Posted on 04/03/2016 8:33:34 AM PDT by Covenantor
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I hate to say it, but doctors have something of a flatulence problem: at the moment, they know embarrassingly little about the bubbles brewing in your bowels.
What comes out of the backside only tells us about the last 20cm of the gut, says Peter Gibson at Monash University in Victoria, Australia....
Gibson wants to know whats happening in the previous 130cm of the digestive tract, leading up to that final explosion.... Digestion depends on the subtle interactions between your genes, diet, metabolism, and the myriad micro-organisms inhabiting your body, each of which may leave its signature in gaseous by-products. A noticeable change in your farts peculiar recipe might therefore be a sign of serious diseases affecting any part of that process. We know bits and pieces about it, but its been very difficult to get to the crux of what is happening, Gibson says. To this end, his team are working on a probe that would work its way through your gut, measuring your gas at every stage of digestion.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Everybody loves their own brand, whether they admit it or no. There’s science there, somewhere ...
Of course. This way the device can be recovered and reused. Have to establish a baseline, you know.
After fighting going into a nursing home every inch of the way, the old man was in a good mood.
His son was happy for him and asked him what made him change his mood.
“I have a foxy nurse, and every time I get wood, she gives me a ‘sponge bath’!”
The next week, as soon as his son enters the room, his father demanded to leave.
“What happened, Pop? What about the, uh, sponge baths?”
“Every time I fart they give me an enema!” yelled his father.
“Well, you know what you used to tell me. In life you have to learn to take the good with the bad.”
“Son, you don’t understand. I get wood about every week or so. I fart a couple dozen times a day!”
That was classic! Thanks so much.
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