Stinky Farts, Shrinking Breasts, and Cancer Fighting Beer.
Medical research boring? Not with headlines like these…
MSNBC led with a new study reporting how Stinky farts may help regulate blood pressure. Seems that a smelly rotten-egg gas (scientific name – hydrogen sulfide) in farts controls blood pressure, at least in mice. This gas, made natural in cells lining the mice’s blood vessels, apparently relaxes the blood vessels which, in turn, helps prevent hypertension (high blood pressure). Wow, wonder if this will open up a whole new avenue of treatments for hypertension based on ’stinky farts”?
Meanwhile, the Telegraph wrote about how Drinking too much coffee ‘could shrink women’s breasts’, based on …read more
