For all your gastrointestinal freaks out there, take a peek at our new and improved plush intestines! If you’ve ever want a large intestine, this is the one for you, comes with a booklet hangtag filled with silly drawings and all the intestine trivia one could ever digest in one sitting, take a sneak peek below. They’re squishier, cuddlier and more adorable than ever and coming really soon, so stay tuned. And don’t neglect the original lifesize gut, we still have a few left here.
Posts Tagged ‘colitis’
Our Gut is Growing
Posted: Tuesday, June 28th, 2011Your Heroic Appendix
Posted: Thursday, December 10th, 2009
Your guts bugging you? Turns out that’s a good thing. Until recently, the appendix has had a reputation as a shiftless organ with no known modern function, but evolutionary biologists now have a different idea — that it functions as a storage unit for good bacteria. They argue the good bacteria hangs out in the appendix until needed to replace ones flushed out by diarrhea or other nasty gut-bug killers. When the gut gets flushed out, the appendix — which is lined with immune system tissue — releases the good bugs back into the intestine. Today’s improved sanitary conditions leave our immune systems twiddling their thumbs to some extent, so the appendix is not needed as often as in the days when our ancestors were, say, eating raw meat and drinking water from streams. Without enough immunity battles to fight, and perhaps too much exposure to anti-microbial hand washes, the body begins picking battles with allergies and autoimmune disorders. Hence all the recent studies that say eating dirt is good for kids.
Gut Lovin’ Bugs
Posted: Monday, November 16th, 2009
Is your gut bugging you? Sometimes that can be a good thing, especially when it comes to the heathful bacteria that lives in your digestive system and helps you to digest food. There are about 300 – 1000 different species of guts bugs living in your large intestine, some good, some bad. Recently you may have noticed that probiotics are all the rage, sneaking into all kinds of food, from yogurt to cereal. Last weekend I came across the pictured sticker in a promotion for phd, a new probio beverage on the market, check out their gut bug blog for more info.
Chew Your Food
Posted: Thursday, October 29th, 2009
Your mom always tiold you not to swallow gum, and here’s another good reason to leave the sticky stuff out of your stomach — you can make fantastic art with it. Kevin Van Aelst has fashioned his chewed-up Bubble Yum and Trident into a wonderfully tiny digestive system, stuck it under a table, and took a photo. Take the time to check out his chromosomes fashioned from Gummi Worms and heart made from a pile of laundry. {via Boing Boing}
Tangled up in Pink
Posted: Tuesday, September 8th, 2009
I didn’t think anything could compete with these Meat socks by RockSocks.net, but these fabulous pink intestine socks by AshiDashi, a company that makes a slew of super-cute and weird socks, are seriously amazing. [via Cool Hunting]
Totally Boweled Over
Posted: Monday, April 6th, 2009
More brand-new tees in stock, including men’s and women’s intestine “I Heart Your Guts” t-shirts and our fancy new “Gall of the Wild” gall bladder shirt for men and women. Be the first on your block to wear your bowels on the outside! I have finally caved to consumer trends and have made separate colors for men and women’s tees. Apparently real men don’t wear pink.
The new gall bladder tee also means we’ve got the goods for a Gall Bladder Gift Pack. Woo hoo! And for those of you waiting for the Smells Like Spleen Spirit t-shirt, we’ve got that back in stock, this time in Kelly Green, in all sizes, finally. Thanks for being so patient!
Digestive Party
Posted: Friday, February 13th, 2009
“How can you call yourselves I Heart Guts if you don’t have the gut?” one of our observant customers once asked us. Excellent question. Well, we’re pleased to announce that the next batch of gutsy plush pals will feature several major digestive system players — from left going clockwise, bladder, spleen (not a digestive system player, but hey), intestine (note the appendix at lower left!) and stomach. I won’t lie, I am really fond of the bladder and have been dying for him to come out. I only wish he was a squirting bath toy. Another good reason to visit us at Wondercon in San Francisco at the end of the month is a chance to fondle these new guts in person before they come out in late March. 
We’re also rolling out a new limited-edition plush, the Black Heart! This sad little guy was supposed to be an anti-Valentine’s Day plushie, but between getting them tested and getting them paid for with credit as it is, this Black Heart is going to pass over Valentine’s Day altogether. Which is appropriate, I guess. All these guys are child safe, but if you give your child a black heart, you might have some problems.
Grosser Than Gross
Posted: Sunday, January 4th, 2009
Perhaps you’ve heard of a heart transplant, a lung transplant, and even a uterus transplant, but have you ever heard of not just a bowel transplant (WARNING: STOP READING NOW IF YOU’RE EASILY DISGUSTED), but a feces transplant? Yes, it’s true, people sometimes transplant poo. I learned this from What’s Your Poo Telling You?, a fun-loving and fact-filled book all about bodily excretions. Folks with really bad cases of colitis caused by poor intestinal flora can sometimes benefit from a squirt of someone else’s nicely populated bacterial colony. As the book points out, this last-resort treatment may have a bright future “owing to the short list of willing recipients and the potentially endless supply of donors.”
Fun New Stuff!
Posted: Thursday, December 4th, 2008
Check out some new gutsy goodies just for you — the Digestive System Lunchbox! There’s only two one of these left, so grab it while you can.We’ve also combined some select guts and glands to create specialty sticker packs — the Digestive System Sticker Set (yummy!) and Reproductive System Sticker Set (sexxxy!). Just in case you’ve forgotten how the digestive system works or how the reproductive system works (really, now, who could forget that?), these stickers will help you along. Sex organs are not included, you have to supply those yourself.
