Posted on 10/28/2008 5:30:25 AM PDT by Mr. Brightside
The Stink in Farts Controls Blood Pressure
Amelia Tomas
livescience Staff
livescience.com – Thu Oct 23, 3:21 pm ET
A smelly rotten-egg gas in farts controls blood pressure in mice, a new study finds.
The unpleasant aroma of the gas, called hydrogen sulfide (H2S), can be a little too familiar, as it is expelled by bacteria living in the human colon and eventually makes its way, well, out.
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.
"Now that we know hydrogen sulfide's role in regulating blood pressure, it may be possible to design drug therapies that enhance its formation as an alternative to the current methods of treatment for hypertension," said Johns Hopkins neuroscientist Solomon H. Snyder, M.D., a co-author of the study detailed in the Oct. 24th issue of the journal Science.
The research was supported by grants from the U.S. Public Health Service and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research as well as a Research Scientist Award.
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The stink in farts reminds me of the entire Democrat party.
So they are going to medically reproduce farts in people. Glad they warned us first. Just stay away from people with high blood pressure.
I think I’ll have a nice, well balanced breakfast of refried beans, bacon, saurkraut, broccoli, boiled eggs, kimchi, asparagus, and cheap beer.
I’ll put my Manx cat up against your dog anyday. This cat causes people to exit the house via the nearest exit. There is no warning. I call them silent killers.
Al Bore and the Cult of Global Warming won’t be happy to hear this! Hehe!
I just came in here to say...BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRIPPPP. you better crak a winder.
My GF told me she’d rather me just take a pill than fart up the place. LOL, yeah, she loves me, huh?
Chicks don’t burp, fart or sneeze, therefore they must bitch and whine or they will explode.
JUST KIDDING!
True story- our old building had no a/c so we all went out to the parking lot for smoke breaks. Old man Pete cut one so bad outside, we all had to make a quick run back in the 100 plus degree building..
Quite a cat, since my dog’s half Pit. He was supposed to be half Great Dane, but grew up to be half Pit.
Read a story not too long ago about some whale
watchers that were close to a big sperm whale and
all of a sudden some great bubbles came to the
surface-—they said it was the most horrible smell
they ever experienced.
When I was a kid a long time ago,plowing tobacco behind
a mule,sometimes they`d cut one so bad you`d have
to stop and move over about 10 rows to get outta the area
Thou smelt it, thou dealt it...
Maybe our “civilized” conduct is what is killing us. Common sense would dictate that to hold it in can’t be good for you. Little kids at school used to rip these things off in classroom and everyone would get a huge bellylaugh. I can’t remember anyone of them ever being diagnosed as having high blood pressure.
This explains why garlic is good for your heart.
I’m not sure about pretty girls but I know Hillary farts...
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1791239
Ha!
Can you imagine the stench coming from rat election parties on Tuesday night, November 4th?
Great... something to look forward too.. old guys hopped up on Viagra and fart pills.
So the commercials with the man/woman in seperate tubs watching the sun set on the horizon... now the guy’s tub will be jacuzi like bubblin’ away while the woman’s won’t.
Ha!
PING!!!
This reminds me of a bit from the National Lampoon radio show recorded back in the days of “Whale songs”. It was a public service announcement about saving the whales from the gas they were releasing.
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