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Your farts could cure high blood pressure
Tuesday July 03, 2012 11:05:13 AM,
IANS
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London: Though most of
us may find it quite embarrassing in case we were caught breaking
wind, a new study has in fact suggested flatulence could help
patients with high blood pressure.
Scientists at Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore, Maryland,
US, have found that hydrogen sulphide in flatus - informally known
as a fart - is also produced by an enzyme in blood vessels where
it relaxes them and lowers blood pressure, The Sun reported.
Hydrogen sulphide -- a toxic gas generated by bacteria living in
the human gut -- has been shown to control blood pressure in mice.
Those with higher levels of the gas had lower blood pressure than
rodents with less.
Researchers at a Chinese university in Nanjing are trying to work
out whether this could be used to create a treatment for people
suffering from high blood pressure.
Yao Yuyu from the university's Zhongda Hospital said: "Despite the
treatment's potential, using gas to treat high blood pressure has
yet to be tested on humans.
"The effective dosage could prove difficult to establish due to
the difference in size between humans and mice."
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