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It might even look like it’s the macharia. After all, many men turn this strange biological need into fun. But there is actually no difference in the digestive system of the two sexes. “What happens is that, for educational reasons, women generally do not eliminate flatus in public, while men do it even for sport, since adolescence”, says gastroenterologist Arnaldo Ganc, from Hospital Albert Einstein, in São Paulo. Female discretion is kind of cool, as long as it doesn’t mean repressing farts too much. If they don’t come out, the accumulated gas can cause pain, cramps, and bloating. The problem is that there is a nose to withstand so much gaseous production! An adult produces an average of 1 liter of gas daily, eliminated in up to 20 farts. Have you never counted so many in a single day? So they are probably sneaking out, without you noticing, in your sleep. The curious thing is that most of the gas released by the rear is swallowed during meals or when drinking carbonated drinks. The part produced by bacteria that act during digestion represents only 1% of the amount eliminated. The hard part is that this is a dangerously smelly minority. The smelliest of all gases is hydrogen sulfide, produced by digesting protein-rich foods like meat and eggs. Another “powerful” raw material is beans, which generate a type of sugar that is difficult to digest and therefore ends up fermenting in the body. Very fibrous foods (like vegetables) or rich in carbohydrates (like pasta) even produce more gases than the examples above, but they have the great advantage of being “harmless” – that is, they give rise to those noisy shots (exactly due to excess gas) , but without so much smell. A great relief for the atmosphere…