If Your Systolic Stinks, "Rotten Egg" Gas May be Why
Thursday, October 23, 2008 - 13:21
in Health & Medicine
Anyone with a nose knows the rotten-egg odor of hydrogen sulfide, a gas generated by bacteria living in the human colon. Now an international team of scientists has discovered that cells inside the blood vessels of mice -- as well as in people, no doubt -- naturally make the gassy stuff, and that it controls blood pressure.