That hydrogen sulfide, which contributes to the terrible smell of flatulence, has potential health benefits for a range of severe body injury is not new. (There’s your arrogant sentence from a non-science publication this week.) But it’s not the easiest thing getting a researcher to provide quotable comment on the fact that fart-smell could be beneficial to health, which is why a recent endeavor at the University of Exeter in the U.K. is just absolute gold.
Scientists developed a compound that targets “delivery of very small amounts of the substance to the right (or key) places inside cells,” to help with diabetes, stroke, heart attacks and dementia. Dr. Mark Wood, an Exeter lecturer, had this to say:
“Although hydrogen sulfide 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.”
Flatulence, indirectly a “healthcare hero.”
#Science.
A copy of a highly readable research article on the subject is here.
