Just some little known facts regarding asparagus' effect on pee that you can impress your friends with.
There are genes that allow a human to:
cause pee to stink with odor of asparagus (I have that gene and even if I eat one stalk within 20 minutes my pee has intense asparagus odor. The odor is gone after 3rd pee. The OR2M7 gene controls this. (I have this gene, so does my kid)
cause pee not to stink of asparagus odor. (my SO says her pee does not have the odor)
cause olfactory nerves not to smell odor of asparagus in pee. So its possible your pee stinks but unless someone tells you you will not know it.
cause olfactory nerves to smell asparagus odor in pee. (me, my SO and my kid )
So there are 4 permutations:
pee stink, no smell it
pee stink, smell it
pee no stink, no smell it
pee, no stink, no smell it
So if your pee doesn't stink of asparagus and you cant smell the odor you will not get the joke of post #1390 — until now
Ps. I have found that people at a party you may be attending where asparagus is served do not appreciate you spouting off these facts. Go figure.
There are genes that allow a human to:
cause pee to stink with odor of asparagus (I have that gene and even if I eat one stalk within 20 minutes my pee has intense asparagus odor. The odor is gone after 3rd pee. The OR2M7 gene controls this. (I have this gene, so does my kid)
cause pee not to stink of asparagus odor. (my SO says her pee does not have the odor)
cause olfactory nerves not to smell odor of asparagus in pee. So its possible your pee stinks but unless someone tells you you will not know it.
cause olfactory nerves to smell asparagus odor in pee. (me, my SO and my kid )
So there are 4 permutations:
pee stink, no smell it
pee stink, smell it
pee no stink, no smell it
pee, no stink, no smell it
So if your pee doesn't stink of asparagus and you cant smell the odor you will not get the joke of post #1390 — until now
Ps. I have found that people at a party you may be attending where asparagus is served do not appreciate you spouting off these facts. Go figure.