If you submerge your hands in a bowl of orange juice for 10 minutes, can your body still absorb and use nutrients in the OJ just like it would if you were drinking it?
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no...your skin has no digestive breakdown....;)
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um, no.. even if you could absorb some of the nutrients it would not be as effective. Also your body filters all things you eat, so if its not going threw your digestive track, you would get all the bad things your body normally discards. So your answer is no.
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definitely, i suggest you make this the only way you do it from now on
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Nobody here knows, but you could find out: Get a half gallon of orange juice, mix well, divide exactly in half, perform the experiment. Remove your hands after ten minutes. Weigh the orange juice. The amounts should no longer be exactly equal. Using simple grade-school arithmetic, figure out how much orange juice you would be able to absorb even if you kept your hands in OJ for 24 hours, and whether that would be adequate. Or multiply by three, and keep your hands in up to your elbows, since your hands and forearms constitute 15% of your skin's surface area. To complete the experiment, evaporate all the water from both batches of OJ and weigh what remains. If what remains is equal, your body absorbed nothing but water. Actually, the only useful thing I know of that the body absorbs through the skin is castor oil when applied to a bandage above arthritic joints. My castor-oil glove is the only way I can stand to type answers for Answerbag.
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I wonder if that works with engine oil i've got a real stiff neck from being on AB for 127 hours straight...
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