There are many downsides to the ever-rising popularity of TikTok, but one definite benefit is the fact that health professionals are able to share important medical information with the public directly and in a way they’ll actually engage with. Important medical information like the potential impact of Brazilian waxes on the lethality of your farts.

Neda, a nurse practitioner, uploaded a video to TikTok that blew a lot of people’s minds. In the video, she tells viewers, “Understand that if you get a Brazilian bikini wax, you may be subjected to having very loud farts that you didn’t expect, especially if you’re of Persian, Arab or Italian descent and have been used to having a hairy booty hole.”

@hijabiluscious #brazilianwax #nursepractitioner ♬ original sound - Neda

I understand the horror you may be feeling right about now, but please bear with me, as there’s more. Neda continues, “The hair around the booty hole acts as a muffler for them farts; the hair around the booty hole allows for that air to be distributed nicely and slowly, and just like a car without a muffler, that fart is gonna be really loud without that hair around the booty hole.” Her advice for people determined to get Brazilian waxes despite this risk is to stop eating fibrous foods or somehow condition your butt cheeks to let out farts slowly.

Commenters were torn between feelings of terror and amusement. One woman commented, “Jokes on you, I am in fact not used to farting quietly,” while someone over on Reddit suggested, “One can just scream while passing wind.” Another helpful suggestion from a self-described “expert farter” is to perform a “gentlemanly lift of the preferred cheek.”

@thedollhousenyc #fyp #waxing ♬ original sound - TheDollhouseNYC

Commenters who have undergone such waxes or performed them in their line of work confirmed what Neda was saying; others shared different things they’d noticed since getting waxed, like the fact that the human body’s natural hair absorbs sweat, and without it, they’re constantly covered in perspiration.

Permanently sweaty and capable of unleashing earth-shattering farts? Are we sure Brazilians are even worth all of that suffering?