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Lilly2 · Nov 02, 2019, 01:15 AM

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Originally Posted by rjdb

Flatulence is "carbon neutral". Plants take carbon out of the air to grow. You eat plants, you put the carbon back into the air when you fart.

Thank you @rjdb

I read this article about cows' farts, which got me to thinking about human farts: Scientists Underestimated How Bad Cow Farts Are

Maybe it's all hype, but us humans tend to be more apologetic to animals farting than humans farting, even though animals expel more gas.

I suppose that I've been depressed about my worsening IBS condition, which includes flatulence. I don't want to leave the house if I'm going to be a gas machine and experience embarrasment and others' disgust at my condition. I still have to get some medical tests and a double endoscopy done to figure out what is going on with my GI system, but until then, I thought to ask these questions.

Unfortunately, the world is concerned about human farts, too. It's not just stinky, but to them, it's toxic:

Methane isn’t just cow farts and other facts you didn’t know |

Do you contaminate your environment with harmful bacteria when you fart? — Quartz

After having searched for solutions and answers to some of my questions, I realized that my concerns are not unrealistic. There are reasons beyond why I'm afraid to mingle with people while I'm suffering from excessive flatulence and other GI issues at the moment. One of those reasons is being accused of pollution.

Now don't get me wrong. I am addicted to smoking cigarettes, and I will be working a program that will eventually help me to quit. Cigarette smoke does pollute, and it harms.

However, it would appear that cigarette smoke is more acceptable than human farts in some arenas.

Is this like an evolutionary response?

Also, I tried to be somewhat funny when creating this post. I'm not a comedian, so I don't really know how to execute jokes too well.

That said, some of our medical conditions do affect our psychological and psychosocial conditions. Depression and anxiety come to mind, as do isolation and social embarrassment.

I'm not sure how valid these articles on farts are, but if there is a faint whiff of truth to their hypotheses, then my poor gassy condition means that either I'm responsible for creating my own GI issue through poor dietary habits, or that many factors are responsible (not just me alone) for the flatulence that is related to IBS, for which IBS is also related to PTSD, for which PTSD is related to some offender or source that traumatized flatulence sufferers long before flatulence became an issue. Maybe trauma doesn't cause flatulence, but there appears to be a domino-effect here.

When I consider ACE studies (studies on adverse childhood experience), I think about the quality of life factors. I also wonder if they've ever attempted to do studies on ALE, or "adverse lifetime experience," because not everyone has experience an ACE, but throughout our lifetime, many could have experienced an ALE (including those who've experienced one or more ACEs). I'm wondering if flatulence would be connected with IBS in those cases related to ALEs (including adulthood traumas). Again, there's no causal link between trauma and farting, but there may be a chain reaction somewhere.

ACE and other related studies' outcomes bring about doom-like feelings for me. I want my life to be healthier, not stinky. There's got to be solutions to improve our quality of life, despite scientific predictions. There's got to be solutions beyond Beano to help with the source of our flatulence.

I'm not asking for flatulence tolerance here, but rather, I'm asking for solutions like more awareness and preventative measures. If I only knew then what I know now, I'd probably not be so gassy today, or isolated.