occurred due to bacterial infection, although this couldn’t be confirmed. Two other deaths occurred due to electrolyte imbalance.”
To summarize, leave the coffee in the cup — and keep it away from your bum.
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