Study: Smelling farts is good for your health

[QuotaMan]

http://theweek.com/speedreads/index/264585/speedreads-study-smelling-farts-is-good-for-your-health

 

 

The next time someone at your office lets out a "silent but deadly" emission, maybe you should thank them. A new study at the University of Exeter suggests that exposure to hydrogen sulfide — a.k.a. what your body produces as bacteria breaks down food, causing gas — could prevent mitochondria damage. Yep, the implication is what you're thinking: People are taking the researchto mean that smelling farts could prevent disease and even cancer.

 

The study, published in the Medicinal Chemistry Communications journal, found that hydrogen sulfide gas in rotten eggs and flatulence could be a key factor in treating diseases.

 

"Although hydrogen sulfide gas is well known as a pungent, foul-smelling gas in rotten eggs and flatulence, it is naturally produced in the body and could in fact be a healthcare hero with significant implications for future therapies for a variety of diseases," Dr. Mark Wood, a professor at the University of Exeter, said in a statement.

 

While hydrogen sulfide gas is harmful in large doses, the study suggests that "a whiff here and there has the power to reduce risks of cancer, strokes, heart attacks, arthritis, and dementia by preserving mitochondria," Time reports. Dr. Matt Whiteman, a University of Exeter professor who worked on the study, said in a statement that researchers are even replicating the natural gas in a new compound, AP39, to reap its health benefits.

 

 

[stormbird]

I'm getting really worried about you Quotaman!........

[mrjd]

just a copy and paste maybe I have an unhealthy interest in farts ??

 

A recent survey conducted by The University of Exeter has shown that exposure to hydrogen sulfide — a.k.a farts, could prevent disease and even cancer.

 

 

 

 
 

 The study, published in the Medicinal Chemistry Communications journal, found that hydrogen sulfide gas in rotten eggs and flatulence could be a key factor in treating diseases.

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    “Although hydrogen sulfide gas is well known as a pungent, foul-smelling gas in rotten eggs and flatulence, it is naturally produced in the body and could in fact be a healthcare hero with significant implications for future therapies for a variety of diseases,” Dr. Mark Wood, a professor at the University of Exeter, said in a statement.
 

 

So, next time you want to give your girlfriend a dutch oven, she should consider herself lucky that you could potentially be saving her life!

Well done internet.

 

Regards

mrjd

[Davie Duke]

Tonights plans:

5PM - eat eggs. chicken, and cabbage.

6PM - whack off to Lassie porn.

630PM - inhale fetid vapors.

700PM - wash arse.

745PM - visit MFU

10PM - enjoy bedtime farts

11PM - go to sleep and dream about urinating on liberals.

[cinnamon kid]

quotaman you,ve come up trumps again.

[jocky king]

I like to smell mine alone ... 555 , can't stand the others .

[sinbad5]

I can guarantee you that my barfine from Babydolls last night did not share the view on the benefits of inhaling fart. I have to admit, I stepped out of the room myself for a minute.

[One hung low]

I must see a doctor, something is wrong with me, my farts smell like roses!

Or so I tell my tilak 55555