Health Check; Fart For Your Health
These days, it seems to me that people are coy about absolutely everything. Don’t get me wrong, I understand the appeal of maintaining an air of mystery. Still, sometimes you just have to square your shoulders and call a spade a spade. I think this is especially true when it comes to information on leading a healthy lifestyle.
Health, even at it’s very best, can be kind of messy and gross. That’s why it’s so important to have these frank conversations from time to time. Whether you’re touching on why it’s healthier to sleep in the nude, or assessing the shape and consistency of your, um, poop, it’s all valuable information.
Today’s topic? Flatulence. Farting. Passing gas. No matter how you put it, it doesn’t get any prettier, but it can have a dramatic influence on your health. Absolutely everybody in the whole world has to do it for their digestive health; it would be much more worrisome if you didn’t fart.
Farting is a natural part of the human digestive process. In fact, a person would have to consume nothing but refined sugars to avoid passing gas. We each fart, on average, five to ten times per day, and, contrary to popular belief, women fart just as much as men. Farting in public is generally frowned upon, but that doesn’t mean you should be ashamed of a little gas. Farts are a sign we are healthy.
Silent or deadly, intestinal gas can indicate healthy gut bacteria. Billions of different gut bacteria make their homes inside our intestines. They are tasked with extracting energy and vitamins from the food we consume, helping to boost our immune system and improve gastrointestinal function.
There are a variety of foods that can lead to excessive flatulence, including beans, artichokes, dairy products, sweet potatoes, oats, nuts, soy, and wheat. The thing most of these foods have in common is that they are high in nutritional value, especially complex carbohydrates. If your farts are on the smellier side, then you may want to cut back on the amount of food you eat containing sulfuric compounds, including hydrogen sulfide and methanethiol, or methyl mercaptan.
Oh, and the next time you let one rip don’t be embarrassed to take a whiff, it’s only natural. We all like the smell of our own fart more than another person’s. Part of it is because we prefer what is familiar. The other part is because smelling something as odorous as another person’s fart triggers a natural response to protect ourselves from something that could potentially be poisonous or bacteria-ridden. When farting becomes disruptive to a person’s life, it could be a sign of gastrointestinal illnesses, like Crohn’s disease. People suffering from Crohn’s often pass smelly farts and lack the ability to keep from doing so.
So it happened again. You let one slip out, and what’s worse, it happened in front of company. If this reminds you of a recent situation, you have to ask yourself, should you really have been holding back your wind in the first place? Let’s face it your body is not a car, so you should not be holding on to your gas. Here are some health benefits of farting you need to know.
It Gets Rid Of Waste
Although it is a natural occurrence in the human body many of us call fart a ‘toxic gas’. In reality, the wind you break is actually a sign of good health. Your body releases the stinky gas as a part of its digestion process. Farting helps to expel the parts of digested food that could not be used or turned into energy for the body to use.
It Helps With Bloating
Have you ever noticed that after a while, holding in your gas leaves you with a feeling that can only be described as balloon like? According to Dr. Lisa Ganjhu, a doctor of osteopathy and a clinical assistant professor of medicine and gastroenterology at NYU Langone Medical Center in New York City, “Anything that affects downstream will affect upstream.”
What Dr. Ganjhu means by this is, any air that builds in your gastrointestinal tract will eventually try to escape. If it cannot find clear passage through your colon it will more than likely push its way upwards in the intestinal tract causing bloating in the midsection. To avoid this bloating, or better still get rid of it, all you need to do is break some wind.
It’s A Part Of Your Body’s Warning System
Your body can be hard to understand, but, that does not mean what it is trying to tell you is not important. When you experience chronic flatulence your stomach is trying to give you a warning. This warning usually has to do with your diet; it could mean that you are eating something your stomach is unable to fully digest, or, that you are eating something your body just can’t break down.
As the average amount of flatulence you should experience in a day is anywhere from 10 to 20 individual farts, if you feel you are experiencing far beyond this average it could mean you need to make a drastic change in your diet.
Prevent Injury To Your Colon
It might seem crazy, but holding in your farts could do serious damage to your colon. If you suffer from severe obstruction in your colon, you could be putting yourself at risk for a serious, and painful, colon burst. According to Dr. Ganjhu when it comes to you colon “If there are any weaknesses in the walls, eventually it can burst.” Although, it should be noted, according to Dr. Ganjhu “that kind of thing only happens with critically ill patients, and even then, it’s rare.”
It Gives You Relief
Probably the most universally applicable benefit to why you should fart is that it simply gives you relief. With all the stress that a normal day has to offer, the last thing you should add to your worries list is the worry of having to hold one in. The truth is by letting it go you will be much happier and much healthier.
The best advice you could ever get from your parents is the last thing you might have expected. It truly is much better out than in, so go ahead and let it go already.
