The smell of your farts could give you a clue into the types of gases your gut is producing, and what that says about your ...

Medically reviewed by Qin Rao, MD Key Takeaways Eating high-fiber foods like beans and cabbage can make your farts smell bad.Food intolerances, such as lactose intolerance, can cause smelly ...

What your farts say about your health. Another awkward-but-true thing is we all love the smell of our own farts. Back in 2014 ...

Holding in a fart once in a while is not a problem. If it becomes a habit, though, it may lead to pain, bloating, or discomfort. Finding an appropriate place and time to release the gas is a healthier ...

These are phrases you may hear in a kindergarten classroom or on the playground, typically accompanied by laughter and giggles from young children. For adults, however, this delight in the ...

Everybody farts. In fact, the average person farts about 14 times a day with an average volume of one-half liter of gas per day, says Michael Rice, M.D., gastroenterologist at the University of ...

Ask the Poop Doctor is a new column from Dr. Sameer Islam, MD, a Texas-based gastroenterologist who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. Here, he sheds ...

Go ahead and get a good whiff of your own farts — scientists say it could help guard against Alzheimer’s. Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine have found that hydrogen sulfide — the rotten ...

A fart a day keeps the doctor away. Breaking wind while in the company of others might seem like the height of rudeness — it was even ranked one of the worst house guest behaviors by a UK survey — but ...

This could stink if this were the case. Perhaps you got wind of the question that Norman Swan asked on a recent Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) podcast: can farts transmit the COVID-19 ...

You talk period cramps and how you’re PMS-ing with friends. Chances are you’ve even bonded with a random stranger in a public restroom over the woes of forgetting to stash a menstrual product in your ...