When people eat grains, they always have to deal with “emissions”… How to “puff puff puff” elegantly?

When people eat grains, they always have to deal with "discharge", but farts always come as scheduled without notice and are difficult to control...

If you encounter a fart that is strong, holding it back will hurt your body, and letting it out will hurt your image. How can we fart gracefully? Is it reliable to squeeze it and then let it out?

I'm not farting, I'm passing gas

Farting is a physiological behavior of the human body to expel gas, and everyone experiences it every day. Whether you realize it or not, you fart all the time, but sometimes the fart is not big enough and it slips out quietly without you noticing.

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Studies show that it is normal for adults to "puff" 10-22 times a day.

Exceeding this value means excessive flatulence, which needs to be avoided through diet or exercise.

Men fart more often than women. This is because men eat faster and tend to swallow more air.

Although they are all farts, some farts are muffled, which are released quietly but smell extremely bad, while others are loud farts, which are as loud and harsh as boiling water, but the smell is much more "harmonious". The reason for this is still related to the food we consume.

If you eat foods that contain more sulfides, your farts will be smellier, represented by high-protein foods and cruciferous vegetables, such as eggs, beef, onions, broccoli, cabbage, etc.

Loud farts are caused by eating difficult-to-digest fiber and starchy foods, such as sweet potatoes, peas, potatoes, etc. The common feature of these foods is that they give you a strong sense of fullness.

Why do stinky farts not make noises and loud farts not smell?

"Stinky farts don't make loud noises, and loud farts don't smell bad" is our default view, but why do we have such a saying?

Most of the gases in farts are odorless, such as hydrogen, oxygen, methane, carbon dioxide, etc. These gases account for 99% of the content. Only the remaining 1% becomes the main force that releases pungent odors, which is the sulfur-containing gas in the fart.

When gas breaks through the anus, it makes a loud noise, which is the source of loud farts.

Because the breaking process is fast, the gas travels in the intestine for a shorter time and contains less sulfur-containing gas, thus reducing the odor of loud farts.

On the contrary, if less gas is produced in the intestines and the person walks slowly, the gas will be mixed with more sulfur-containing gases, causing the phenomenon of "stinky farts without sound".

Where did the farts go?

Sometimes, in order to avoid embarrassment, we choose to hold in our farts, which is not a good way to treat our body.

The farts that are held back will eventually find a suitable outlet. They will either gather momentum and wait for the next suitable opportunity to fart, or they will go up the body, allowing the intestines to reabsorb the gas, then circulate through the blood to the lungs, and finally be discharged from the mouth.

Holding in a fart for a long time will not only cause abdominal bloating and affect the digestive function of the stomach and intestines, but may also increase the burden on the liver. So don't be too reserved when it's time to fart. Here's a way to create a silent fart, which can alleviate the embarrassment to a certain extent.

The narrower the fart passage, the higher the pitch will be. Just like when we whistle, we will pout our lips smaller to make the sound brighter. The same is true for farting. If we want to reduce the volume, we need to stretch our buttocks as much as possible. Crossing our legs, turning sideways, or opening half of our buttocks are all good options.

Not too much, not too little is healthy

We mentioned earlier that eating fast and consuming excessive gas-producing foods will lead to more frequent farting. Although farting too much is not healthy, farting too little is also a safety hazard.

The most likely cause of less farts is slow intestinal motility. At this time, proper exercise is needed to help intestinal peristalsis, otherwise the intestinal smooth muscle function will weaken over time.

If your farts are still smelly even without consuming a lot of protein, it is recommended that you go to the hospital for a check-up. It is likely that the balance of gastrointestinal flora is disturbed, causing harmful bacteria to dominate.

So don’t always say “it’s just a small matter”, fart is also a big deal for the body.

Finally, I would like to share with you an interesting scientific experiment. Scientists once asked volunteers to fart into a petri dish while wearing pants or without pants. After 24 hours, they found that when volunteers farted without pants, clumps of two types of bacteria appeared on the petri dish, but when volunteers farted with pants, no bacteria grew on the petri dish.

This magical phenomenon directly tells us: your farts are all held back by your underwear~

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Review expert: Wu Xinsheng, deputy chief physician of the Department of Gastroenterology, the 371st Hospital of the People’s Liberation Army.

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