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Re:Detecting Methane from Miles Away by pjc50 on Monday April 09, 2018 @08:38AM (#16792447)
Tried to find a counter-citation for this, and the best I could do was " A total of 3481 different VOCs [volatile organic compounds] were observed: 1753 with positive alveolar gradients, 1728 with negative alveolar gradients."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10410929

It turns out that humans exhale all kinds of things.

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Re:Detecting Methane from Miles Away by TheSpiceIsLife on Monday April 09, 2018 @08:52AM (#16792533)
The lungs are an excretory organ. Sort of by accident as any volatile substance will naturally waft away due to the nature of the gas exchange medium, but they do alleviate some of the burden of the liver > gallbladder > bowels and / or liver > kidney processes.
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