It Can Help You Balance Your Diet
We all need a balanced diet to stay healthy, and your farts might help clue you into what foods your gut needs. Different foods produce different kinds of gas, letting you know what you may be missing from your diet, or overindulging in.
For example, if you rarely pass gas, you probably need more fiber and foods like lentils, beans, and kale in your diet. Eating too much red meat, meanwhile, can produce a deeply unpleasant smell later, which tells you that you may need to cut back your consumption.
The Odor Is Good For You
Yes, you read that right, sniffing farts may actually be healthy for you. It sounds weird, but bear with me. The next time someone at your office lets out a "silent but deadly" emission, maybe you should thank them. A new study at the University of Exeter in England suggests that exposure to hydrogen sulfide — a.k.a. what your body produces as bacteria breaks down food, causing gas — could prevent mitochondria damage. Yep, the implication is what you're thinking: People are taking the research to mean that smelling farts could prevent disease and even cancer.
This gas is the “rotten egg” smell often present in digestive gas, and is toxic in large doses, but in small doses may stave off cell damage and prevent strokes and heart attacks down the line.
The study, published in the Medicinal Chemistry Communications journal, found that hydrogen sulfide gas in rotten eggs and flatulence could be a key factor in treating diseases. "Although hydrogen sulfide gas is well known as a pungent, foul-smelling gas in rotten eggs and flatulence, it is naturally produced in the body and could in fact be a healthcare hero with significant implications for future therapies for a variety of diseases" Dr. Mark Wood, a professor at the University of Exeter, said in a statement.
While hydrogen sulfide gas is harmful in large doses, the study suggests that "a whiff here and there has the power to reduce risks of cancer, strokes, heart attacks, arthritis, and dementia by preserving mitochondria," Time reports.
Dr. Matt Whiteman, a University of Exeter professor who worked on the study, said in a statement that researchers are even replicating the natural gas in a new compound, AP39, to reap its health benefits. The scientists are delivering "very small amounts" of AP39 directly into mitochondrial cells to repair damage, which "could hold the key to future therapies," the university's statement reveals.
Let’s face it; there is no better feeling than releasing a long-held fart. Sure, the actual act of farting might be embarrassing if you’re caught by the wrong person, but the relief of passing gas is worth it.
Holding in gas can make you grumpy, uncomfortable, and snappish; reasonably, releasing boosts your mood considerably!
Were you surprised to learn about the hidden benefits of this stinky bodily function? Don't be selfish, share this frank and honest health guide with friends and family!
Health, even at it’s very best, can be kind of messy and gross. That’s why it’s so important to have these frank conversations from time to time. Whether you’re touching on why it’s healthier to sleep in the nude, or assessing the shape and consistency of your, um, poop, it’s all valuable information.
Today’s topic? Flatulence. Farting. Passing gas. No matter how you put it, it doesn’t get any prettier, but it can have a dramatic influence on your health. Absolutely everybody in the whole world has to do it for their digestive health; it would be much more worrisome if you didn’t fart.
Farting is a natural part of the human digestive process. In fact, a person would have to consume nothing but refined sugars to avoid passing gas. We each fart, on average, five to ten times per day, and, contrary to popular belief, women fart just as much as men. Farting in public is generally frowned upon, but that doesn’t mean you should be ashamed of a little gas. Farts are a sign we are healthy.
Silent or deadly, intestinal gas can indicate healthy gut bacteria. Billions of different gut bacteria make their homes inside our intestines. They are tasked with extracting energy and vitamins from the food we consume, helping to boost our immune system and improve gastrointestinal function.
There are a variety of foods that can lead to excessive flatulence, including beans, artichokes, dairy products, sweet potatoes, oats, nuts, soy, and wheat. The thing most of these foods have in common is that they are high in nutritional value, especially complex carbohydrates. If your farts are on the smellier side, then you may want to cut back on the amount of food you eat containing sulfuric compounds, including hydrogen sulfide and methanethiol, or methyl mercaptan.
Oh, and the next time you let one rip don’t be embarrassed to take a whiff, it’s only natural. We all like the smell of our own fart more than another person’s. Part of it is because we prefer what is familiar. The other part is because smelling something as odorous as another person’s fart triggers a natural response to protect ourselves from something that could potentially be poisonous or bacteria-ridden. When farting becomes disruptive to a person’s life, it could be a sign of gastrointestinal illnesses, like Crohn’s disease. People suffering from Crohn’s often pass smelly farts and lack the ability to keep from doing so.
So it happened again. You let one slip out, and what’s worse, it happened in front of company. If this reminds you of a recent situation, you have to ask yourself, should you really have been holding back your wind in the first place? Let’s face it your body is not a car, so you should not be holding on to your gas. Here are some health benefits of farting you need to know.
