Fatherly: If you’re in a new relationship with a person who still thinks you’re perfect and wonderful and never, ever smelly, it can be mortifying the first time you let some gas slip in their presence. Especially if you ate some brussels sprouts for dinner. Yikes. Luckily, though, science and psychology are coming to your aid – because farting in front of your significant other is actually a good thing. First of all, it lets the other person know that you’re healthy.
A person who does not fart at all isn’t eating much aside from refined sugars, so if you’re letting them rip, at least he/she knows you take eating your vegetables seriously.

Second, a study a few years back found that the chemical compound called AP39, linked to hydrogen sulfide (which leads to stinky toots), is good for cells. It is true that most scientists will stop short of telling you it’s good for you – but it’s not going to harm you, certainly.