# Doctor Doesn't Want Me Taking Sulfur Supplements

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-doesnt-want-me-taking-sulfur-supplements/920984>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 19, 2020, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-doesnt-want-me-taking-sulfur-supplements/920984 "2020-09-19T06:03:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2020, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-doesnt-want-me-taking-sulfur-supplements/920984/21 "2020-09-20T14:38:27Z")

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> [@Jim\_B](#):
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> @panache45 Stupid thread? Nonsense. **I think I’m the first person to ask this question.** 🙂

Yes, and there’s a reason for that.

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**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2020, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-doesnt-want-me-taking-sulfur-supplements/920984/22 "2020-09-20T21:42:37Z")

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This topic brought to mind a couple of Terry Pratchett’s fictional characters who, among other laughable “medicinal” habits, dusted their socks with sulfur. I don’t mean disrespect to the OP, but I wonder if **Jim\_B** read those books and thought, “What a great idea!”

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**Author:** ![hibernicus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hibernicus/32/2802_2.png) [@hibernicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hibernicus)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2020, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-doesnt-want-me-taking-sulfur-supplements/920984/23 "2020-09-20T23:12:29Z")

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When I was a child, I had a friend who had “flowers of sulphur” (i.e. a yellow powder of elemental sulphur) sprinkled on his breakfast cereal every morning. I don’t know exactly why but it seems his mother thought it was beneficial. I haven’t thought about that for 35 years until I read this thread.

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**Author:** ![Brayne\_Ded](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Brayne\_Ded](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brayne_Ded)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2020, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-doesnt-want-me-taking-sulfur-supplements/920984/24 "2020-09-21T09:30:56Z")

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[Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)[Charter Member](https://boards.straightdope.com/g/Charter_Member)

([Doctor Doesn't Want Me Taking Sulfur Supplements - #8 by Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-doesnt-want-me-taking-sulfur-supplements/920984/8))

> Would a sulfur supplement enhance the stench of farts? \<

Most likely. Eating a few hard-boiled eggs is a sure way to produce a real stinker. And cabbage is, well notorious.

Drinking water that has a high proportion of sulfur (usually as hydrogen sulfide, H2S) will really loosen you up. This applies to many spa waters.

As for a sulfur deficiency, I have never heard of such a thing.

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