Ellie raises TMAU awareness in a UK national paper

Ellie James has done much to raise awareness of trimethylaminuria (TMAU). She has done previous media items, and now has kindly and bravely volunteered for an article in the UK national newspaper, the Daily Mirror.

The article can be read here : Ellie talks about TMAU in The Daily Mirror

My view on TMAU
Personally I think TMAU may only explain 'fish malodor', as trimethylamine is said to smell of rotting fish. However the enzyme that oxidizes trimethylamine (flavin mono-oxygenase 3 (FMO3)) oxidizes 1,000's of sulfides and amines in the body, so I think 'fecal-gas-unpleasant malodors' circulating systemically in humans may be due to sulfides and amines most likely to use FMO3 as their route of oxidising. And so a  FMO3 enzyme problem (either genetic or overload or both) and raising awareness of TMAU will still be likely to benefit what may be the real disorder people with many unpleasant metabolic malodors may have, FMO3 substrate malodors.

By sysbodyodor

fmo3, media, systemic malodor syndrome, tmau

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