Comment on Why do old people's farts smell either like decomposition or sickly-sweet?

a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

The “Death” smell is normally associated with an inefficient digestion, which causes amino acids to break down - relevant ist especially cysteine, which contains Sulfur and therefore smells intensive. The “sweeter” smell can have multiple reasons, but having an disturbed gut microbiome is the most likely cause.

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