The presence of obsessions or compulsions, or both, are what distinguishes obsessive-compulsive disorder from other conditions. The obsessions or compulsions cause marked distress, are time-consuming, and interfere with a person's normal functioning.
(1989) concluded that everyone excretes stinky compounds in their urine after eating asparagus, and the only variation is in ability to smell them. Other papers using chemical tests and carefully controlled smelling tests show that there is variation in excretion of sulfur compounds in urine after eating asparagus.
Some people can smell asparagus in their urine and others canât. It all depends on your genes. Scientists think the funny smell in your urine after eating asparagus is likely a byproduct (a metabolite) of digesting the aptly named asparagusic acid, a molecule found only in asparagus. The lab tested for a variant in the sequence near the OR2M7 .