Farting helps reduce high blood pressure.

Here’s something for the perpetual air polluters to base their arguments on…According to a fairly recent study (from 2012) by scientists at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, flatulence could help patients with high blood pressure.

The doctors established that hydrogen sulphide in a fart (the rotten-egg smell) is also produced by an enzyme in blood vessels where it makes them relax, thereby lowering blood pressure. Did you know how the toxic gas comes to be? It’s generated by bacteria living in your gut. It has been proven to control blood pressure in mice. Mice with higher levels of the gas happened to have lower BP as opposed to those with less – same case for humans, implying the higher the better, or in other words, the more toxic the fart, the lower chances you have of suffering from high blood pressure. So, go on, fart away…