Smart underwear tracking flatulence may give new clues about digestive health | CNN
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Smart underwear that tracks flatulence is giving scientists a new way to study farts — and potentially gain insight into gut health and disease, researchers say.

Everyone farts. But not everyone tracks their farts.

Now, smart underwear is making a case for paying closer attention to what comes out of your body. Its creators said they hope that tracking flatulence could eventually give researchers new insight into digestive health — and how a person’s farts offer clues about what’s happening in the gut.

Brantley Hall, the brains behind the smart underwear and an associate professor at the University of Maryland’s department of cell biology and molecular genetics, said the team’s “ultimate mission is to help people eat high-fiber diets comfortably with low intestinal gas.”

  • olejellylegs@lemmy.zip
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    11 hours ago

    So they’re saying they want to guide folks to diets with lower farting by… telling folks when and how often they fart?

    Like you don’t know that already? and who the fuck is living this sad life that needs AI drawers to strava their ass???

    Am I living under a rock such that as it turns out most people have uncontrollable flatulence running rampant to the point we need medically enhanced AI? And they can’t tell nor track how often they pass gas???

    Is farting such a necessary thing that folks can’t live their daily life without AI intervention? Am I living on some parallel earth where my life isn’t focused on farting gas like a Junji Ito comic?

    Is the world mostly folks who are about to explode from gas at any given moment?