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Tripping on Xenon Gas (2023)

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Re: Tripping on Xenon Gas (2023)

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Post by bee_rider »

ladams wrote: post #4
IsTom wrote: post #3

Wouldn't it be the same as breathing any other nonreactive gas? Isn't this just symptoms of hypoxia?

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Reading the intro I was expecting g something totally impossibly expensive but

> Xenon is extremely expensive — a single 30-second dose costs between $50 and $80

I mean, it just seems like a normal rip off, not even that exclusive.

Re: Tripping on Xenon Gas (2023)

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Post by lpribis »

IsTom wrote: post #3

Wouldn't it be the same as breathing any other nonreactive gas? Isn't this just symptoms of hypoxia?

No, xenon is a NMDA antagonist meaning it has dissociative/anaesthetic effects like ketamine or nitrous oxide.

TFA talks about the effects coming on "within seconds" of inhalation, so it is clearly not just hypoxia which takes tens of seconds or minutes to manifest.

Re: Tripping on Xenon Gas (2023)

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Post by digging »

IsTom wrote: post #3

Wouldn't it be the same as breathing any other nonreactive gas? Isn't this just symptoms of hypoxia?

Clearly the symptoms aren't the same as just holding your breath, which makes me think that it is not, in fact, completely nonreactive. (But I'm a total noob to biochemistry.) Similar to Nitrous Oxide, which definitely has a powerful psychedelic effect and is not at all simply hypoxia.

Re: Tripping on Xenon Gas (2023)

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Post by schoen »

IsTom wrote: post #3

Wouldn't it be the same as breathing any other nonreactive gas? Isn't this just symptoms of hypoxia?

Yeah, how can the body tell which noble gas it's breathing? As the article mentions, the xenon is exhaled in its original form without having been metabolized or having caused any chemical changes in the body!
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