{"id":105074,"date":"2018-01-16T14:29:34","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T14:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=105074"},"modified":"2025-07-01T23:41:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T06:41:32","slug":"swallow-this-to-track-your-farts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/swallow-this-to-track-your-farts\/","title":{"rendered":"Swallow this to track your farts"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Scientists and medics are increasingly using sensors and probes you swallow<\/b> to find out more about what goes on<\/b> \u2013 and goes wrong \u2013 under the hood.<\/p>\n

Pressure readings, acidity, and medication activity can already be monitored, so it was only a matter of time before a gadget <\/b>was invented that monitors your thunder down under<\/b>.<\/p>\n

Yes, swallow this vitamin pill-sized gizmo<\/a> and it will travel down the Hersey Highway to record your gut gas<\/b>. (Or, in adult terms, the capsule gathers readings on oxygen, hydrogen and carbon dioxide in your alimentary canal.)<\/p>\n

The idea is to see how different diets can affect your level of internal windiness<\/b> \u2013 and its health implications. But we\u2019re just glad it gives us the opportunity to write about bottom burps<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Whereas some gases are polluting the planet, scientists\u00a0have come up with a vitamin pill-sized gizmo to monitor ours. Curious to see what\u2019s going on down under?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Scientists and medics are increasingly using sensors and probes you swallow to find out more about what goes on \u2013 and goes wrong \u2013 under the hood. Pressure readings, acidity, and medication activity can already be monitored, so it was only a matter of time before a gadget was invented that monitors your thunder down … Continue reading “Swallow this to track your farts”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2040,"featured_media":105286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[1032,1028],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-105074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-gadgets","tag-health"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2040"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328352,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105074\/revisions\/328352"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105074"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=105074"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=105074"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=105074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}