Farting can help treat high blood pressure
LONDON: Flatulence could help treat patients with high blood pressure, according to a new research. Hydrogen sulphide - a toxic gas that is generated by bacteria living in the human gut - has been shown to control blood pressure in mice. The study showed that the rodents with higher levels of the gas had lower blood pressure than those with less.
Boffins at Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore, Maryland , US, 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. Now researchers at China's Southeast University in Nanjing are trying to figure out the possibility of using this to create a treatment for people suffering from high BP.
"Despite the treatment's potential, using gas to treat high BPhas yet to be tested on humans," Sun quoted professor Yao Yuyu from Zhongda Hospital as saying.
LONDON: Flatulence could help treat patients with high blood pressure, according to a new research. Hydrogen sulphide - a toxic gas that is generated by bacteria living in the human gut - has been shown to control blood pressure in mice. The study showed that the rodents with higher levels of the gas had lower blood pressure than those with less.
Boffins at Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore, Maryland , US, 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. Now researchers at China's Southeast University in Nanjing are trying to figure out the possibility of using this to create a treatment for people suffering from high BP.
"Despite the treatment's potential, using gas to treat high BPhas yet to be tested on humans," Sun quoted professor Yao Yuyu from Zhongda Hospital as saying.
Boffins at Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore, Maryland , US, 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. Now researchers at China's Southeast University in Nanjing are trying to figure out the possibility of using this to create a treatment for people suffering from high BP.
"Despite the treatment's potential, using gas to treat high BPhas yet to be tested on humans," Sun quoted professor Yao Yuyu from Zhongda Hospital as saying.
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