Because farts are funny (and this will have to do until I go through some more old magazines and get a bunch of Photo Funnies scanned)
I started to write about this TWO YEARS AGO! At the time the headlines were full of this story:
“When a nerve fires, it releases a bit of neurotransmitter. Then it fires again, very quickly, and releases more of the neurotransmitter, which is always in reserve and at the ready in large storage pools called vesicles. However, gasses can’t be stored; they diffuse. So every time there’s a nerve impulse, an enzyme must be activated to make it,” he says.
So, if you want to lower that blood pressure... well, you can probably see where this is going although I have to say to I have done empirical studies in the ensuing years and as yet have no evidence that this is in fact true!