Study says farting may improve your health

[El Supremo]

KUSA – Whoever smelt it may have dealt it, but according to a new study, whenever someone 'cuts the cheese' they may be helping to save your life.

A study from the University of Exeter in Devon, United Kingdom has released a new study identifying the benefits of hydrogen sulfide. Hydrogen sulfide is toxic in large doses, but it is showing potential health benefits in small doses.

"When cells become stressed by disease, they draw in enzymes to generate minute quantities of hydrogen sulfide. This keeps the mitochondria ticking over and allows cells to live," University of Exeter medical school professor Matt Whiteman said.

"If this doesn't happen, the cells die and lose the ability to regulate survival and control inflammation. We have exploited this natural process by making a compound, called AP39, which slowly delivers very small amounts of this gas specifically to the mitochondria. Our results indicate that if stressed cells are treated with AP39, mitochondria are protected and cells stay alive."

More at: http://www.9news.com/story/news/health/2014/07/13/farting-improve-your-health/12595175/

I knew it!

[SummerSnow]

1. Then hubby must be really healthy

[RKP5637]

2. ...

[Aerows]

11. You wanted to know why vegetarians who use

beans as a large amount of their protein are so healthy? Here you go.

Though most of them imagine they fart perfume and rainbows. Don't get into an elevator with them a few hours after lunch. "Waves Hand" pew.

[RKP5637]

21. Phew!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! n/t

[OnyxCollie]

24. I was a vegetarian for five years, and a vegan for two.

Seven years of being gassy.

[Aerows]

40. I lived with a vegan

Good lord almighty.

I changed the sheets REGULARLY.

[malaise]

6. DUzy

[Aerows]

41. It's the truth

Don't get into an elevator in New Orleans at 2 pm on a Monday. We all had red beans and rice for lunch. Knock you down!!

[malaise]

57. Chick peas

works just as well

[Eleanors38]

30. That's why my cat lasted a long time...

[U4ikLefty]

31. Yeah sure, blame it on the cat

[Eleanors38]

35. Only one left after the Labs passed.

[calimary]

32. Yeah, no shit! I have one of those!

[TlalocW]

3. Well, combine this with the

Research that masturbation is good for male health, and I'll see you suckers in the year 2525!

TlalocW

[Aerows]

9. I'm female and was going to make a comment

But suffice to say, I'll be giving you the high five in a few centuries.

[calimary]

49. Shit! You remind me of this comment from the late author Jacqueline Susann.

She the woman who wrote "Valley of the Dolls" back in the 60s. She was a HUGE success and a pop culture figure because of that book that was a lurid tale of celebrities, Hollywood sex symbols, and pills and booze. She was asked about one of her fellow popular fiction authors, Philip Roth, who had his own HUGE success with his novel "Portnoy's Complaint" - in which masturbation played a key role, shall we say. (We all read these books in high school, usually with another book's cover on them so we could sneak. One of my friends put a Bible cover over it - Catholic school dontchaknow!) Anyway, I believe Jacqueline Susann was asked whether she'd like to meet Philip Roth. She said something to the effect of "yes, but I wouldn't want to shake hands with him."

[Buns_of_Fire]

55. That book sure changed the way I look at liver... nt

[calimary]

64. OMG!!! Me too, although I never liked liver to begin with!

[mike dub]

14. DUzy!!!! nt

[Eleanors38]

36. Life expectancy's increasing as we speak.

[Brigid]

4. Somebody in my building is healthy too.

You should have smelled the elevator when I got home a couple of hours ago.

[Bosonic]

7. Their health will deteriorate if they do it near me

[Aerows]

12. Maybe it means a little

poot in the night.

[Eleanors38]

33. With Labradors its rarely a little poot.

[Aerows]

8. I love Red Beans and Rice on a Monday (NO tradition)

I must be super healthy on Tuesday.

[aikoaiko]

10. My wife was not impressed when I showed her this article.

[Blue Owl]

53. Take her on a ride in the wind tunnel of love

n/t

[JEFF9K]

13. That doesn't pass the smell test.

[Aerows]

42. There is a strange odor about it.

I will admit.

