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Why We Need a Better Way to Measure Farts
BBC ^ | 1April 2016 | David Robson

Posted on 04/03/2016 8:33:34 AM PDT by Covenantor

Excerpt:

I hate to say it, but doctors have something of a flatulence problem: at the moment, they know embarrassingly little about the bubbles brewing in your bowels.

“What comes out of the backside only tells us about the last 20cm of the gut,” says Peter Gibson at Monash University in Victoria, Australia....

Gibson wants to know what’s happening in the previous 130cm of the digestive tract, leading up to that final explosion.... Digestion depends on the subtle interactions between your genes, diet, metabolism, and the myriad micro-organisms inhabiting your body, each of which may leave its signature in gaseous by-products. A noticeable change in your farts’ peculiar recipe might therefore be a sign of serious diseases affecting any part of that process. “We know bits and pieces about it, but it’s been very difficult to get to the crux of what is happening,” Gibson says. To this end, his team are working on a probe that would work its way through your gut, measuring your gas at every stage of digestion.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: farts; flatulence; health
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1 posted on 04/03/2016 8:33:34 AM PDT by Covenantor
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To: Covenantor

....”Strangely enough, the most popular method to measure flatulence has been a breath test”....

more at source url


2 posted on 04/03/2016 8:34:51 AM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: Covenantor

“Silent but deadly” isn’t descriptive enough?


3 posted on 04/03/2016 8:35:23 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Covenantor

Although I am a medical researcher by training, and any area of health should be within my interests... there are areas where I will not go. This is one.


4 posted on 04/03/2016 8:36:09 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: Covenantor

Such a noxious topic, albeit an important one.


5 posted on 04/03/2016 8:37:34 AM PDT by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: Covenantor

A middle age man went to visit his elderly father in the assisted living home.

When the nurse wheeled him in to meet his son, the old man started to lean forward in his wheelchair. The nurse grabbed his shoulders and sat him back up straight.

The old man then started falling to his left. Again the nurse straighted him up.

The old man then started falling to his right. Again, the nurse straightened him up.

At this point, the old man began to cry. The son said, “Dad, why are you crying?”.

The old man pointed to the nurse and said, “She won’t let me fart”.


6 posted on 04/03/2016 8:38:02 AM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32 (www.greenhornshooting.com - Professional handgun training.)
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To: Tax-chick; moose07; NicknamedBob; NoCmpromiz; Monkey Face; Darksheare; ArGee; null and void

not Monty Python...


7 posted on 04/03/2016 8:38:48 AM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: exDemMom

At least not without a gasmask.


8 posted on 04/03/2016 8:38:55 AM PDT by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: Covenantor

The sun has set on England...


9 posted on 04/03/2016 8:38:57 AM PDT by Fido969 ("The hardest thing in the world to understand is income taxes" - Albert Einstein)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

LOL!


10 posted on 04/03/2016 8:39:41 AM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: Covenantor

the length of cruz’s nose would be one way.


11 posted on 04/03/2016 8:41:37 AM PDT by biggredd1
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12 posted on 04/03/2016 8:43:42 AM PDT by Doomonyou (Let them eat Lead.)
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To: exDemMom
"... there are areas where I will not go. This is one.

Doesn't pass the sniff test, eh?

13 posted on 04/03/2016 8:44:48 AM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: Covenantor
Source of global warming:


14 posted on 04/03/2016 8:44:52 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: Fido969

“The sun has set on England...”

Not for another couple of hours yet. The Clocks changed at the weekend.
:)


15 posted on 04/03/2016 8:51:47 AM PDT by moose07 (DMCS (Dit Me Cong San ) - Nah. Put the Cheese down and step away.!)
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To: moose07

Maybe that catch phrase from Monty Python WAS a medical diagnosis.


16 posted on 04/03/2016 8:53:37 AM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: Covenantor

This is going to involve the creation of the ‘Most expensive machine in the Hospital’ that also ‘goes Ping!’.
There’s a blast from the past. :)


17 posted on 04/03/2016 8:57:39 AM PDT by moose07 (DMCS (Dit Me Cong San ) - Nah. Put the Cheese down and step away.!)
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To: Covenantor
As a Flatulent-American, I appreciate any study that unmasks the discrimination we face daily.

Studies also show that it's just not healthy to withhold bodily functions.

So I will continue, unimpeded and damn you all!

18 posted on 04/03/2016 8:58:51 AM PDT by PROCON
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To: Covenantor; 3D-JOY; abner; Abundy; AGreatPer; Albion Wilde; AliVeritas; alisasny; ...

Terrence and Philip would approve.

Combined PING! and DANG!


19 posted on 04/03/2016 9:04:35 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Stick a fork in America; she's done.)
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To: All

The contest...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FyD95Hv7CU


20 posted on 04/03/2016 9:06:43 AM PDT by az_gila
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