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.

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