This Is What Your Farts Say About Your Health

Holding a fart can cause different health conditions. It may be embarrassing to others, it can help you know about your health. Check out the article we found at Collective Evolution.

What The Type of Fart Reveals About Your Health

There are many types of farts. Loud, silent, smelly. But what do they all mean? As for stinky farts, this scent is the result of hydrogen sulfide, which is the gas created when your body breaks down foods with sulfur in them. Sulfur is found in a variety of super healthy foods, like broccoli, beans, and cauliflower.

Extremely stinky farts could reveal a health concern worthy of paying attention to. For instance, if you eat dairy and immediately feel the urge to pass gas, this may be a sign that your body is experiencing an intolerance to lactose.

These types of farts can also be a sign of a chronic problem, such as irritable bowel syndrome, celiac disease, or an infection like gastroenteritis.

If your farts don’t have any smell, they’re healthy and normal, and merely mean air has accumulated in the body and is now exiting. Actually, 99 percent of fart is made up of  odorless gases. The remaining 1 percent is typically sulfurous.

Farting a lot? That’s typically normal, too, since the average person usually passes gas about 2o times a day. But should you experience persistent farting that’s followed by discomfort, bloating or an extreme smell, you may have a food allergy.

Smelling Farts and Your Health

When it’s not yours, the smell of a fart is enough to send you running out of a room. And when it is, somehow you can handle it. And that’s not something to be ashamed of. In fact, smelling your own farts can be good for you! There’s a compound within farts called hydrogen sulfide that gives them their rotten-egg stench, and it can actually be good for your health.

A small study found that the smell of farts, or hydrogen sulfide, can have some incredible health benefits, like helping the person who farted live longer, while the smell can quell dementia. Smelling farts can also help with heart disease, diabetes, and arthritis. The scientists say the stinkier the fart the better, too.

But how can this be? It’s all about the ecosystem in our bowels. According to the study, when you fart, you help yourself out.