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sojusucks
Joined: 31 May 2008
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 Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 12:10 am Post subject: Farting & Blood Pressure |
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This doesn't mean that it is acceptable to let one rip in the middle of a crowd.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20081023/sc_livescience/thestinkinfartscontrolsbloodpressure;_ylt=AnZkN5A4jUARZTuFTDRCvOqs0NUE
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The Stink in Farts Controls Blood Pressure
livescience.com � Thu Oct 23, 3:21 pm ETA smelly rotten-egg gas in farts controls blood pressure in mice, a new study finds.
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.
"Now that we know hydrogen sulfide's role in regulating blood pressure, it may be possible to design drug therapies that enhance its formation as an alternative to the current methods of treatment for hypertension," said Johns Hopkins neuroscientist Solomon H. Snyder, M.D., a co-author of the study detailed in the Oct. 24th issue of the journal Science.
Snyder and his colleagues compared normal mice to mice that were missing a gene for an enzyme known as CSE, long suspected as being responsible for making hydrogen sulfide. As they measured hydrogen sulfide levels taken from tissues of the CSE-deficient mice, the scientists found that the gas was depleted in the cardiovascular systems of the altered mice. By contrast, normal mice had higher levels of the gas, thereby showing that hydrogen sulfide is naturally made by mammalian tissues using CSE.
Next, the mice were subjected to higher blood pressures comparable to serious hypertension in humans. Scientists had them respond to a chemical called methacholine that relaxes normal blood vessels. The blood vessels of the CSE-lacking mice hardly relaxed, indicating that hydrogen sulfide is a huge contender for regulating blood pressure.
Hydrogen sulfide is the most recently discovered member of a family of gasotransmitters, small molecules inside our bodies with important physiological functions.
This study is the first to reveal that the CSE enzyme that triggers hydrogen sulfide is activated itself in the same way as other enzymes when they trigger their respective gasotransmitter, such as a nitric oxide-forming enzyme that also regulates blood pressure, Dr. Snyder said.
Because gasotransmitters are common in mammals all over the evolutionary tree, these findings on the importance of hydrogen sulfide are thought to have broad applications to human diseases, such as diabetes and neurodegenerative diseases.
The research was supported by grants from the U.S. Public Health Service and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research as well as a Research Scientist Award. |
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seoulteacher
Joined: 18 Nov 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 5:01 am Post subject: Re: Farting & Blood Pressure |
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| sojusucks wrote: |
| This doesn't mean that it is acceptable to let one rip in the middle of a crowd. |
And, as if on cue, received earlier today from a friend in Barbados:
OP, see from 2:03...
'BOTTOM IN YUH FACE' (calypso, song) by THE INCREDIBLE MYRON B
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJWT02HjgBM
Vocab:
a maxi taxi = a 12-seater mini bus taxi, travelling a set route & picking up & dropping off passengers en route
to pupps = to let one rip/to pass gas
No mention is made in the song about blood pressure relief. However, one can surmise a rise in blood pressure among the puppsing passenger's neighbours...  |
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sojourner1
Joined: 17 Apr 2007
Location: Where meggi swim and 2 wheeled tractors go sput put chug alugg pug pug
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| Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 2:59 pm Post subject: |
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| So if you eat lots of ham and beans making you fart regularly, you're going to be healthy as a horse. |
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Juregen
Joined: 30 May 2006
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| Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 6:55 pm Post subject: |
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| sojourner1 wrote: |
| So if you eat lots of ham and beans making you fart regularly, you're going to be healthy as a horse. |
It doesn't say that farting a lot is healthy per se. It states that when one farts, the smellier they are, the more your blood had to get rid of the gas to reduce pressure.
So, in case you have high blood pressure, they want to increase the gas released by the blood cells.
They are not going to make you fart more, but your farts will be stinkier. |
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texasspangler
Joined: 02 May 2008
Location: Gangwon-do
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| Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 10:25 pm Post subject: |
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| Juregen wrote: |
They are not going to make you fart more, but your farts will be stinkier. |
Dude don't give them to the teacher that sits across from me. He has no shame, he rips arse after lunch everyday thank God he opens the window...
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