Tuesday, October 28, 2008
The next time someone says you are stinking up the place
As you play a merry tune on your nether flute, you can tell them you are just looking out for your health. From Live Science we get all the fragrant details.
A smelly rotten-egg gas in farts controls blood pressure in mice, a new study finds.So go ahead, give a hoot or two or three. It's good for you.
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.
Hydrogen sulfide is the most recently discovered member of a family of gasotransmitters, small molecules inside our bodies with important physiological functions.
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