It Gets Rid Of Waste
Although it is a natural occurrence in the human body many of us call fart a ‘toxic gas’. In reality, the wind you break is actually a sign of good health. Your body releases the stinky gas as a part of its digestion process. Farting helps to expel the parts of digested food that could not be used or turned into energy for the body to use.
It Helps With Bloating
Have you ever noticed that after a while, holding in your gas leaves you with a feeling that can only be described as balloon like? According to Dr. Lisa Ganjhu, a doctor of osteopathy and a clinical assistant professor of medicine and gastroenterology at NYU Langone Medical Center in New York City, “Anything that affects downstream will affect upstream.”
What Dr. Ganjhu means by this is, any air that builds in your gastrointestinal tract will eventually try to escape. If it cannot find clear passage through your colon it will more than likely push its way upwards in the intestinal tract causing bloating in the midsection. To avoid this bloating, or better still get rid of it, all you need to do is break some wind.
It’s A Part Of Your Body’s Warning System
Your body can be hard to understand, but, that does not mean what it is trying to tell you is not important. When you experience chronic flatulence your stomach is trying to give you a warning. This warning usually has to do with your diet; it could mean that you are eating something your stomach is unable to fully digest, or, that you are eating something your body just can’t break down.
As the average amount of flatulence you should experience in a day is anywhere from 10 to 20 individual farts, if you feel you are experiencing far beyond this average it could mean you need to make a drastic change in your diet.
Prevent Injury To Your Colon
It might seem crazy, but holding in your farts could do serious damage to your colon. If you suffer from severe obstruction in your colon, you could be putting yourself at risk for a serious, and painful, colon burst. According to Dr. Ganjhu when it comes to you colon “If there are any weaknesses in the walls, eventually it can burst.” Although, it should be noted, according to Dr. Ganjhu “that kind of thing only happens with critically ill patients, and even then, it’s rare.”
It Gives You Relief
Probably the most universally applicable benefit to why you should fart is that it simply gives you relief. With all the stress that a normal day has to offer, the last thing you should add to your worries list is the worry of having to hold one in. The truth is by letting it go you will be much happier and much healthier.
The best advice you could ever get from your parents is the last thing you might have expected. It truly is much better out than in, so go ahead and let it go already.
It Can Help You Balance Your Diet
We all need a balanced diet to stay healthy, and your farts might help clue you into what foods your gut needs. Different foods produce different kinds of gas, letting you know what you may be missing from your diet, or overindulging in.
For example, if you rarely pass gas, you probably need more fiber and foods like lentils, beans, and kale in your diet. Eating too much red meat, meanwhile, can produce a deeply unpleasant smell later, which tells you that you may need to cut back your consumption.
The Odor Is Good For You
Yes, you read that right, sniffing farts may actually be healthy for you. It sounds weird, but bear with me. The next time someone at your office lets out a "silent but deadly" emission, maybe you should thank them. A new study at the University of Exeter in England suggests that exposure to hydrogen sulfide — a.k.a. what your body produces as bacteria breaks down food, causing gas — could prevent mitochondria damage. Yep, the implication is what you're thinking: People are taking the research to mean that smelling farts could prevent disease and even cancer.
This gas is the “rotten egg” smell often present in digestive gas, and is toxic in large doses, but in small doses may stave off cell damage and prevent strokes and heart attacks down the line.
The study, published in the Medicinal Chemistry Communications journal, found that hydrogen sulfide gas in rotten eggs and flatulence could be a key factor in treating diseases. "Although hydrogen sulfide gas is well known as a pungent, foul-smelling gas in rotten eggs and flatulence, it is naturally produced in the body and could in fact be a healthcare hero with significant implications for future therapies for a variety of diseases" Dr. Mark Wood, a professor at the University of Exeter, said in a statement.
While hydrogen sulfide gas is harmful in large doses, the study suggests that "a whiff here and there has the power to reduce risks of cancer, strokes, heart attacks, arthritis, and dementia by preserving mitochondria," Time reports.
Dr. Matt Whiteman, a University of Exeter professor who worked on the study, said in a statement that researchers are even replicating the natural gas in a new compound, AP39, to reap its health benefits. The scientists are delivering "very small amounts" of AP39 directly into mitochondrial cells to repair damage, which "could hold the key to future therapies," the university's statement reveals.
Let’s face it; there is no better feeling than releasing a long-held fart. Sure, the actual act of farting might be embarrassing if you’re caught by the wrong person, but the relief of passing gas is worth it.
Holding in gas can make you grumpy, uncomfortable, and snappish; reasonably, releasing boosts your mood considerably!
Were you surprised to learn about the hidden benefits of this stinky bodily function? Don't be selfish, share this frank and honest health guide with friends and family!
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