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I recently heard about Russian cosmonauts eating a lot of dill to counteract farting. It's apparently called a carminative, and seaweed is a carminative too.
by pbiggar 8y ago
I recently heard about Russian cosmonauts eating a lot of dill to counteract farting. It's apparently called a carminative, and seaweed is a carminative too.
- askvictor 8y agoInteresting, but I believe that methane emissions from cows are burps rather than farts, and there's a lot more fermentation going on in a cow's rumen than in our guts, so there might be some other mechanism at play here. Or perhaps not.
- jammi 8y agoOTOH, aren't farts just unreleased burps that passed into the intestines.
- askvictor 8y agoI think in humans burps are a release of swallowed air, while farts are gasses produced by fermentation in the intestines. Ruminants OTOH have a fermentation chamber (rumen) as the first part of their digestive system (their first 'stomach'). Other animals have different fermentation strategies.
- ItsMe000001 8y agoHuman burps are air that you swallowed, or from CO2 from either drinks or produced when stomach acid mixes with bicarbonate. That CO2 does not necessarily has to come out as a burp, it can also pass into the blood stream. We don't have a rumen like cows do, where bacteria start breaking down the food. Our stomachs are mostly free of bacteria (except for things like helicobacter pylori). All our bacteria-activity is in the large intestine. A lot of the gases are absorbed and exhaled through the lungs, not all of it has to come out through the rectum. Much better explanation and a lot more details: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK417/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK417/
- martin-adams 8y agoIf that were the case, I would certainly not want to burp so near my nose.
- RyJones 8y agoI need more dill in my life! After weight lots surgery, any carbohydrates give me the most painful gas.
- scruple 8y ago>I need more dill in my life! Yeah, sure, _until you don't_. Bear in mind that it's essentially an invasive weed if you have a backyard garden. Be careful if you attempt to grow it at home, it might take over.
- baldeagle 8y agoEastern swallow tails will take care of almost any dill problem you have. They'll do a number of fennel too, if it is there. Things I've learned hacking in the garden.
- asciimo 8y agoI love finding gold like this deep in a thread.
- jessaustin 8y agoI find cilantro completely outcompetes dill.
- scruple 8y agoI'll have to give that a try, thanks!
- petre 8y agoMaybe that's why cabbage and cheese pies are made with dill in Russia and Eastern Europe.