On a recent Google tangent, I came across one of the odder glandular pastimes — a little something called prostate milking. What began as a medical method of expunging excess fluid and seminal from inflamed prostates has become a newfound way for gentlemen to, um, well, you know, feel good. Really good, apparently. Some say it’s dangerous if not done correctly, and, as you might imagine for something that’s equivalent to your doctor getting you off, alternative treatments, such as laser therapy, may come to replace the practice entirely — in a medical setting at least.
Archive for October, 2009
Milking It
Posted: Friday, October 30th, 2009See More Guts
Posted: Friday, October 30th, 2009
This little guy looks none too happy about having his guts exposed to the world, but he’s still very handsome and way cooler than the Invisible Man. This fabulous clay figurine is entitled Anatomical Mook and was made by ilovegreyskies on Etsy. As long as we’re talking about Etsy, have you Regretsy‘d yet today? {Thanks, Pollyanna!}
Trick or Thyroid
Posted: Thursday, October 29th, 2009
I don’t know if you’ve ever read the blog Dear Thyroid, but if you haven’t, you’re in for a treat. Example: “I happen to love Halloween. Because I have Graves’ Ophthalmopathy and I’m a sphere on mini-stilts (5’4), I am a walking costume. I can go to parties, if I choose to, as a pissed off Graves’ disease patient.” Hilarious. Anyway, it got us thinking about Graves — a condition related to an overactive thyroid that causes the eyes to bulge from the sockets, used for comedic advantage by the likes of Marty Feldman and Rodney Dangerfield. A UCLA study recently looked into why the condition attacks the eye sockets. Turns out the problem isn’t all the thyroid‘s fault, but trouble also lies with defective infection fighting T-cells (which mature in our good friend the thymus), which attack the eye tissue.
Sexy New Undies
Posted: Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
We are extremely excited to introduce our first pair of I Heart Guts underwear! These fancy pants feature the ovary and testicle in a chance encounter on your panties. At first we wanted to call them Reproductive Booty Shorts, for ladies looking for something special to wear while trying to conceive, but let’s be real. You might not want to tangle with the DNA of some of the gentlemen you take home with you. So we thought about The Sexuality Knickers instead, but that sounds so American Apparel. So they’re Sexy Booty Shorts. Do what you will with them, we won’t judge.
Bladder in Every Cup
Posted: Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
Ever wonder why coffee makes you pee so much more? You likely know caffeine is a diuretic, meaning, something that causes your kidneys to produce more urine. We were wondering if all this extra pee processing was tough on the ol’ bladder, however, research has shown that coffee’s diuretic effects aren’t that much stronger than, say, a glass of water. So unless you’re mainlining five cups a day, or you have bladder issues, your lovely ol’ excretory system should be able to handle your coffee needs so you can stay perky.
Pancreas Party
Posted: Monday, October 26th, 2009
We liked this visualization of what it’s like to be diabetic and have to monitor your glucose all the time, from Moments of Being Me on Flickr. This guy is pretty high tech, too, with the cool iPhone app that monitors blood sugar and insulin doses, glucose meter and insulin pen. And of course we hope that happy little pancreas helps through the blood sugar highs and lows.
Brain Balloon
Posted: Monday, October 26th, 2009
Fly the neural skies with this awesome brain balloon, created by the International Brain Foundation to bring attention to our wonderful brains and some of the diseases and disorders that cause problems with it. From the website’s schedule, it looks like this giant brain won’t be floating by you anytime soon, but we still heart it anyway, maybe because our heads are already in the clouds.
Sneak Preview
Posted: Friday, October 23rd, 2009
I’ve been taxing my poor printer by forcing it to churn out our little What Do Guts Do? poster, so I’m excited to tell you (and my LaserJet 2605dn) that we’re printing it professionally so it’ll be bigger and better! We’re expecting these giant 18 x 24 posters any day now and were pleased to get a sneak preview from the Jakprints blog. Apparently the poster made the folks over there newly appreciate the pancreas and all it does to regulate your sugar levels. My friend’s six year old helped me go over the artwork, and he understood most of it (he is not only very bright, but has been looking at our guts ever since he was a baby), i.e. why the kidneys are in the bathtub, why the bladder is watering the plants, why the spleen is beating up germs, why the lung is playing the trumpet, etc. Only when he got home, he gave us a call and wanted to know why the uterus was riding a bicycle. We expect these any day now, so check back soon!
In Da Club
Posted: Friday, October 23rd, 2009
Why bother letting someone pee in the woods when you could make a product for it instead? Enter the Uro-Club, a portable urinal disguised as a golf club that was developed by a urologist who, we guess, likes to play golf and pee privately. We saw this unusual item on the Shark Tank season finale, where the guy was looking for some capital to get the pee iron off the ground, so to speak. Golf courses are not short on shrubs or trees — why is this thing necessary? Ask yourself, as a man, what’s more awkward — sneaking off to a nearby shrub, or whipping out a plastic tube and putting your junk in it in front of all your buddies? Just tell ‘em: “No, no, I’m just golfing under this towel.” But peeing on the green doesn’t get publicity, or make a great golfer gag gift, so maybe this will help this Florida urologist retire early. When the portable toilet disguised as a golf bag is coming out, my friend Simon wants to know? That’s gotta be next.
$9.99 Liver and Lungs!
Posted: Friday, October 16th, 2009
Urban Outfitters likes to move the merch really fast, and now it’s time for you all to benefit — prices half been slashed in half on the plush lungs and plush livers on the Urban Outfitters website. So buy now from their website and save — just $9.99 apiece! Enjoy the fruits of UO’s fickle-ness and get cheap livers here and cheap lungs here — take one home today! Wow! OMG! Awesome! Help the liver and lungs escape from Urban Outfitters and take one home for super-duper almost-nothing prices (they just ordered more hearts, so they don’t totally hate our guts, just our lungs and livers.)
