Sunday, October 26, 2008

The Stink in Farts Controls Blood Pressure

I was reading an article on yahoo news and i found this article about farts and how they control your blood pressure. The bad scent that we smell when we fart is called hydrogen sulfide. It is when there is bacteria sitting in your colon and it makes its way out your body. In the article what they stated about farts and controlling your blood pressure was "The new research found that cells lining mice's blood vessels naturally make the gas and this action can help keep the rodents' blood pressure low by relaxing the blood vessels to prevent hypertension (high blood pressure). This gas is "no doubt" produced in cells lining human blood vessels too, the researchers said..." The researches said this gas is also produced in cells lining human blood vessels as well. I thought this was pretty interesting and crazy. I never thought that farts and blood pressure would ever relate to each other. 

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