Eps 1: Why Huffing Farts is Healthy For You
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No, stinky farts do not prevent cancer or treat diseases, despite the headlines Friday going viral throughout the weekend. Researchers at Exeter University in England found evidence smelling farts has been linked to staving off diseases like heart attacks, strokes, and cancer.
Hydrogen sulfide, a gas that gives farts their foul smell, may help lower the risk of heart attacks, strokes, cancer, and may help ward off dementia, the study suggests. The study, from University of Exeter in England, found the hydrogen sulfide gas found in rotten eggs and flatulence may lower the risk of cancer, heart attack, stroke, arthritis and dementia. The study, published in Medicinal Chemistry Communications, found that hydrogen sulfide gas found in rotten eggs and flatulence may be a key element for treating diseases.
The research indicates that hydrogen sulfide, one of the gaseous, egg-like substances that is common in the wind, may lower the risk of several potentially fatal diseases. To put it in a simple manner, small doses of hydrogen sulfide can help to maintain healthy cells, thus helping ward off diseases like dementia, diabetes, and even cancer. Complicating matters is the research showing that certain tumor cells, such as those in the colon and ovaries, make significant amounts of hydrogen sulfide, which helps certain tumor cells survive and grow.
Hydorgen sulfide is toxic in high doses, however, researchers found cellular exposure to small amounts of the gas may protect against mitochondrial damage, which has a number of health implications. Researchers found that hydrogen sulfide actually can lower risk for several potentially deadly diseases such as cancer, heart attacks, and strokes, and can protect against arthritis and dementia as we age, and also helps to maintain mitochondria, which fuel energy production in cells of blood vessels and regulate inflammation.
Scientists claim that indulging the toxic gas hydrogen sulfide - the byproduct of your bodys workings breaking down foods - may help prevent cancer. Hydrogen sulfide is one of the gases released to provide farts their god-awful stench, but it is also conferred a variety of health benefits. Smelling the smell of a fart, as well as its counterpart, hydrogen sulfide, may aid this process to curb inflammation and help it to go away.
Researchers developed a synthetic version of this, which they called AP39, that bypasses the inhalation of actual smelly snorting farts, and delivers tiny amounts of gas into the mitochondria. Surprisingly, much of the gases inside the fart are not scented, with only a very tiny percentage producing the distinctive odour from the fart. A fart, also called gas, passing wind, or flatulence, is caused by an internal buildup of gases formed in digestion and breathing.
Too much farting may be an indication that the normal gas dynamics in your gut have been compromised. Farting gas can be a signal that our intestinal microbes are busy keeping us alive and well. Eating foods that produce gas is the microbes only means of getting needed nutrients.
Without gas, our cells die and lose their ability to fight disease. When an unhealthy cell takes hydrogen sulfide, the hydrogen sulfide allows the cell to live; if this process is reversed, which it never is, then the cell dies and loses the ability to regulate and control inflammation in the body.
Farts contain hydrogen sulfide, a gas produced from some natural body processes, and necessary as a part of the cells functions. The primary gas trapped within the body that causes farts is nitrogen, which researchers estimate accounts for around 20% to 90% of all gases causing farts. Odourous farts are typically caused by gases produced by colonic bacteria when fermenting the uneabsorbable residues from foods that make their way to the bowel.
Habituation means if we are constantly farting--which we all are, at around a quart per day--we are very accustomed to our farts odors, says Loretta Breuning, PhD, who writes on brain chemistry and the social behaviors of mammals. It is also possible you are used to that smell because your family is just a bit more likely than others to fart.
Of course, hydrogen sulfide can be lethal in high doses, which means sniffing out a fart or two here and there is a far better, safer idea than, say, putting rotten eggs all over the house. While you may continue to enjoy these farts if you wish, the free H2S in these fart smoke is going to provide no health benefits as far as I am concerned.
Researchers made a new carrier of our familiar fart-scented H2S Our familiar fart-scented H2S. When the researchers tested a H2S-donor, the researchers AP39, on human cells , they found that the H2S was increased within the cells -- in fact, close to the cells. The researchers also found the drug reduced mitochondrial stress damage when delivered together with a dose of a solution of hydrogen peroxide.
The researchers also denied showing any health benefits of breathing flatulence, or that it could lower your chances of getting cancer. Breathalyzer tests may help doctors to identify bad bacteria if they are accidentally in your system, but those tests cannot reach a powerful source.
After all, high-fiber diets do tend to produce gas, but they also nourish good bacteria, which build your immune system and protect you against various diseases, such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and obesity. The stench of flatulence has hidden health benefits -- and may help ward off cancer, stroke, heart attacks and dementia, scientists reveal.