Speaker 0:  for decades, medical textbooks claimed humans pass gas 14 times a day, but a new wearable sensor just proved that number is a total lie. we are looking at the fitbit for flatulence, and it reveals your gut as twice as active as your doctor thinks. the world's first objective fart tracker, a clip on electrochemical sensor for your underwear that tracks intestinal gas events in real time. early data from human flatus atlas study shows the average person has 32 events per day, shattering previous medical estimates. this kills reliance on patient self reporting, which is notoriously unreliable and creates hard data standard for diagnosing ibs, sibo, and food intolerance. what do you think about this, john?

Speaker 1:  i think this is great because there's so many people who suffer from ibs, from suffer from gut biome issues, from so many issues, and and your gut is essentially your second brain, which we've covered before. but i think this is great for treatment. so just to kind of, like the way that they used to measure flatulence, was relying on participants to self report gas episodes, or on brief invasive clinical tests that can't really capture what happens during everyday life. so obviously, these approaches are underestimate how much gas people actually pass. so this new smart underwear, changes this, and they use electrochemical sensors that attach discreetly to daily underwear and continuously detect hydrogen gas, which is a byproduct of gut bacteria fermenting food. and this happens throughout normal activities. so this will give researchers a real world continuous data stream rather than snapshots or unreliable memory. the other thing so just to talk about hydrogen. so hydrogen is useful as a marker because it's produced exclusively by gut microbiomes. meaning, the sensors aren't just counting events. they are directly tracking underlying microbial metabolism in the intestines. so this is functionally similar to how continuous glucose monitors, how they revolutionize diabetes care by replacing periodic finger prick checks with ongoing metabolic data. and like you said, using these sensors, they found on average about 32 times a day that people were passing gas, which is double what other literature estimated. but what they also found was there's a wide variation. some people pass gas as few as four times in a day, while others pass gas 59 times or more. so, which obviously, this challenges conventional notion that there's a single normal rate of flatulence. but it also speaks to a bigger issue. and this is something that is just starting to come to the surface now in in the last year or two, i would say, for me at least. and this is taking care of your gut microbiome. and so, this is great for two people. for two types of people. those who have issues and those who actually want to treat or or work on their gut microbiome. i'd wear this. what about you?

Speaker 0:  well, i guess it depends on the, like, what actual data you get. like, great. you know? i like to think of this as an emission test for your car. a mechanic, checks the exhaust to see how the engine is burning fuel. this sensor checks your exhaust to see exactly how your microbiome is breaking down carbohydrates as an example. if the reading is off, we know the engine. your gut needs tuning. and so if it was proactive enough to, you know, supplements, the right probiotics, the right, you know, foods i need to eat or whatever to fix the problems that you know? yeah. i would rather than it just reporting back that i am over flatulent than average people, and, you know, i need to look at that or what have you. i think, it was a study of only 19 healthy adults in the us. participants had no significant gastrointestinal diseases, ensuring the focus was on normal physiology. they continued to wear their normal day, continued to the normal diets and routines. they wore the clip on sensor on hours over the course of a week, waking hours. so, i don't know if it was 19 people. is that a long enough study?

Speaker 1:  yeah. i don't think so.

Speaker 0:  but it's

Speaker 1:  a good start.

Speaker 0:  right. the biggest shift, in gi diagnostics since, the capsule endoscopy c, we talked about the pill camera before. we're moving the subjective, symptom diaries to objective biometric logging. i always thought that we should have better toilets that do chemical analysis because that would probably give you a detailed pardon?

Speaker 1:  which we covered. right? see

Speaker 0:  well, they do a visual one, not a chemical one. no. and that the chemical analysis would then obviously be, the way to go and get all that stuff. but if we can get some of that through this electrical chemical sensing, great. and anything that actually helps. so i think that today's day and age, we don't know what's in half of what we're eating. people, can't sleep. their gut hurts all the time. you know, things are going on, and it'd be nice to have some idea that you're moving in the right direction, some guidance that it's this biome or that biome that you can actually do yourself versus having to go to all sorts of doctors and take tests and do all these things that may or may not end up helping.

Speaker 1:  yeah. exactly.

Speaker 0:  so, the sensor detects hydrogen, but hydrogen itself is odorless. the smell comes from sulfur compounds less than 1% of the volume, which means this device tracks activity, not stink. the study is officially called the human flatulence flatus atlas. while it sounds funny, atlas projects like the cancer genome atlas are actually scientific gold standard for mapping biological baselines. why hydrogen? because hydro humans' cells don't produce hydrogen. only bacteria do. if a sensor detects h two, it is a 100% confirmation of micro bile activity with zero noise from the host's body. mhmm. so we finally have hard data on one bodily function nobody wanted to talk about. and it turns out we're all twice as active as we thought. be honest in the chat. would you wear a fart tracker to get better health data, or is that too much information? drop a yes or no. we'd love to hear what you think.