Woman's fart smell, why it's worse than men...It's actually good for your body? A twist
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However, it is attracting attention as it is argued that a woman's fart with a stinking smell can be rather beneficial to the body.
According to foreign media such as the New York Post, gastroenterologist and researcher Dr. Michael Levitt began an experiment in 1998 to determine what gases the unique unpleasant smell of the room comes from.
◇The cause of the odor at the room is hydrogen sulfide...Women are more concentrated
He recruited 16 adults with no history of gastrointestinal disease to wear the 'gas collection system'.
The system consisted of rectal tubes and gas sacs. A series of farts were collected after feeding pinto beans and taking laxatives.
Since then, the research team has analyzed the components of farts through gas analysis, and conducted an experiment in which two evaluators directly smell them.
As a result, the main cause of human fart odor was hydrogen sulfide, which is well known as the cause of compounds including sulfur, especially 'rotten egg odor'. Men tended to release relatively more gas, but in women's farts, hydrogen sulfide at a concentration 'significantly higher than that of men was detected. Two evaluators also reported that women's fart smell is more irritating and stinking than men.
◇"Small amounts of hydrogen sulfide, effect of improving cognitive function of Alzheimer's disease"
There is a twist here.
Some scientists argued that "farts of women who smell worse can be rather beneficial to the body.'
Of course, inhaling in large quantities is dangerous, but a small amount of hydrogen sulfide can prevent brain cells from getting old and sick.
Hydrogen sulfide is responsible for various functions in our body, one of which is 'sulfhydration' that chemically transforms proteins to help transmit signals between brain cells. However, studies have shown that this level of sulfhydration decreases with age, especially in Alzheimer's patients.
In 2021, researchers at Johns Hopkins Medical School conducted an experiment on mice to study human Alzheimer's disease.
Mice were injected with hydrogen sulfide-carrying compounds (NaGYY) and observed changes in memory and motor function for 12 weeks.
As a result, the hydrogen sulfide input group improved cognitive and motor functions by about 50% compared to the untreated group, and the ability to remember platform exit locations improved and moved much more actively.
The experiment suggested the possibility that some Alzheimer's disease-related behavioral symptoms could be improved by hydrogen sulfide injection, but it is still unclear if the same effect is present in humans.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