[riderinthestorm]

15. Threads like these reinforce my belief that an agrarian lifestyle is best

We fart, piss and shit whenever nature tells us to. Nobody cares. Nobody even questions how much, how long, who did it.

[tularetom]

16. I'm going to show this article to my kids

I spent years listening to them pretending to choke and puke every time I farted.

The ungrateful weasels owe their good health to me.

[OnyxCollie]

25. The benefit of second-hand fart.

[Eleanors38]

34. Children should be disciplined. Often.

[In_The_Wind]

17. ok, then ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018416850

[Aerows]

43. I think the answer

was blowing In_The_Wind

[Initech]

18. Wasn't this the South Park theory of spontaneous combustion?

http://southpark.cc.com/full-episodes/s03e02-spontaneous-combustion#source=95470ee4-9bca-4d46-8969-3757d59b3734%3A25eeba14-ed8e-11e0-aca6-0026b9414f30&position=16&sort=airdate

[Faryn Balyncd]

19. Do you have a choice?

[Nye Bevan]

22. "The more you toot, the better you feel...." (nt)

[Aerows]

44. They are a magical fruit! n/t

[pinboy3niner]

23. I'll pass

[U4ikLefty]

29. That post was out of odour

[madokie]

26. I ought to be one Healthy Mo'fo

then. When I told my wife about this those were her words, 'cepting the mo'fo part, probably said that under her breath

[madinmaryland]

27. Nice post, Stinky!

[U4ikLefty]

28. Pull my finger

for health

[rug]

37. But if you do it in an elevator it's quite hazrdous to your health.

[mucifer]

38. We vegans are a healthy bunch!

[Kablooie]

39. He needs CPR! -- No wait! I can save him!

I'll leave the rest to your imagination.

[Retrograde]

45. Beans, beans, they're good for your heart...

I'd like to know more about the study, but I would think that the benefits of a diet high in fartables (i.e., vegetables and fruits) is what's beneficial.

[klook]

46. A putative boost to health

I'm glad the University of Exeter let 'er rip and published this study. I bet it's a gas.

[WillyT]

47. All We Are...

Is Dust In The Wind...

Or something...

[Historic NY]

48. Phew.....

I scare myself sometime.

[MrMickeysMom]

50. A sigh is but a breath of air, escaping from the heart...

But when it takes a downward path, it's nothing but a…
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[dem in texas]

51. What about dog farts?

My pitbull mix is super farter. I sometimes feel like a need a gas mask.

[LiberalEsto]

63. My daughter's little half-chihuahua, half cavalier spaniel, is no slouch

in the silent but deadly category. Who could imagine so much noxious vapor lies concealed in that small tummy?

[BlueJazz]

52. Oh Boy.

[freshwest]

54. No way!

[Buns_of_Fire]

56. Note, though, that it's toxic in large doses. (Duh.)

1) Conclusion: A little goes a long way. Be considerate while you're saving people's lives.

2) Why can't *I* get a grant from somewhere to study stuff like this? I'm thinking of an expanded project to determine the relative benefits of, say, Taco Bell bean burrito-induced vs. triple pepperoni pizza-induced vs. Milwaukee's Best Light-induced. And is it affecting the ozone layer?

[Wounded Bear]

58. Belches are the most disgusting things there are, though...

After all, they are just farts your asshole rejected.

[MineralMan]

59. My Maternal Grandmother Used to Say:

"Better out than in."

[davidpdx]

60. I'm probably toxic

Or at least that's what people around me say.

[Javaman]

61. Fert. nt

[LibertyLover]

62. If this is true

I'm going to live to be 110 thanks to the gas my greyhounds produce. Sighthound gas - phew!

[joeybee12]

65. Hey El! This means you'll live to be a 100!

[Orsino]

66. I and those closest to me will enjoy immortality.

And not just the Guinness Book kind now.