{"id":25194,"date":"2025-04-02T18:54:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T18:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=25194"},"modified":"2025-04-02T19:24:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T19:24:59","slug":"the-physiology-of-cory-bookers-25-hour-senate-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=25194","title":{"rendered":"The Physiology of Cory Booker\u2019s 25-Hour Senate Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What happens to your body when you deliver a 25-hour speech without any breaks?<\/p>\n

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For 25 hours straight, Cory Booker stood on the Senate floor delivering the longest speech in the chamber\u2019s history without stopping to eat, go to the bathroom or even sit down.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s an amazing physical feat, absolutely,\u201d said Dr. Santina Wheat, a family medicine doctor at Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital in Illinois.<\/p>\n

It also goes against all the advice she gives her patients about staying hydrated, getting plenty of rest \u2014 and, yes, using the bathroom when they need it.<\/p>\n

Mr. Booker, who started speaking Monday evening<\/a> to condemn the Trump administration and continued to talk until Tuesday night, told reporters that before he started speaking, he had not drunk water since Sunday night, so that he would not have to stop and use the bathroom. He also said that he fasted for days leading up to the speech.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cBoth the cognitive and physical aspects of his body are definitely taxed,\u201d said Dr. Joseph Herrera, chair of the department of rehabilitation and human performance for the Mount Sinai Health System. \u201cJust to keep going is mentally draining,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Dr. Wheat woke up to a chain of messages from doctor friends speculating about whether Mr. Booker was wearing an adult diaper. (Mr. Booker did not respond to a request for comment, but his communications director told an NPR reporter<\/a> that the senator was not wearing a catheter or a diaper.)<\/p>\n

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What happens to your body when you deliver a 25-hour speech without any breaks?For 25 hours straight, Cory Booker stood on the Senate floor delivering the longest speech in the chamber\u2019s history without stopping to eat, go to the bathroom or even sit down.\u201cIt\u2019s an amazing physical feat, absolutely,\u201d said Dr. Santina Wheat, a family medicine doctor at Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital in Illinois.It also goes against all the advice she gives her patients about staying hydrated, getting plenty of rest \u2014 and, yes, using the bathroom when they need it.Mr. Booker, who started speaking Monday evening to condemn the Trump administration and continued to talk until Tuesday night, told reporters that before he started speaking, he had not drunk water since Sunday night, so that he would not have to stop and use the bathroom. He also said that he fasted for days leading up to the speech.\u201cBoth the cognitive and physical aspects of his body are definitely taxed,\u201d said Dr. Joseph Herrera, chair of the department of rehabilitation and human performance for the Mount Sinai Health System. \u201cJust to keep going is mentally draining,\u201d he added.Dr. Wheat woke up to a chain of messages from doctor friends speculating about whether Mr. Booker was wearing an adult diaper. (Mr. Booker did not respond to a request for comment, but his communications director told an NPR reporter that the senator was not wearing a catheter or a diaper.)We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25196,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25194"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25197,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25194\/revisions\/25197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}