SCIENTISTS SAY YOUR FARTS COULD REVEAL SOMETHING IMPORTANT ABOUT YOUR HEALTH

Your bottom could be revealing important information about your health - or even offering an early warning of serious illness.

So scientists are trying to create a ‘probe’ which can travel through people’s digestive systems to find out more.


But even the smell of farts can offer some insight - particularly if you have persistently ‘eggy’ ones.

High levels of hydrogen sulphide gas could be a sign of a damaged gut lining, inflammatory bowel disease or even bowel cancer.

If you’re producing too much hydrogen and methane (lots of gas), it could be a sign you are not digesting starches and sugars – and they’re fermenting in your gut, according to the BBC.

Now researchers at Monash University in Victoria, Australia. are developing a probe which could work its way through people’s guts – to find out where the problem is.

Peter Gibson of Monash University says, ‘We know bits and pieces about it, but it’s been very difficult to get to the crux of what is happening.

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