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Farts consist of odorless gas and odorous gas. The odorless ones consist of nitrogen, oxygen, hydrogen and carbon dioxide. Meanwhile, fart gas that smells like rotten eggs comes from hydrogen sulfide in small portions.
This smelly fart gas is produced by gut microbes that eat taurine. Even though they produce foul hydrogen sulfide gas, these bacteria protect humans from disease-causing organisms, aka pathogens such as Klebsiella and Salmonella. These findings were published by Huimin Ye and colleagues in the journal Nature Communications.
Farting Microbes Distasteful Disease Carriers
Microbes that produce smelly fart gas can apparently help ‘suffocate’ pathogens that survive with oxygen, such as Klebsiella. The method is to produce sufficient levels of foul-smelling hydrogen sulfide gas. The lack of oxygen in the surroundings makes it difficult Klebsiella difficult to colonize.
“Hydrogen sulfide can suppress the metabolism of some oxygen-dependent pathogens,” said Ye, quoted from the official website of the University of Vienna.
However, researchers underline that excessive levels of hydrogen sulfide also carry negative risks, such as intestinal inflammation and damage to the intestinal lining. For this reason, the finding of microbes that produce smelly fart gas is considered to be the basis for developing therapeutic interventions, for example for inflammatory bowel disease.
Eat Taurine
Researchers named the new H2S-producing microbe Bull-eating mice. Because, uniquely, this bacteria only eats taurine.
“The bacteria we describe have an unbalanced diet. They specialize in consuming taurine (in the human body),” said Alexander Loy, who led the study from the Center for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Sciences (CeMESS), University of Vienna.
Taurine is an essential amino acid that is synthesized in the human liver in small amounts. Humans get most of the taurine from food such as meat, milk and seafood. Taurine is beneficial for humans for healthy aging, preventing age-related diseases.
Loy explained, to get enough taurine in the intestines, Bull-eating mice need the help of other gut microbes so that taurine is released from bile acids. Bile acids containing taurine are produced in the liver.
The more fat humans eat, the more bile acids are released into the intestines so they can digest the fat. Therefore, bacterial activity in the intestine apparently also influences bile acid metabolism in the liver.
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2023-10-02 11:30:11
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